Dubai Municipality award for Trichy DEWATS Project

Tiruchirapalli, June 28 (UNI) The community-based Decentralised Waste Water Treatment System (CBS DEWATS), put up by Exnora International in the Corporation Community Toilet at East Devadhanam here has bagged the Dubai Municipality's Best Practices International Certificate for the year 2006.

In a release here today, Exnora-BORDA Project, Tiruchirapalli, Co-ordinator V Ganapathy said the Independent Technical Advisory Committee of the Dubai Municipality and United Nations Human Settlement Programme (U N Habitat) had received 2,700 good and best practices applications from 140 countries, out of which the coveted certificate was awarded for slum development, integrating community sanitation, Solid Waste Management and Decentralised Waste Water treatment system covering 1,543 persons and 378 families in East Devadhanam in Tiruchirapalli. The best practices were analysed and selected so that others could learn from it and incorporate it in their work.

In East Devadhanam, about 5,000 litres of backwater coming from the community toilet were treated in the CBS DEWATS without power or chemicals and re-used for raising banana and coconut trees. The biogas generated was used for cooking purpose. The DEWATS was established at a cost of Rs 9 lakh provided by BORDA, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) in Germany, the release added.

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