CCRBF - Expansion of the Indo-German Competence Centre for Riverbank Filtration
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Topic of the research project: Natural water treatment techniques of managed aquifer recharge, riverbank filtration and constructed wetlands
Names of cooperation partners (lead of the cooperation project):
1. University of Applied Sciences Dresden (HTW Dresden/ project leader/coordinator)
2. DVGW Water Technology Center, Dresden branch
3. Institute for Water Chemistry, Technische Universität Dresden
4. University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
5. AKUT Umweltschutz Ingenieure Burkard und Partner mbB
6. AUTARCON GmbH
7. Stadtwerke Heidelberg GmbH
8. National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee (project co-leader India)
9. Uttarakhand State Water Supply Organisation – Uttarakhand Jal Sansthan
10. Banaras Hindu University, Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, Varanasi
11. Bineswar Brahma Engineering College, Kokrajhar
12. The Energy & Resources Institute, Southern Regional Centre, Goa
13. Anna University, Department of Geology, Chennai
14. CSIR – Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Durgapur
15. Indian Institute of Technology Madras (Indo-German Centre for Sustainability/IGCS at IITM)
Project funding organisations: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF grant no. 01DU20003)
Project description:
The 7 German and 8 Indian partners of the CCRBF consortium will strengthen educational and research cooperation between Germany and India focusing on natural water treatment techniques of riverbank filtration (RBF), managed aquifer recharge (MAR) and constructed wetlands (CW). This is to be achieved through the extension of the activities and partners of the “Riverbank Filtration Network (RBFN)” that exists since 2008 and resulted in the establishment of the “Indo-German Competence Centre for Riverbank Filtration” between NIH Roorkee and HTW Dresden in 2011. Specific objectives are the development of a science-based master plan for RBF in India, the development of 4 RBF and 1 CW demonstration sites in India, the revision of existing guidelines for the construction and operation of new RBF and CW sites in India and the organization of capacity-development and research-marketing activities such as an international RBF conference in Dresden end September 2022.