IIT Delhi’s’waste to wealth’ center to clean water bodies

摘要

The Indian Institute of Technology(IIT),Delhi partnered with the Denmark-based DESMI to setup’DESMI Centre of Excellence on Waste to Wealth’ at IIT Delhi.The MoU to set up the DESMI Centre of Excellence was signed by Henrik Sorensen,group CEO,DESMI,Denmark;Prof Ramgopal Rao,Director,IIT Delhi and Prof K VijayRaghavan,Principal Scientific Adviser,Government of India.The objective of the DESMI Center for Excellence(CoE)is the removal of floating debris from drains including Babarpur,Barapullah and other water bodies in Delhi and generate resource from the mixed waste feedstock collected.IIT Delhi and DESMI also proposed to work together to adapt,modify and create new mechanical tools to clean water bodies;the need for decentralized small scale solutions are the need of the hour and agreed to.It was proposed that partners will explore setting up a professionally-run entity with the participation of all the stakeholders.”We urgently need to clean our waterways which feed into our rivers and oceans.