https://www.miningweekly.com
Energy|Environment|Pumps|Safety|Storage|Surface|System|Technology|transport|Waste|Water|Products|Solutions|Waste
Energy|Environment|Pumps|Safety|Storage|Surface|System|Technology|transport|Waste|Water|Products|Solutions|Waste
energy|environment|pumps|safety|storage|surface|system|technology|transport|waste-company|water|products|solutions|waste

Solutions manage water scarcity challenges

Chetan Mistry
Water sustainability needs to be prioritised

Chetan Mistry Water sustainability needs to be prioritised

7th May 2021

By: Nadine Ramdass

Creamer Media Writer

     

Font size: - +

With the agriculture sector heavily relying on water to ensure that it can continue to function, more strategies have to be adopted and solutions applied to manage the effects of water-related challenges in the industry.

“Water will need to be looked at differently, especially since agriculture is one of the highest consumers of water. The sector will need to ensure that water is used sustainably,” says water technology company Xylem Water Solutions strategy and marketing manager Chetan Mistry.

Xylem agriculture sector solutions primarily cover pumping, metrology and treatment.

Pumping involves abstractions from source, such as surface or borehole water, water transport and pressure boosting. Metrology allows for the monitoring of water used, while treatment solutions involves the treatment of raw water and wastewater.

Xylem offers pumps that are efficient and dependable. They ensure optimal running performance and limited water and energy losses.

The company also offers metering technology strategies that can be used to monitor water consumption, and a leak detection plan that avoids water loss.

Treatment solutions offered by Xylem rely on ozone and ultraviolet (UV) rays – as opposed to chemicals – for water consumption, process water and washdowns. These ozone- and UV-based solutions have no negative impact on the environment, when compared to chemical water treatment solutions.

Ozone and UV solutions offer no chemical by-product. There is no waste or impact on the environment. They also limit, while not entirely eliminating, the amount of chemicals needed when water is not required for immediate use.

An additional safety benefit of less or no chemicals is less chemical handling. There is no storage, chemical hazards or chemical transport as ozone and UV solutions are produced on site.

“Xylem offers premium quality products that users can trust and rely on. Many of the solution adoptions depend on the strategy the farms may adopt, such as if they have reuse water strategies,” he adds.

Mistry concludes that short-term gain using low-cost products that do not always serve the system can result in increased expenditure in the long term. “Cost effectiveness needs to come from looking at the system holistically and not only in terms of capital investment.”

Edited by Zandile Mavuso
Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor: Features

Comments

Showroom

Goodwin Submersible Pumps Africa (Pty) Ltd
Goodwin Submersible Pumps Africa (Pty) Ltd

Goodwin Submersible Pumps Africa is sole distributors for Goodwin electrically driven, submersible, abrasion resistance slurry pumps.

VISIT SHOWROOM 
Stewarts & Lloyds
Stewarts & Lloyds

Stewarts & Lloyds today supplies steel and tube, pipe and fittings, valves, pumps, irrigation, fencing, profiling and roofing products. The cash...

VISIT SHOWROOM 

Latest Multimedia

sponsored by

Resources Watch
Resources Watch
27th March 2024

Option 1 (equivalent of R125 a month):

Receive a weekly copy of Creamer Media's Engineering News & Mining Weekly magazine
(print copy for those in South Africa and e-magazine for those outside of South Africa)
Receive daily email newsletters
Access to full search results
Access archive of magazine back copies
Access to Projects in Progress
Access to ONE Research Report of your choice in PDF format

Option 2 (equivalent of R375 a month):

All benefits from Option 1
PLUS
Access to Creamer Media's Research Channel Africa for ALL Research Reports, in PDF format, on various industrial and mining sectors including Electricity; Water; Energy Transition; Hydrogen; Roads, Rail and Ports; Coal; Gold; Platinum; Battery Metals; etc.

Already a subscriber?

Forgotten your password?

MAGAZINE & ONLINE

SUBSCRIBE

RESEARCH CHANNEL AFRICA

SUBSCRIBE

CORPORATE PACKAGES

CLICK FOR A QUOTATION







sq:0.102 0.137s - 94pq - 2rq
Subscribe Now