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Tuesday, Oct 05, 2004
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Industry & Economy
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Water De-fluorination plant installed in Warangal Our Bureau
Hyderabad , Oct. 4 TATA Projects and the Federation of Andhra Pradesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Fapcci) have installed a de-fluorination plant with a capacity of 24,000 litres in Gangadevipalli village in Warangal district. The plant can provide water with fluoride content well within permissible limits. It works on a reverse osmosis process and uses membranes and filters to remove harmful fluorides from drinking water. Several districts including Warangal in Andhra Pradesh are affected by groundwater contamination due to fluorides. The plant, which will be inaugurated on Tuesday, is expected to produce clean potable water at 5 paise per litre. The total requirement of drinking water per day for the village (which has a population of 1,180) is estimated to be around 5,000 litres, which works out to an average of 20 litres per house, according to a press release from Fapcci. The villagers have formed a `woman committee' and have decided that 20 litres would be given per house per day for Re 1. Thus, every month a household will pay Rs 30, which will be adequate to maintain the plant. The additional production of water will be sold to neighbouring villages at 20 paise per litre, which in turn will be used to build a village development fund. Fapcci will install another plant in the most fluoride affected village of Nalgonda district. Fapcci hopes the plant will be a model that can be replicated by the Government. It is in the process of ascertaining information on the fluoride-affected areas in each district, the release said.
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