Periodic Reporting for period 2 - PAVITRA GANGA (Unlocking wastewater treatment, water re-use and resource recovery opportunities for urban and peri-urban areas in India)
Período documentado: 2020-08-01 hasta 2022-01-31
"WP2 Governance, stakeholder engagement and policy support" has been fully active despite the COVID 19 restrictions by reverting to on-line group meetings and bilateral meetings with key stakeholders in the two case areas. This has been far from ideal, but it has meant that the Project has been able to engage successfully with stakeholders to enable the social network and stakeholder analyses to be carried out. In addition a peer-reviewed article was submitted and published in the open-access journal Resources, Conservation & Recycling, Elsevier: "Perceived drivers and barriers in the governance of wastewater treatment and reuse in India: Insights from a two-round Delphi study" (doi: Https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2022.106285). "WP3 Treatment and recovery technologies" has been fully active, when it was possible. All technology providers had started up the laboratory work in Europe and at IIT Kanpur during the First Reporting Period, but during the Second Reporting Period the work was hampered by successive cycles of restrictions and lifted restrictions to laboratories and access to wastewater. Despite this, the researchers have been steadfast in restarting laboratory experiments, when necessary, to make progress. The main work moving forwards for WP3 is to do further laboratory testing to support the work of the piloting (WP5) – it is expected therefore that once the pilots are up and running that a series of optimising tests at the laboratory will be required to direct adjustments to the pilots during the Third Reporting Period. WP4 Water monitoring, modelling and control has been fully active, when it was possible, focusing on the regional water balance modelling and scenario assessments and starting up the spatial monitoring using mobile sensors. The next modelling steps will be to include Regional Climate Change scenarios to complement the other scenarios already established. A demonstration of citizen based, participatory monitoring of basic water quality parameters in villages has been planned to take place in March 2022 at three villages close to Kanpur – two villages receiving partially treated wastewater for irrigation and a control village not irrigating with partially treated wastewater. WP5 On-site piloting and performance evaluation has been fully active, when it was possible, to prepare the innovation sites to receive the technologies, designing and procuring the pilot technologies from service providers, assessing the water characterisation of the raw water (at New Delhi and Kanpur) and the treated effluent (at Kanpur) and establishing the analytical protocols. The innovation sites are now ready to receive the pilots that have been procured. The expectation is that the pilots will be up and running by April / May 2022. The analytical protocols were already established for standard water quality measurements and heavy metals. During the Second Reporting Period progress has been made to establish the analytical protocols for micro organic pollutants (i.e. use of the LC/MS equipment) – although this is not completely ready. W7 EU-India Business Platform has been fully active, when it was possible. The proposed road map to exploit the wastewater treatment, water reuse and resource recovery opportunities in Kanpur (India) has been prepared and will be presented at a face to face meeting with the Kanpur Jal Nigam in June 2022 after which it will be made public on the Pavitra Ganga website.