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Community-based Water Resource
Management with Emphasis on Natural Water Quality
Improvement and Resource Recovery (XIM)
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Implementing Organization:
Xavier Institute of Management & the
Central Institute of Fresh Water Aquaculture,
Bhubaneshwar. |
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Start and End Date: November
2000 – November 2005. |
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Fishing
in Sewage Water
Most of our cities and towns do
not have a complete and regular sewerage
system to collect wastewater. Wherever
sewer lines exist, they are not optimally
functional due to lack of maintenance
and care.
Therefore, a new approach to urban wastewater
management is necessary. In the last few
years, natural systems (ecosystems) of
urban wastewater management (where reuse
of treated effluent or ground water recharge
is intended) are finding more and more
acceptance. The choice of appropriate
natural ecosystems for wastewater management
is necessarily location
specific.
Natural ecosystems are nonmechanised,
cost-effective, simple, reliable and easy
to design, build and maintain. Wastewater
management by natural systems is mostly
decentralised and costeffective. In many
cases, they are resource recovering. In
short, they are sustainable systems.
Project WATER is an attempt at application
of natural system in the management of
wastewater, based on a system of duckweed
and fishponds called ASTP (Aquaculturebased
Sewage Treatment Plant) developed on a
pilot scale by CIFA, Bhubaneswar.
Prof. Arunabha Majumder, AIIH & PH,
Kolkata and Dr. P K Jha, Sulabh International,
New Delhi conducted the mid-term evaluation
of the project in October 2004. The overall
performance of the project was described
as “very good”.
Progress
this year
All the civil construction activities
have been completed in all the sites except
Chandrasekharpur
site. Vani Vihar wetland at drain No.
4 was developed to treat around 5 MLD
of wastewater. A park adjacent to the
treatment site has been developed for
the public. BDA–Nicco Park at drain No.
10 has been designed to treat around 3.5
MLD of wastewater, while Laxmi Sagar Lake
adjacent to drain No. 5 has been developed
to treat around 2.5 MLD of wastewater.
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In
the wetland in Keshora village
beyond BMC in Bhubaneswar block
fish ponds have been constructed
to introduce fresh water aquaculture
through community participation.
Similar fish ponds have been constructed
at Rasulgarh wetland area.
Routine sampling and wastewater
analysis was carried out at all
the sites. More than one lakh
fish seeds have been released
in the fish ponds. About 20 tonnes
of fish has been harvested from
Laxmisagar, Vani Vihar and Nicco
Park sites last year. |
A number of social development programmes
have been undertaken under the project
for the stakeholders to create awareness
about environment, water, sanitation and
health and hygiene. Twenty-five women
SHGs have been formed.
Workshop was held to disseminate information
about biological treatment of waste water
gained
from the ongoing project. Project Water
is planning to conduct similar workshops
for other neighbouring states of Andhra
Pradesh and Jharkhand.
Project Water has covered 25 schools in
Bhubaneswar city and trained 49 teachers
on “Understanding Water & Sanitation”
in two phases as a part of School Environment
Awareness Programme. Similar workshops
will be conducted for the remaining schools
in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack.
Three community sites, namely Keshora,
Rasulgarh and Laxmisagar have been handed
over to the respective communities for
future maintenance and supervision. Modalities
are being worked
out for the transfer of Vani Vihar and
BDA-Nicco Park sites to respective organisations
shortly.
A
site at Puri will be taken up
in the second phase of the Project.
The Project involves renovation
and development of Atharanala
wetland through biological methods
at the entrance of Puri.
There is a good amalgamation of
sustainable technology and community
participation under the
project. Although the technology
of wastewater through duckweed
with its economic return in terms
of pisciculture has been demonstrated
earlier in India by some institutions,
this project is the first of |
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kind to be implemented at such a scale
with community involvement.
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