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Water conservation due to greywater treatment and reuse in urban setting with specific context to developing countries

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Title Water conservation due to greywater treatment and reuse in urban setting with specific context to developing countries
 
Creator Mandal, Deepika
Labhasetwar, P K
Dhone, S N
Dubey, Ajay Shankar
Shinde, Gangadhar
Wate, S R
 
Subject Environmental Resources, Conservation
 
Description In India, the per capita water availability is reducing day by day due to rapid growth in population and
increasing water demand. Greywater treatment and reuse is one of the feasible options in developing
countries like India to overcome this problem. A greywater collection, treatment and reuse system was
designed and implemented in an urban household having a water requirement of 165 liter per capita
per day (lpcd) and a greywater generation rate of 80 lpcd. An upflow–downflow greywater treatment
plant having a screening, sedimentation, filtration and disinfection as major treatment processes was
constructed and treated greywater is used for toilet flushing and to irrigate the vegetables in the backyard
of the household. Greywater characterisation indicates that COD and BOD are sufficiently reduced during
the treatment and there is also substantially reduction in Escherichia coli count. The payback period of
this greywater treatment and reuse system is estimated to be 1.6 year.
 
Publisher Elsevier
 
Date 2011-01
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://neeri.csircentral.net/527/1/Water_conservation_due_to_greywater_treatment.pdf
Mandal, Deepika and Labhasetwar, P K and Dhone, S N and Dubey, Ajay Shankar and Shinde, Gangadhar and Wate, S R (2011) Water conservation due to greywater treatment and reuse in urban setting with specific context to developing countries. Resources, Conservation and Recycling , 55 (3). pp. 356-361. ISSN 0921-3449
 
Relation http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921344910002399
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