The Times of India 04.03.2013
Three new water reservoirs to cut shortage, improve quality
NOIDA: The Noida Authority is set to commission three new water reservoirs by June this year to significantly reduce woes of residents.
The reservoirs, located in Sectors 116 and 117 and built at a total cost of around Rs 174 crore, will be used to store Ganga water. Laying down pipelines linking these reservoirs with the Pratap Vihar water treatment plant will be completed in a month.
Residents will soon be supplied more Ganga water which will reduce the quality of hardness in potable water supplied to the city. Authority officials said that work on the three reservoirs has already been completed and simultaneously pipelines are being laid to get Ganga water from the treatment plant. "In a little over a month, work on laying the pipelines will be completed. The Authority will begin trial operations in May," said an official.
The reservoirs have capacities in the range of 44,000 to 55,000 kilolitres each. As per targets set by the Noida Authority, the net water demand in the city is set to reach 215 million litres per day (MLD) by 2015.
However, with the commissioning of these three reservoirs, over 240 MLD of Ganga water would be at the disposal of the Authority.
"Plans are afoot to supply purified Ganga water alone to residents instead of mixing it with groundwater as has been the practice for many years," added the official. In order to beat the hardness of groundwater in the city, the Noida Authority has been supplying potable water to residents by mixing groundwater with Ganga water.
The reservoirs, located in Sectors 116 and 117 and built at a total cost of around Rs 174 crore, will be used to store Ganga water. Laying down pipelines linking these reservoirs with the Pratap Vihar water treatment plant will be completed in a month.
Residents will soon be supplied more Ganga water which will reduce the quality of hardness in potable water supplied to the city. Authority officials said that work on the three reservoirs has already been completed and simultaneously pipelines are being laid to get Ganga water from the treatment plant. "In a little over a month, work on laying the pipelines will be completed. The Authority will begin trial operations in May," said an official.
The reservoirs have capacities in the range of 44,000 to 55,000 kilolitres each. As per targets set by the Noida Authority, the net water demand in the city is set to reach 215 million litres per day (MLD) by 2015.
However, with the commissioning of these three reservoirs, over 240 MLD of Ganga water would be at the disposal of the Authority.
"Plans are afoot to supply purified Ganga water alone to residents instead of mixing it with groundwater as has been the practice for many years," added the official. In order to beat the hardness of groundwater in the city, the Noida Authority has been supplying potable water to residents by mixing groundwater with Ganga water.
