wastewater treatment

Mansi Jain, a graduate of environmental economics from Stanford University and her father Rajesh Jain, a product of IIT-Delhi, founded their startup Digital Paani to help industries and residential societies treat their wastewater more efficiently and at a lower cost.

Bengaluru water scarcity: From completing projects on time to reviving lakes, constructing open wells, rainwater harvesting and using wastewater as a genuine resource -- experts say the solutions to the city's problem are apparent and eminently doable.

Lemnion Green Solutions, a startup inspired by duckweed's potential for wastewater treatment, facilitates the ecological rejuvenation of nullahs and rivers. It employs biological systems to treat wastewater of capacities ranging from 1 KLD [kilolitres per day] to 3,000 KLD.

Researchers Dr Vishal Mishra and Veer Singh from IIT-BHU have found a unique bacteria that can remove the toxic hexavalent chromium metal from wastewater in a cost-effective way.

What's more, the microalgae can also be used to generate biodiesel. We really lichen this! #Innovation #IIT

Designed for artisans, this system is compact in size, allowing artisans in small industries to construct and maintain the 'wall' by themselves.

Ajit Gokhale's reed bed system can be installed anywhere, from housing societies and educational institutions to companies and villages. Its capacity to treat water? From as low as 500 litres/day to 15,00,000 litres and even more!

With a mission to find an alternative method to abate wastage of water, it took eight years of research for Dr Rajah Vijay Kumar to come up with the innovation.