Dehra Dun: For Uttarakhand, which is
facing an acute water scarcity, sky is virtually the limit.
With hundreds of rivulets going dry in the hill state,
the Uttarakhand Jal Sansthan is in talks with various
companies to tap atmospheric vapours.
The Sansthan, the government`s nodal agency to provide
drinking water in the state, is planning to install
sophisticated machines that can produce drinking water from
the atmosphere in all those places where various drinking
water supply systems like hand-pumps have failed.
Jal Sansthan is awaiting the government`s approval on
the matter.
"We want to install hundreds of such machines in our
state in view of the drinking water shortage," said state
Drinking Water Minister Prakash Pant.
Sky Water India, a Hyderabad-based company, has
already installed its machine at the head office of Jal
Sansthan to demonstrate its expertise in the field. "The
machine is working very well," said Prakash Chandra Kimothi,
Secretary Appraisal of the Jal Sansthan.
The machine works by converting water vapour in the
air into fresh and clean liquid water on the same principles
on which air conditioners work.
PTI
