TOMSK, November 20. /TASS/. Two innovative water treatment complexes, developed by scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University under the governor's program "Clean Water", were installed in the village of Kaftanchikovo near Tomsk, with more than 1,700 residents. The complexes will solve the problem with water, which did not meet sanitary standards before the installation of the stations, the press service of the university told reporters.
"Two water purification plants were launched at the same time this year in Kaftanchikovo: with a capacity of 10 cubic meters per hour and 5 cubic meters per hour. Thanks to this, clean drinking water is supplied to houses connected to water supply networks, as well as a school, a kindergarten, a cultural center, a hospital and a veterinary station," the message reads.
It is specified that water supply in the village comes from three water wells. However, the water quality does not meet the sanitary standards for iron and manganese levels. The stations should solve this problem. Such stations are based on several technological units: a reactor tank with a high-performance aeration and ozonation system, a filtration system, a disinfection system with an ultraviolet lamp, a control and automation panel.
"The Governor's program 'Clean Water' has been implemented in the Tomsk Region for the fourth year already. And if at first we installed electronic wells in settlements, now we are focusing on the stations that supply water to the network and then directly to consumers' homes," Deputy Governor Evgeny Parshuto was quoted as saying.
Overall, within the framework of the Clean Water program in 2020, eight stations were installed in the municipalities in the south and in the center of the Tomsk Region. Five of them purify water in water supply networks and three more operate in the format of "electronic wells".
The Clean Water program was launched in the region in 2017. Due to it, water treatment complexes began to be installed in various settlements of the Tomsk Region. Over the years, the provision of residents of Tomsk villages with clean drinking water has grown by 50%. In 2020, by the decision of Governor Sergei Zhvachkin, the budget of the Clean Water program has been increased by more than one and a half times compared to 2019 and amounts to 80 million rubles. Of that amount, 11.5 million will be spent on servicing 139 previously installed stations.