---

Approach

The aim of the proposed Innovation Centre is to explore the potential of selected wastewater treatment technologies and assess their feasibility as the enablers of Circular Economy for sustainable wastewater management in urban, peri-urban and rural settings. Focus will be on the NTS and their role in addressing the complete supply chain loop of wastewater management in India.

The Centre’s endeavour will be to develop appropriate “Technology Packages” based on identified NTS, and suitable for different applications. This will require not just sound and robust technologies but also easy and affordable O&M, economic viability, and social acceptance. A Decision Support Tool (DST) will be used for the selection of appropriate “Technology Packages” for desired applications. The DST will be based on scenario based multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) approach and shall utilize the concept of Life cycle assessment (LCA)/Material Flow Assessment of the NTS. The MCDM approach shall consider a variety of indicators covering the parameters of technical (including ease of use), ecosystem, economics (including Return on Investment), and socio-cultural aspects. Also,suitable business models to make NTS successful in different scenarios in India will also be proposed. Fact Sheets, Policy Briefs and a Handbook of NTS Technology Packages will be developed to facilitate the adoption of suggested “Technology Packages” by the Water Utilities. An inventory of NTS installations in India will also be developed.

In order to explore the potential and feasibility of NTS under different Indian scenarios, few pilot studies utilizing CW will be carried out in the cities of Jaipur and Mumbai/Thane under urban settings and near Roorkee under peri-urban and rural settings. These pilot case studies will provide the data and learnings to draw recommendations for implementing CWs across India. These pilot study sites will be “Live Laboratories” to be equipped with state-of-art monitoring instrumentation and their data will be monitored on-line on the Centre’s portal. Researchers, students, field engineers will immensely benefit from these “Live Laboratories”. Hands on trainings for practitioners, entrepreneurs, researchers and students will be conducted and a TOT module on NTS applications will be developed. Regular awareness programs for communities are planned, and Users Interaction Workshops are proposed on annual basis for awareness and knowledge dissemination purposes.