BlueDrop Enviro featured in Industry Outlook Magazine

Editor’s Note

Protecting the ecosystem & speeding up the natural process of water purification

The water and wastewater management consulting services market is anticipated to reach $11.41 billion in 2025. The rearranging of operations by organizations as well as recovering from the impact of the pandemic hasresulted in restrictive containment measures and have in turn led to operational challenges are some of the factors driving the market growth. The rise in industrial & municipal waste owing to rapid urbanization is one of the major factors contributing to the growth of water and waste management consulting services.

Noticing the rapid growth of this market, we have come up with this special issue focusing exclusively on it.

The cover story of this issue features Bluedrop Enviro— a sustainable green solutions environmental company fully focused on the single objective of wastewater treatment and an expert in construction wetlands solutions. Bluedrop Enviro has invented solutions that are reliable, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly to address the issues of unsustainable treatment systems.

The issue also covers Biotech, a company that provides stateof-the-art equipment and the most feasible wastewater treatment scheme by sizing tanks/reactors and equipment as per suitability and optimum performance requirement. This is backed by the company’s decades of experience in this field, coupled with its vast data bank, skills of the personnel, and dynamics of its R&D program. The company offers Zero Liquid Discharge Solutions that recycle water and reduce raw water demand, lowering the negative water abstract. Also, featuring in this issue is Green Method Engineering — an approved ‘A Class’ consultant of the Kerala State Pollution Control Board and an approved consultant of the Kerala State Suchwita Mission. The company provides a range of water and wastewater treatment options designed to successfully address the needs and difficulties of treating water and wastewater.

Reading on, you will find more such stories on some of the other top players in this segment.

After studying this market landscape in-depth, we have zeroed in on the Top 10 companies that have excelled in this market with their innovative approach. Having proven their dedication to efficiency in order to meet customer expectations in an end-to-end manner, these companies have stood out from the crowd.

We look forward to receiving your feedback and suggestions.

Sudhakar Singh
Managing Editor
editor@theindustryoutlook.com

Contents & Contributors

Cover Feature

Redefining Wastewater Treatment to meet the ESG Goals

With the constantly increasing population and industrialisation, India is going through tremendous stress for fresh water and resulting complexities & costs related to wastewater management. Many industrialists, business owners, home owners, developers, and property managers struggle to have proper management/treatment of wastewater from their facilities. Improperly disposed sewage creates unsanitary conditions leading to disease, odours, flies, mosquitoes and other nuisances. This degrades residents’ quality of life and hurts property values. It is a situation that nobody wants to live with, but many are forced to cope with. It’s a common site across India that most waterbodies are polluted and Nalahs are obscene spreading foul odours all through their flow.

This is simply due to no treatment set up for wastewater in some cases while in other cases, the treatment facilities viz STPs and ETPs aren’t doing their job or not being operated. Complex electro-mechanical Treatment systems are prone to frequent repairs and maintenance and also cost significantly to operate them which the industries/communities/ institutions who have set them up are constantly challenged with. This in many cases results in bypassing of the wastewater and letting the wastewater flow into the nalahs, lakes & waterbodies. The net result has turned into a plaguing problem for the country with thousands of waterbodies polluted significantly costing quality of life, health challenges and resulting in unsafe ground water.

This is where the industry needed robust solutions and Bluedrop Enviro with a motto ‘Giving Water Second Life’ invented solutions that are reliable, cost-effective and environment friendly to address the issues of unsustainable treatment systems. Bluedrop STPs and ETPs have over 30 years of effective life which is a significant edge over the conventional mechanical systems. In contrast to smelly, complicated mechanical systems, the company thinks that wastewater can be effectively managed using Nature Baséd solutions such as Aerated WetlandsTM. These systems are built in such a manner that there is no water exposed during the treatment process, thus there are no odours and no potential for flies or mosquitos. Engineering advances such as Forced Bed Aeration TM integrated with the Wetland systems by Bluedrop dramatically reduce the area needed for these Nature Based solutions, allowing them to easily be configured in the context of site planning. With proper selection of vegetation and system components, these can be engineered into ‘Wetland Gardens’ that provide year-round perennial green areas/flower beds while performing their core function of water treatment.

Lake Rejuvenation/Restoration:
For lake & waterbody rejuvenation very advanced treatment methods that add to the lake eco system restoration are being deployed. This involves highly precise & calibrated aeration system along with effective enzymatic treatment which is capable of remediating years of sludge deposits & various pollutants. Again, well-engineered floating treatment wetlands become another integral part of this rejuvenation. Waterbodies can be rejuvenated even in the cases, where there is daily inflow of wastewater into the waterbody.

Operational Excellence

Found by Environmental enthusiasts and passionate entrepreneurs, Bluedrop Enviro as an Environmental Services company is jet focusedon Wastewater Treatment covering Sewage Treatment Plants (STP), Effluent Treatment Plants (ETP), Decentralized Wastewater Treatment Systems as well as Lake Rejuvenation technologies. Bluedrop distinguishes itself by offering a natural way of wastewater treatment with low Operations & Maintenance costs.

The Nature Based Solutions implemented by Bluedrop are very well appreciated by Indian Green Building Council (IGBC), Ministry of Environment & Forestry (MoEF) and Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). Bluedrop and its international partners have executed over 1400 wastewater treatment systems across all the continents and in various capacities for different industry segments like municipalities, food & hospitality industries, universities/ colleges, industrial parks, residential colonies/apartments, administrative offices, airport facilities and other.

Wet lands store carbon within their plant communities instead of releasing it to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, moderating global climatic conditions. Many case studies across the globe demonstrate that constructed Wetlands are true eco-systems which contribute to biodiversity, restoring ecological balance

It is clear that while most residential, commercial, institutional & industrial establishments are mandated by law to set up wastewater treatment facilities for the wastewater they generate, these entities are struggling to find sustainable solutions that are reliable, easy to operate, economical and environment friendly. These parameters form the foundation of sustainability. This is where Bluedrop’s work fits in bringing in the sustainability to wastewater treatment. Bluedrop systems reduce significant carbon footprint as they consume minimum energy while the wetlands serve another significant purpose of carbon sequestration being carbon sinks. There is minimal methane production, minimal sludge and less dependency on operator while treating the wastewater.

“Wetlands store carbon within their plant communities instead of releasing it to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, moderating global climatic conditions. Many case studies across the globe demonstrate that constructed Wetlands are true eco-systems which contribute to biodiversity, restoring ecological balance”, states Ganges Reddy, Founder, Bluedrop Enviro.

Looking at the Future
The Aerated Wetlands based Effluent Treatment Plants (ETP) and Sewage Treatment Plants (STP) built by the company are proving to be effective, user friendly & economical. So, they have gained alot of social acceptability and turning what used to be ugly, stinky treatment spaces into beautiful gardens. Company wants to expand its operations extensively in the industrial wastewater treatment and build wetlands that reduce the operational cost for industries. “At Bluedrop we educate, assist and enable organizations & communities to recreate nature based sustainable ways to revitalize much abused water”, concludes the Founder. The company is also working on several initiatives in rural segment where CSR funds are being deployed to convert the wastewater from villages into water for farming.