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DS Group's water conservation projects in Raj improve ground water level phenomenally
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SME Times News Bureau | 21 Mar, 2020
The DS Groups signature project,
"Water Economic Zone", initiated on World Water Day in 2018, is spread
over an area of around 11,385 hectares in Alsigarh and Kurabad,
districts of Udaipur and aims to reach out to more than 24,000 people of
26 villages.
The company has already treated 5,316 hectares of
land and has created 9.64 lakh cubic meter of water storage and recharge
capacity. The DS Group is a water sensitive organisation and ‘Water
Conservation' is the mainstay of its CSR initiatives.
The
company is committed to improve water security in areas identified as
critical and water vulnerable with a focus to improve water table of the
areas for agriculture, thus improving the livelihood prospects of the
community. DS Group commissioned its first water conservation
project in Sikar in 2013 and has since constructed 23 check dams in
Deepawas Mokalwas & Ajeetgarh villages in Sikar district. The
Company has also developed water conservation projects in Mahoba and
Banda in Bundelkhand; Surata in Dungarpur; Karauli; and the ‘Water
Economc Zone at Kurabad and Alsigarh in Udaipur. The DS Group
has already saved around 20,83,855 cubic meter of water till date in
Rajasthan, covering 617 hectares and impacting about 33,000 lives. According
to the Central Water Commission, India needs a maximum of 3,000 billion
cubic metres of water a year while it receives 4,000 billion cubic
metres of rain. The country captures only 8 per cent of its annual
rainfall, which is amongst lowest in the world leading to , the scarcity
of water .
Water scarcity is a big problem, particularly in
Rajasthan. It has 13.88 per cent of India's cultivable area, 5.67 per
cent of population and about 11 per cent of country's livestock. But it
has only 1.6 per cent of surface water and 1.70 per cent of ground
water. The water conservation projects will significantly improve the
social and economic conditions in the state. The Company is also
conscientious about water conservation in its operations and the
Company's headquarter situated in Noida is Zero Discharge facility, nine
recharge pits for water harvesting, reusing RO water discharge,
Effluent and Sewage Treatment Plants are few such initiatives that has
aided this drive.
The water discharge from the cooling tower,
Effluent Treatment Plants and Sewage treatment plants are treated and
re-used for horticulture.
The water taps in the washrooms have
been fitted with aerators to reduce water flow rate to 3.18 Litre per
Minute (LPM) from 13 Litre per Minute (LPM). All the water closets have
been adjusted to reduce water flushing from 9 litres to 7 litres.
Water
preservation initiatives like roof top rain water harvesting system,
recycle and reuse of RO water and natural recharging pond/pits, in all
the DS Group's units reinforce the philosophy of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
and Recharge.
Recycling and reuse strategy allowed DS Group
deploy 301,644 KL of water for flushing, gardening and irrigation. About
91,400 KL rain water is collected in ponds and used for irrigation
purpose. And, about 15,044 KL rain water is harvested through rain water
harvesting pits at headquarters in Noida.
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