This story is from September 14, 2016

Textile mills at Sachin GIDC to get tertiary treated water

Around 60-odd textile dyeing and printing mills in Sachin GIDC have been drawing water from nearby canals and through private water tankers.
Textile mills at Sachin GIDC to get tertiary treated water
SURAT: Illegal supply of groundwater from borewells and canals to textile dyeing and printing mills in Sachin GIDC is all set to fall in the coming months with Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) mulling providing tertiary treated water to them.
Around 60-odd textile dyeing and printing mills in Sachin GIDC have been drawing water from nearby canals and through private water tankers.
A few mill owners have been indulging in corrupt practices also by tampering with water meters at their premises to steal water from canals.
Around 40 per cent of the water supplied to the dyeing mills are drawn illegally from the borewells in Bhestan, Bamroli and Pandesara. The tanker owners charge anything between Rs3,000 to Rs4,000 per tanker from them.
Official sources said the dyeing and printing mill owners from Sachin GIDC had met civic authorities demanding supply of tertiary treated water. The civic body is already supplying around 40 million litre per day (MLD) water to the dyeing and printing units in Pandesara GIDC.
The standing committee of SMC accepted the proposal of Sachin GIDC dyeing and printing mills to supply tertiary treated water from Dindoli. In the first phase, Sachin units will be supplied with 25 MLD treated water and later the supply will be increased up to 40 MLD. The water quality will be same as being supplied to the units in Pandesara.
In-charge city engineer of SMC, Bharat Dalal told TOI, "We plan to supply tertiary treated water from our Dindoli plant to the units in Sachin GIDC. It will be a tamper-proof system, like the one we have at Pandesara GIDC."

There are around 325 dyeing and printing mills at Sachin, Pandesara, Kadodara and Palsana. Pandesara GIDC has the highest presence of 100 dyeing and printing mills. The total turnover of the dyeing and printing mills is pegged at Rs125 crore per day.
Pandesara GIDC has 100 dyeing and printing mills that need round-the-clock water supply. Borewell water is not suitable to maintain quality in textile industry. Industries need 90 MLD water. As present 100 MLD tertiary plant of SMC at Bamroli is capable to supply about 40 MLD treated waste water to industries but the industrialists in Pandesara have requested SMC to set up second 40 MLD capacity tertiary plant.
"A new tertiary treatment plant with the capacity of 40 MLD per day is going to be set up. We will be getting around 40 MLD industrial water in the next four months. This will take the total treated water supply at 80 MLD," South Gujarat Textile Processors Association (SGTPA) president Jitu Vakaharia said. He added, "Each of the dyeing and printing mill is spending Rs7 lakh per month on water charges. The total spending on the water in Pandesara GIDC is pegged at Rs70 crore per annum."
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