Rainwater harvesting work given to a private company in Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad, 17 December 2024
Privatization of Veena water in Ahmedabad has started with rainwater. Now it may be that like Adani Gas, a private company will provide tap water.
To collect rainwater in Ahmedabad, rainwater will be collected in the property of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation. Its contract has been given to Apollo Screens Private Limited.
Apart from health centers, water will be collected in a total of 250 properties including water distribution stations. For which Rs. 5 crore 32 lakh rupees will be spent. Behind a well Rs. 2 lakh 15 thousand will be spent.
Ward office, divisional office, hospital, drainage pumping station to collect rainwater coming on the roof will be given operation and maintenance facility for five years.
Per unit Rs. 1 lakh 33 thousand will be spent. The water will be cleaned through filters and stored in bore or its water tanks.
Apollo Creases Company
Apollo Creases Company is an engineering company established in 2013 by Apollo Group.
The company is located in Chhatral. manufactures welded wedge wire screens.
Welded wedge wire screens are used in water wells, sub-surface water extraction, oil and gas sand control, mineral processing applications for liquids, solids separation as well as various water, raw water and many other industrial applications. Water management for industry from source to treatment. Its equipment is used for drinking water, rainwater harvesting, irrigation wells, dams, drains below.
What happened to the Chief Minister’s announcement?
On August 2, 2024, Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel asked the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation to pay Rs. 144 crores were given.
Public participation scheme as per 70:20:10 in private society
A total of 7497 applications were received for rainwater harvesting works from 3180 societies in the North West Zone of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, 1617 in South West Zone and 2500 societies in West Zone.
In the first proposal of Rs 206.16 crore from the government, Rs 144.32 crore was allocated as per 70 percent assistance from the state government.
1 thousand schools
Rainwater harvesting project completed in 1 thousand government schools.
It was claimed 5 years ago that this is the country’s first project of rainwater harvesting in government schools of Vadodara district.
This is a project started by the state government from 2018. It was claimed that 40 thousand 628 lakh cubic feet of water was collected in the first 3 years.
It was claimed that 10 desalination plants have been installed to make sea water drinkable, purifying and bringing back dirty water to towns and cities and using it for industry and agriculture.
Rainwater harvesting in 1 thousand houses of government primary and secondary schools in Vadodara district. Project worth Rs 6 crore. 10 crore liters of water was to be saved every year. Funds from CSR funds, government grants, District Mineral Foundation Fund were used in the project.
A tradition of Ahmedabad
Out of 10 thousand houses surveyed in Polo, Ahmedabad, 1500 had underground tanks for monsoon water. Water samples from ten tanks were tested and the water was found to be drinkable. In the past, every house in Ahmedabad had such tanks. In which 15 percent were doing stitching at home in 2021. Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation had decided to store 25 lakh liters of water per year by building 25 thousand liter tanks in the millennium. That too has gone into the water.
The scheme of percolation wells is not just a matter of water
The state government has made a special provision in GDCR for rainwater harvesting. According to this provision, 100 to 300 square feet of space is the standard for rainwater harvesting at small construction sites.
AUDA
In the year 2002, AUDA implemented the rule making percolation wells mandatory in houses with an area of 1500 square meters.
Garden
A few years ago, percolation wells were constructed in gardens to collect water. In which water did not come anywhere for a year. Now 300 gardens are of no use. They only occupy space.
Scheme to connect lakes
45 ponds were connected to each other to flow rainwater from one pond to another. Crores were spent but nothing was achieved. People’s money was wasted.
Salt in water
In Ahmedabad, the salinity level in borewell water of Piplaj in 2018-19 was 2096. The pH value was 8.20. In Vatva GIDC, the salinity and pH of 1370 to 1928 was 7.59. Which was more than the prescribed dose.
A private company
In the state of Gujarat, FMC India’s Panoli harvests more than 2,500 KL of rainwater annually during monsoon. 3,000 square meter area of roof top is filled and filtered with rainwater. (Google translation from Gujarati)