Restoration of Urban Blue Acres

1. Mr. Yeshwant Kulkarni
Managing Director, GWRPL
yeshwant@gwrpl.com
Presented At
WRI India Ross Center & MAUD, GOVT. of Telangana
Eco-technology to Increase
Nature’s Happiness Index
Engineering Design and Execution By :
Green Water Revolution Pvt. Ltd. Pune

2. Current situation of rivers and lakes

3. • Inadequacy of urban local bodies in collection, conveyance, and treatment
of wastewaters generated in their notified areas.
• Poor implementation of pollution control laws in urban and industrial
sectors;
• Not only wastewaters but solid wastes are also disposed off near or in the
water bodies.
• Encroachment on flood plains of streams and rivers and basins of ponds &
lakes by developers, massive changes in cities watershed.
• Severe pollution of ground water near polluted rivers & lakes.
• Poor communities are exposed to various diseases due to chemical and
biological pollution especially the down stream of cities.
Issues of water pollution in urban areas of India

4. Targets

5. Land Electricity Chemicals Infrastructure Odor
Conventional Solutions

6. “Eco-technology is defined as an applied science that seeks to fulfill
human needs while causing minimal ecological disruption, by
harnessing and subtly manipulating natural forces to leverage their
beneficial effects” -Wikipedia
ECOTECHNOLOGY
Chemical Sciences
and Engineering
Life Sciences
and Engineering
Earth Sciences
and Engineering
Water Restoration
What is Eco-Technology?

7. • Water bodies not just as suppliers of clean water and recipients of wastewater, but
more importantly as “ecosystems”.
• Nature has her own methods of dealing with problems and these methods have the
most optimal efficiencies. All our technologies have emerged from the recognition of
this fact.
• All growing cities need cost effective and less energy intensive treatment
methodology to control their pollution emanating from point and non-point sources.
• Eco-technological treatment systems are used for the treatment of polluted waters
from point (domestic/industrial units) and non-point sources (River, lake, streams
etc).
• The eco-technological treatment systems - vertical filtration systems for point
sources and horizontal filtration systems for non point sources, promise the result
with minimal electricity as compared to conventional aerobic or anaerobic treatment
systems.
Introduction to Eco-technologies

8. • Due Ecotechnological horizontal filtration system the pollutants from
the stream water decreases and automatically reduces the pollution
load on the conventional STP’s and ETP’s.
• Efficiency of the Conventional WTP’s and STP’s also increases.
• Due to this filtration system ground water recharge also increases.
• Soil scape filtration - Vertical eco-filtration system treats the
wastewater from the residential ,commercial areas ,this treated
water can reused ,ultimately reduces the per day water demand.
• As these technologies not require no chemicals, no machineries ,it is
cost effective.
• For the Smart city development the pollution level from the
environment should be decreases by using cost effective eco-
technologies.
Advantages of Eco-Technology

9. Living System in action for pollution treatment
• Expression of multi-species intelligence
• Supple and magnanimous as possible,
thus keeping away drastic and
irreversible consequences when
something wrong, unexpected happens
• When changes occur in the natural
systems due to external inputs,
biogeochemical cycles and food chains
are reorganized and balanced
• Emergence of a new dynamic order
suitable to the environmental changes
superimposed on it
Aquatic Bio-chem Equilibrium
Pollution
Multi-
species
Single
species
Restoration
Bio-dynamics of aqua-environ-equilibrium

10. Cost Effective without compromising the results
Why Eco-technology?

11. Stream Ecosystem Hydrasch Succession Pond Soil Scape Filter
Bio-tower with Soil Scape
Filter
Green Lake Green Bridge
Eco-Technological Solutions

12. • Ecological Health project and NOT an infrastructure project
• Revitalization of self-purification capacity of water body
• Conversion of single species or no life river or lake water body into
multispecies living water body
• Maximum use of nature’s own capital
• Minimization of monetary and manmade inputs like electricity,
machinery and chemicals
• Local Action for Global Issue of Climate Change
Concept of Ecological Restoration of Rivers & Lakes
– Non-point Sources of Pollution

13. Green Bridges
The horizontal eco-filtration system
A grafting of ecological system to
treat the pollution flowing through
the streams and rivers
Ecological Solutions – Green Bridge System

14. • Green bridge System is the horizontal filtration system.
• Installed at polluted river, streams and lakes to reduce the pollutants .
• Nature purifies water by hydrological cycle. This system heavily impaired,
because of increase in pollutant in water bodies.
• This system increases the self purification capacity of water and reduces the
pollutants from the stream.
• This technology is an In-situ system which consist assortment of the natural
biological produce which used in the system to reduce pollution.
• Reduces pollution level at large extent.
• System proposes aerobic system.
• Ecologically corrected water increase in flora and fauna.
Highlights of Green Bridge System

15. Before After
India’s Largest Bioremediation Project at
Buddha Nallah, Ludhiana,Punjab
(Awarded by MoEF and CPCB)

16. India’s Largest Bioremediation Project at
Buddha Nallahs, Ludhiana, Punjab
(Awarded by MoEF and CPCB)

17. Before Implementation
After Implementation
E
Eco-restoration of Selected Stretch of Kham River,
Aurangabad, Maharashtra

18. Graphical representation of analysis carried out at
selected stretch of Kham River, Aurangabad

19. Eco-Restoration of stream complex,
Rasoolabad, Uttarpradesh

20. Graphical results of the Eco-Restoration of stream
complex, Rasoolabad, Uttarpradesh

21. Before
Before
After
Reduction in Foam
After
Ecological Restoration of Ahar River, Udaipur

22. Ecological Restoration of Ahar River, Udaipur

23. Before After
Before
After
Eco-Restoration of Assi River, Varanasi, UP

24. After – At the Confluence with
Ganga
After
Before – At the confluence with
Ganga
Before
Eco-Restoration of Assi River, Varanasi, UP

25. Kingfisher is seen at different spots
through out the stretch indicating changed
aquatic biodiversity
Numbers of Ducks, fishes are
spotted in the origin pond
Changes Observed by Naked Eye
Eco-Restoration of Assi River, Varanasi, UP

26. Changes Observed by Naked Eye
Eco-Restoration of Assi River, Varanasi, UP

27. Ecological solution- Soil Scape Filter
Vertical Eco-filtration

28. Soil Scape Filtration Installation at Indradhanushya
Environment Centre Pune Municipal Corporation

29. The water from
polluted Ambil stream
used to treat by using
soil scape filtration
system at
Indradhanushya
Environment Centre
at Pune Municipal
corporation (PMC)
-Pune Times Mirror
wed,My,24,2017
Initiative by
NaWaTech and DST
Director of Science
and Technologies)
Soil Scape Filter to be replicated- TOI

30. SSF ( 50 KLD) at PCNTDA, Pune

31. SSF ( 5 KLD ) for Textile Unit at Amer, Jaipur

32. SSF around Play
Ground Treating and
Recycling 60,000 liters
Wastewater per day
SSF at One of the
Resorts Treating and
Recycling 50,000 liters
Wastewater per day
SSF – Installations
near playground and stage at resort

33.  Wastewater generated by smart toilets is
treated by surrounded Soil scape
filtration system.
 A small unit of SSF having capacity 16
KLD saves Rs 8,76,000/-per annum.
SMART PEOPLE
OF
SMART CITY
USE
SMART TOILETS
SSF – Installations for Smart Toilets

34. Yes, Its our own design, our own product

35. • Executed Eco-restoration of 150 MLD Ayad river, Udaipur in 2010, and was
visited by ILEC president, Mr. Nakamura, Planning commission chief Mr.
Kasturirangan, Dr. Akolkar MS CPCB, and other experts.
• Successfully executed Natural treatment of 5 drains in Rasoolabad in 2011
DR. G D Agarwal, former Member Secretary, CPCB, known as Swami Gyan
Swarup Sanand personally guided and observed the outcome of project.
• Eco-restoration of Kham river, Aurangabad, Maharashtra of 160 MLD was
successfully completed in 2016.
• Two streams- one at Dharampuri and another at Omkareshwar which drain
in Narmada was Awarded in 2015.
• Executed India’s largest In-situ bioremediation project of 600 MLD capacity
in Ludhiana, Punjab, Project was awarded by MOEF and CPCB. PPCB has
shown interest to install additional 5 Green Bridges.
• Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation has approved the technology and
is reflected in Indovation documentation
• Ecological restoration of 140 MLD Assi River, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
Achievements

36. Thanks a lot
With You in Pursuit of SustainableManagementof
FiniteWater Resources For Nature’s Happiness Index!!