Wednesday, June 18, 2014: State minister for public health engineering department, Noke Wangnao recently inaugurated an innovative solar-powered water treatment unit at Tsiesema village near Kohima, Nagaland. In this way, Nagaland has now become the first state in the country to come up with such an initiative.
Under the ambitious initiative, three acutely water-starved villages, namely Tsiesema, Meriema and Kijumetouma in the Kohima district of the state have been provided with the innovative technology to utilise the power of the sun as a remedy to solve the issue of water shortage. The technology for the same has been provided by a Mumbai-based company and is called the ‘Additya Solar-operated Advanced Membrane Filtration system’. Not only will the technology solve the problem of water scarcity, but it will also produce pure drinking water free from any form of contamination.
According to Er Kevisekho Kruse, Nagaland’s chief PHED engineer, the Additya Solar-operated Advanced Membrane Filtration system has been designed to remove up to 99.99 per cent bacteria selectively from water without hampering its constituents and taste. The fully automated, solar-operated water treatment unit can operate with very low power consumption and comes with a capacity of 6000l per day.
