Safeguarding Water resources in INdia with Green and Sustainable technologies

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The SWINGS consortium has established an optimal methodology for nutrient and energy recovery from wastewater (WW) at the same time as making the water safe for reuse, all in a manner conducible to rural communities in developing countries, with India as the concrete example. In particular, the SWINGS project has enlisted already optimized municipal WW treatment concepts and combine "green" and sustainable technologies. The result will be enhances water recycling and re-use, decreased energy consumption, and production of useful by-products from the process as secondary resources. Thus, treated WW will be transformed to soil enrichment resource, to irrigation water, to aquaculture farm feed, via sustainable sanitation that safeguards the local drinking water supply in India.
Pilot plants have been designed and constructed in India that combine the treatment methods mentioned above, after which the new systems have been established in steady-state operation, and then, the AD-CW configurations optimized. Systems for disinfection of the effluent have been implemented and on-line monitoring of pathogen load attempted. Finally, life cycle assessment of several treatment configurations has been used to develop a decision support system for future selection of sustainable and efficient treatment technologies in developing countries like India.


**This project has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 308502.

• Sectors: Public works, Water treatment
• Financing programme: 7TH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME FUNDED EUROPEAN RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT
• R&D&i: Life cycle assessment. Carbon footprint., Optical technologies for monitoring and control of natural resources, Urban and industrial wastewater treatment
• Partners: AARHUS UNIVERSITY, AUTARCON, SOLARSPRING (SSP), KILIAN WATER ApS, UPC, Irstea, LIMNOS, DHI, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), ICEE, University of Kalyani, Centre for Built Environment (CBE), Indira Gandhi National Tribal University (IGNTU), Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), AARVEE Associates, UrbanPlan Consulting & Engineering Pvt. Ltd. (UPPL), Kalyani Shine India (KSI), UPJN, Aligarh Nagar Nigam (ANN)
• Acronym: SWINGS
• Ambit: International
• Web: http://swingsproject.aimen.es