Bathinda: About 50% of freshwater-based coal-powered plants, most state-owned companies, do not comply with 2015 water consumption norms, even after six years.
Told and plants made from inefficient cooling water in India continue to operate without.
Installing the cooling tower.48% of the coal power fleet in India is located in a rare district of water.
This is the findings of the latest research conducted by the Center for Science and Environment (CSE).
According to the research “inefficient water of strength”, even after six years, the coal-powered industry that moves water ignores 2015 water consumption regulations with a high level of non-compliance.
Calculated among the most crowded industries in this country, the coal power sector is responsible for around 70% of the total withdrawal of fresh water by all industries.
Indian power plants with cooling towers consumed water twice as many as their global colleagues, the report said.
According to the 2015 norm (revised again in 2018), the factory installed before January 1, 2017, is needed to meet certain water consumption limits from 3.5 cubic meters of water per mwh; While which is installed after having to fulfill the norm of 3 cubic meters of water per mwh, in addition to adopting zero-liquid discharge.
In addition, all freshwater-based plants are needed to install a cooling tower and then reach the norm of 3.5 cubic meters of water per mwh.
All sea-based plants are released from fulfilling the norm.
The deadline for meeting water norms is December 2017, which has long passed.
The water norm for coal power plants was introduced in 2015, along with emissions norms.
Although the emission-norms for this sector were revised twice by the ministry, once in 2017 and recently in 2021, the problem of compliance and implementing the norms of water had been fully neglected.
Nivit Kumar Yadav, Director of the Program, the CSE industrial pollution unit, said this happened at the time when many regional electricity producing regions faced acute water shortages.
“Also, there is a large water pollution because of the ‘waste waste waste.” CSE observed more than 154 gw total coal power capacity and found around 50% of freshwater-based plants became not obedient.
Most of these plants belong to state-owned companies.
The CSE survey has found that long-air conditioning plants and inefficient in India continues to operate without installing cooling towers.
This plant does not only violate water norms, but also emissions, surveys said.
Built before 1999, all one-based power plants in India were old and polluted.
Many of these plants are identified for retirement, but have not retired.
They continue to operate, without plans to increase or install emission control equipment or cooling towers.
“Allow these old plants to continue the water polluze cannot be an option.
The plants identified for retirement must be immediately closed if they have no plans to retrofit or install emissions control technology and / or cooling towers,” said Sugandha Arora, Deputy Program Polutionate Unit Manager Program CSE industry.
The CSE survey also found several gaps in data format and its own reported data followed throughout the state to report certain water consumption.
As per recent estimate, around 48% of the coal fleet in India is located in a rare district of water such as Barmer and Baran in Rajasthan.
Yadav said this sector has a large-scale trace and therefore, all efforts must be made to mitigate this impact.
“There is a large scope to reduce demand for water sectors by ensuring the implementation of 2015 standards and overcoming the challenges related to accurate data reporting, old cooling plants that are inefficient and implement zero discharge in newer plants.
If strictly implemented, standards can drastically be drastically.
Reducing overall water consumption and will make Indian plants save water.
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