TOMSK, Jan 19 – RIA Tomsk. The Novgorod region decided to follow the experience of the Tomsk region in the issue of water treatment and ordered a water treatment plant from Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) for installation in one of its settlements; while this is a pilot project, but with the prospect of further development, the press service of the university reports.
Earlier it was reported that at the moment in the Tomsk region, there are about 140 thousand people in 425 settlements are not provided with clean drinking water. Until 2020, within the framework of the governor's program "Pure Water" in the region it is planned to open more than 300 local water treatment plants. In 2017, they were installed in 69 Tomsk villages, in 2018, applications were submitted by 66 more settlements with 30 thousand inhabitants. The development of the stations was carried out by TPU scientists.
"In December, the governor of the Novgorod Region, Andrei Nikitin, came to Tomsk. He had an opportunity to get acquainted with our water treatment plants. And now for the time being we have received an order for one water treatment station for one village", – the director of the TPU School of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies Aleksey Yakovlev is quoted.
According to him, this will be a pilot project in the Novgorod region with the aim of introducing a network of such stations in the region. In addition, polytechnicians received proposals for supply from Omsk, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo regions and Kazakhstan. The cleaning technology, created by polytechnicians, is selected for specific initial water quality in settlements.Earlier it was reported that the water treatment plants created in TPU are booth-columns, which can clean up 36 "cubes" of water per day. The water in such a station passes first mechanical purification from sand, then – ozonation to enhance the taste sensations, cleaning with carbon filters and disinfection with an ultraviolet lamp.