After 42 years since its launch, the Karichal Water Supply Scheme has finally started distributing treated drinking water.<\/p>\n
The project was launched in 1971 by the\u00a0 Kerala Water Authority to provide drinking water in areas perennially deprived of drinking water \u2014Trivandrum city\u2019s coastal belt comprising areas like Kanjiramkulam, Karumkulam, Poovar, and Puthiyathura.<\/p>\n
However, the project did not have a water treatment plant and the quality of water supplied through the scheme did not quite meet the expected standards. Adding to the problems, cholera and other waterborne diseases on the coast were attributed to the water supplied via the scheme. The only treatment done by the Kerala Water Authority was the ‘Chlorination’ of the water.<\/p>\n
Now with Water Treatment plant, the Karichal Water Supply Scheme can distribute pure treated drinking water. The Water Treatment plant was installed by the Stockholm-based Josab consists of a 0.36 million-litre treatment plant and treats water using clinoptilolite, a natural zeolite and weathering product of volcanic glass. Clinoptilolite is used in a pressurised tank to remove heavy metals, bacteria, and other pollutants from water that is drawn through collection wells from Karichal Lake. Finally a UV filter disinfects the filtered water.<\/p>\n
The water is supplied to treatment in two shifts of 10 hours each, from a 10,000 litre tank which will soon be made larger.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs of now, we are supplying the treated water to the thickly populated coastal areas of Adimalathura, Pulluvila, Puthiyathura, Kochuthura, and Karumkulam,\u201d said K. Anilkumar, the overseer at the pump-house<\/p>\n
KWA Managing Director Ashok Kumar Singh said that there are plans to extend the same zeolite-based technology to all 2MLD schemes of KWA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After 42 years since its launch, the Karichal Water Supply Scheme has finally started distributing treated drinking water. The project was launched in 1971 by the\u00a0 Kerala Water Authority to provide drinking water in areas perennially deprived of drinking water \u2014Trivandrum city\u2019s coastal belt comprising areas like Kanjiramkulam, Karumkulam, Poovar, and Puthiyathura. However, the project […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-9143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}