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Features and Benefits RO Plant - Aseptic system design, Inhibits bacterial contamination , Integrated micron per-filtration, Continuous membrane and pump protection, Integrated membrane cleaning system, Simple operation and easy maintenance, Complete system automation capabilities, Reliable performance and operation flexibility, Manufactured to ISO 9001 standards, Assured quality and consistent performance, Full instrumentation with Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) for system monitoring, and control, Minimal operator attention

Objective of project-Safe Drinking Water for Patients
Strategy of Project-Diageo in collaboration with Swami Vivekanand Shiksha Samiti (SVSS) installed RO Purification Unit in the capacity of 500 Liter per Hour (LPH) with Chiller at Bilaspur District Hospital & 250 Liter Per Hour(LPH) with Chiller at Ratanpur Community Health Center. This plant helps remove high TDS, fluorides and other contamination and provides safe drinking water to the however, Diageo-SVSS would continue to overlook the maintenance, control and up keep of the plant. The Patients admitted in hospital & outdoor patients are availing the facilities of the RO plant water .Each Patients shall be allowed to draw 300 liters of RO water per month. Every day, a maximum of 10 liters of water can be drawn by each patient. An awareness & Inauguration program about safe drinking water and RO plants are also organized.

• Over 2 billion people live in water-stressed countries, which is expected to be exacerbated in some regions as result of climate change and population growth.
• Globally, at least 2 billion people use a drinking water source contaminated with feces. Microbial contamination of drinking-water as a result of contamination with feces poses the greatest risk to drinking-water safety.
• While the most important chemical risks in drinking water arise from arsenic, fluoride or nitrate, emerging contaminants such as pharmaceuticals, pesticides, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) and microplastics generate public concern.
• Safe and sufficient water facilitates the practice of hygiene, which is a key measure to prevent not only diarrhoeal diseases, but acute respiratory infections and numerous neglected tropical diseases.
• Microbiologically contaminated drinking water can transmit diseases such as diarrhoea, cholera, dysentery, typhoid and polio and is estimated to cause 485 000 diarrhoeal deaths each year.
• In 2020, 74% of the global population (5.8 billion people) used a safely managed drinking-water service – that is, one located on premises, available when needed, and free from contamination.

Contaminated water and poor sanitation are linked to transmission of diseases such as cholera, diarrhoea, dysentery, hepatitis A, typhoid and polio. Absent, inadequate, or inappropriately managed water and sanitation services expose individuals to preventable health risks. This is particularly the case in health care facilities where both patients and staff are placed at additional risk of infection and disease when water, sanitation and hygiene services are lacking. Globally, 15% of patients develop an infection during a hospital stay, with the proportion much greater in low-income countries.

Inadequate management of urban, industrial and agricultural wastewater means the drinking-water of hundreds of millions of people is dangerously contaminated or chemically polluted. Natural presence of chemicals, particularly in groundwater, can also be of health significance, including arsenic and fluoride, while other chemicals, such as lead, may be elevated in drinking-water as a result of leaching from water supply components in contact with drinking-water.

In many parts of the world, insects that live or breed in water carry and transmit diseases such as dengue fever. Some of these insects, known as vectors, breed in clean, rather than dirty water, and household drinking water containers can serve as breeding grounds. The simple intervention of covering water storage containers can reduce vector breeding and may also reduce fecal contamination of water at the household level.

As the international authority on public health and water quality, WHO leads global efforts to prevent water-related disease, advising governments on the development of health-based targets and regulations.

WHO produces a series of water quality guidelines, including on drinking-water, safe use of wastewater, and recreational water quality. The water quality guidelines are based on managing risks, and since 2004 theGuidelines for drinking-water quality promote the Framework for safe drinking-water. The Framework recommends establishment of health-based targets, the development and implementation of water safety plans by water suppliers to most effectively identify and manage risks from catchment to consumer, and independent surveillance to ensure that water safety plans are effective and health-based targets are being met.

Since 2014, WHO has been testing household water treatment products against WHO health-based performance criteria through the WHO International Scheme to Evaluate Household Water Treatment Technologies. The aim of the scheme is to ensure that products protect users from the pathogens that cause diarrhoeal disease and to strengthen policy, regulatory and monitoring mechanisms at the national level to support appropriate targeting and consistent and correct use of such products.

WHO works closely with UNICEF in a number of areas concerning water and health, including on water, sanitation, and hygiene in health care facilities. In 2015 the two agencies jointly developed WASH FIT (Water and Sanitation for Health Facility Improvement Tool), an adaptation of the water safety plan approach. WASH FIT aims to guide small, primary health care facilities in low- and middle-income settings through a continuous cycle of improvement through assessments, prioritization of risk, and definition of specific, targeted actions describes practical steps that countries can take to improve water, sanitation and hygiene in health care facilities.

A safe water supply is the backbone of a healthy economy, yet is woefully under prioritized, globally.It is estimated that waterborne diseases have an economic burden of approximately USD 600 million a year in India. This is especially true for drought- and flood-prone areas, which affected a third of India’s population in the past couple of years.

Moreover, two-thirds of India’s 718 districts are affected by extreme water depletion. One of the challenges is the fast rate of groundwater depletion in India, which is known as the world’s highest user of this source due to the proliferation of drilling over the past few decades. Groundwater from over 30 million access points supplies 85 per cent of drinking water in rural areas and 48 per cent of water requirements in urban areas.(Source: JMP 2017

All children have the right to clean water and basic sanitation, as stated in the Convention on the Rights of a Child. The ultimate aim of UNICEF’s work in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) is to ensure that all children fulfill this right, and that no child is left behind.

Around 11,000 Implement Support Agencies (ISAs, mainly NGOs) are being and trained (notably by KRCs) and engaged by state departments to support implementation of the JJM in GPs as per the national JJM guidelines, covering aspects such as community empowerment and engagement, water quality testing and surveillance, utility operation, water safety and security planning, source sustainability measures, such as recharge and reuse through grey water management, water conservation and rain water harvesting. This effort to support and strengthen water governance systems in gram panchayats is implemented with a genuine focus on women empowerment to take effective leadership in water management issues.The guidelines give specific emphasis on women participation in the various stages of planning, implementation and management of schemes. For example, the local person responsible for regular operation and minor repairs is preferably a woman from the village who will be trained and engaged through deliverable-based payments.