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The treated waste water from the effluent treatment plant will cater to the
following :
a.
Recycled water for process use within the steel plant.
b.
Recycled water for Landscaping and Raw material handling.
c.
Treated water for disposal to meet disposal quality standards.
The entire system is designed in such a way so as to utilize 98% of raw water.
Many of the industries are gradually shifting towards recycling of raw water.
Unfortunately majority medium and small scale industries are lagging behind.
They are even discharging waste water even without proper treatment.
All major hotels in India are recycling water. Housing compendium are also
trying to utilize waste water at least for toilets and cloth washing. In the long run
all major housing compendiums will be required the recycle waste water, even
for drinking water like advanced countries.
Competing Water Users :
On a global scale, average water use is 69% in Agriculture, 23% in Industry, 8%
in domestic sectors, but in African countries 88% of water is used for
Agriculture alone. In India, agriculture consumes nearly 85%, the balance being
used for industrial and domestic sectors. In advanced European countries, need
in the industrial sector is 54%, agriculture 33% and domestic 13%. Besides
agriculture, competing users of water are vastly growing rural population,
emerging big cities with housing compendium, hydel power generation, river
flushing and navigation, emerging industrial revolution in the developing
countries. Water demand and its management will thus be critical in the present
century.
Major Challenging Issues :
Major challenging issues in the next decades are :-
a)
Water crisis Vs. Increased Demand
b)
Water pricing mechanism and social impact.
