K CONSULTATION | design and engineering consultancy firm based in India for Water Treatment Plants and Solid-Liquid Separation

Kcon PMC Pvt. Ltd. is a 25 years old design and engineering consultancy firm based in India. We specialize in water treatment systems and solid-liquid separation. We work in private, industrial, municipal and government sectors. Our founders have a cumulative experience of seventy years in this field.

We have to our credit about 600 plants around the world

“Reducing Water Losses in Treatment Plants”
in Developing Countries

Water losses in the water supply scheme range from 15% to 30% of treated water. Most of these occur in conveying and distribution system. However water treatment plants contribute to a small but significant portion of it. Water losses in a treatment plant are caused by wash-water from filters and sludge from clarifiers or settling tanks. In well designed and operated treatment plants these are up to 2% but usually can be up to 5% of treated water. It is worth taking a look at various methods adopted to reduce these losses and conserve the precious water.

In India most of the treatment plants have surface raw water as the source.
Most of the water treatment plants do not have facility to reduce or eliminate wastewater discharges. The wastewater is disposed off to a water body, streams, rivers, natural drain or for land irrigation without treatment. The second and important aspect is that in government or municipal sector there are neither statutory regulations on quality and quantity of waste water discharge from treatment plants, nor it comes under the jurisdiction of pollution control boards. There are no regulations till date of these practices. In the developed and advanced countries waste water treatment and recovery is a regular feature of water treatment plants.