TY - JOUR
T1 - Potential for Riverbank filtration in India
AU - Sandhu, Cornelius
AU - Grischek, Thomas
AU - Kumar, Pradeep
AU - Ray, Chittaranjan
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments Financial support for this study was received from the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF grant IND 08/156). Also the work at various field sites by several undergraduate and PhD students, as well as technical and logistical support, from the University of Applied Sciences Dresden and the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee is gratefully acknowledged. Initial planning for this study was funded by a Fulbright Research senior research scholarship to the corresponding author for a sabbatical leave in India. The authors are also grateful for the valuable additional support from the University of Hawaii, Dresden University of Technology, Integrated Hydro Development Forum Patna, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Nirma University of Science and Technology Ahmedabad, and the water companies Stadtwerke Düsseldorf and Uttarakhand Jal Sansthan.
PY - 2011/4
Y1 - 2011/4
N2 - Riverbank filtration (RBF) has been used for many decades in Europe and the United States to provide drinking water to communities located on riverbanks. In India, the development of RBF has the potential to provide drinking water to many cities located on the Ganga Plains currently using surface water as a source for their public water supply. Water diversion for irrigation and discharge of wastewater to rivers with extremely low flows has aggravated the water supply situation for many Indian cities using surface water. A number of Indian cities, with source waters of significantly varying quality, are already using RBF. In most of these cities no significant additional treatment is provided to the filtrate for their water supply. The objective of this article is to examine selected operating bank filtration sites in India (that have been investigated since 2005) and to elucidate additional potential RBF sites based on water problems and hydrogeologic suitability. A summary of selected operational RBF systems in Ahmedabad, Delhi, Haridwar, Mathura, Medinipur and Kharagpur, Nainital, Patna and Srinagar and their ability to produce potable water is provided. Analysis of the suitability of RBF for Allahabad, Bhubaneswar, Guwahati, and Vijayawada, based on hydrogeology and land use, is also provided.
AB - Riverbank filtration (RBF) has been used for many decades in Europe and the United States to provide drinking water to communities located on riverbanks. In India, the development of RBF has the potential to provide drinking water to many cities located on the Ganga Plains currently using surface water as a source for their public water supply. Water diversion for irrigation and discharge of wastewater to rivers with extremely low flows has aggravated the water supply situation for many Indian cities using surface water. A number of Indian cities, with source waters of significantly varying quality, are already using RBF. In most of these cities no significant additional treatment is provided to the filtrate for their water supply. The objective of this article is to examine selected operating bank filtration sites in India (that have been investigated since 2005) and to elucidate additional potential RBF sites based on water problems and hydrogeologic suitability. A summary of selected operational RBF systems in Ahmedabad, Delhi, Haridwar, Mathura, Medinipur and Kharagpur, Nainital, Patna and Srinagar and their ability to produce potable water is provided. Analysis of the suitability of RBF for Allahabad, Bhubaneswar, Guwahati, and Vijayawada, based on hydrogeology and land use, is also provided.
KW - Drinking water treatment
KW - Ganga River
KW - India
KW - Monsoon
KW - Riverbank filtration
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U2 - 10.1007/s10098-010-0298-0
DO - 10.1007/s10098-010-0298-0
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84867142992
VL - 13
SP - 295
EP - 316
JO - Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy
JF - Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy
SN - 1618-954X
IS - 2
ER -