WATER MANAGEMENT
It’s also possible to have a grip on things that slip through your fingers
The whole of society is responsible for ensuring that water is handled sustainably. But this is a responsibility that companies must also face up to. We make the most of our know-how and our technologies to create a wide variety of water management solutions. From systematically recovering water for reuse, all the way through to implementing flood prevention measures.
When it comes to water, we really are in our element
We have decades of experience of the water management sector and can be found offering our water supply and wastewater treatment services both at home and abroad. What’s important for us is that we collaborate with our customers as partners. Our work sees us providing local authorities, utility companies and water associations – as well as industrial businesses – with bespoke solutions that always cover their exact needs. This may range from taking over all the tasks required to run a sewage treatment plant, through to delivering individual specialist, laboratory or technological services. And always with the goal of taking water management to a new level and making it even more sustainable, safer and more efficient.
Using sewage treatment plants as genuine all-rounder facilities
We make the very most of state-of-the-art technology and intelligent innovations to ensure that sewage treatment plants are turned into genuine high-performance centres and can drive forward sustainability. This begins with patented systems to recover phosphorus, to producing climate-friendly energy, all the way through to extensively monitoring the wastewater to detect and identify microscopic pollutants. The latter is extremely important for protecting public health. Information can be recorded both regionally and locally about viruses and pathogens affecting the population and so allow important conclusions to be made about such infections, such as where they are most rampant. This work proved to be particularly beneficial during the Covid pandemic and will become increasingly more important in the future as well.
Modern sewage treatment plants not only supply raw materials and energy – they are also an important source of information
Thanks to our partnerships with universities and our commitment to a whole range of trade associations, we are able to work with those responsible in local, regional and national authorities to develop solutions that drive forward sustainability and curb climate change.
Growing efficiency with digitisation
Faced with the impact of climate change, water management now also means developing preventative measures to protect regions against flooding. We use smart solutions involving the Internet of Things (IoT) to do just this. Sensors are installed in a local authority’s sewer network and drainage systems so that they can record the volumes of rainfall and flow rates in real time and then pass on this information to the control centres. A reliable and, thanks to the low power sensors, practically maintenance-free early flood warning system that we have implemented in a number of regions in Germany, including Lower Saxony, Lake Constance and the Lausitz.
In addition to this, sensors can also be deployed to monitor municipal and industrial wastewater treatment facilities – to better understand their performance as well as to control them better and boost their efficiency levels. Linked to one another via radio networks, the sensors record key data such as water levels, flow rates and temperatures as well as any possible leaks inside the wastewater treatment plant.
The data is displayed in real time on an online platform that has been adapted to the customer and its requirements. The traffic light colours – green, amber and red – show how the individual plant components are running and where action may need to be taken
Zero Liquid Discharge – indispensable for tackling water crises
Modern wastewater management in the industrial sector can be summarised with just three letters: ZLD. This abbreviation stands for Zero Liquid Discharge and describes the ideal situation where all process water is kept within a closed cycle and is treated and cleaned after it has been used so that it can be returned immediately for reuse. This is an approach that can play a key role in conserving resources here in Germany. Just how relevant it is to promoting sustainability, however, becomes even clearer when you look at countries where water is particularly scarce and where there is a lack of wastewater treatment infrastructure. India is at the top of the list here. Just one-third of the wastewater produced in this country’s urban areas is treated. If things are to change here, then India will have no choice but to systematically implement Zero Liquid Discharge systems. And this is also why REMONDIS Aqua has been working on this subcontinent for many years now and operates ZLD facilities at several industrial locations. These ZLD projects will also play a pioneering role for many other countries as this system offers an approach that can be implemented all around the world to save water used in production processes. It will also become more important as global sustainability efforts continue to increase.
Thanks to Zero Liquid Discharge, production processes do not generate wastewater – and valuable raw materials can also be recovered.
Our water management services are provided by our specialist company REMONDIS Aqua. Click here to visit its website
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