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KARNATAKA CONSTRUCTS A

GWM UNIT IN SHIRUR GP

A contaminating the water body has been
greywater treatment unit consisting
replaced by a system that treats channels
of an adopted settler and a
Constructed Wetland (CW) was
use, etc.
constructed in Bedavatti village of Shirur the greywater into a canal for agricultural
GP in Kuknoor taluk of Koppal District,
Before GWM work began in Bedavatti, a
Karnataka.
survey was carried out to ascertain the
Constructed at an estimated cost of quantity of greywater generated by a
Rs.10.05 lakhs (Rs. 6.60 lakhs from SBM-G; total population of 1,071 individuals in the
Rs. 3 lakhs from MGNREGA; and Rs. 0.45 village. After the survey was completed, the
th
lakhs from the 15 FC Grant), the GWM unit greywater treatment plant was constructed
located at the outfall point is expected to at one of the points where the greywater
cater to 214 households in the village. joined the river. The construction of another
treatment plant at a second outfall point is
The previous practice of greywater joining
currently in progress.
the river Hirehalla at two places and

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