Srinivasan, R and Pandit, SA and Khatei, G and Karunakara, N and Kumara, KS and Riotte, J and Moger, H and David, PA and Jindal, M and Gowrisankar, G and Ramkumar, KD (2022) Reverse osmosis units in groundwater based public water supply system in rural eastern Karnataka, India: an analysis. In: Current Science, 123 (12). pp. 1493-1498.
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Abstract
Adequacy, eco-friendliness and desirability of continua-tion of reverse osmosis (RO) purification of groundwater for providing safe drinking water to villages in the groundwater resource-deficient eastern Karnataka, India, have been studied in 15 villages in 4 districts of the state, where high fluoride and uranium contamination has been observed. The results indicate that: (i) except in Chitra-durga district, there are an inadequate number of RO facilities; (ii) RO water consumption is far less than the minimum amount recommended for drinking by WHO; (iii) while the benchmark of the best performance for RO membranes is >99, the RO units in use show an ave-rage fluoride and uranium rejection percentage of 92.6 and 95.1 respectively; and (iv) similar to almost all RO units, the installed ones are also wasting water in the water-deficient eastern Karnataka and discharging concentrate with a higher percentage of contaminants into the environment. Better management of RO units and RO concentrate is required. © 2022,Current Science.All Rights Reserved.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | Current Science |
| Publisher: | Indian Academy of Sciences |
| Additional Information: | The copyright for this article belongs to the Authors. |
| Keywords: | Contaminants; Environmental friendliness; Groundwater; Reverse osmosis; Sustainable rural water supply |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Mechanical Sciences > Divecha Centre for Climate Change |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Feb 2023 03:49 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Feb 2023 03:49 |
| URI: | https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/79803 |
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