Tata Steel Mining Limited to Conduct Water Audits at its Plants

SEATTLE (Scrap Monster): Tata Steel Mining Limited announced that it has decided to conduct water audits at five of its facilities in the state of Odisha, India. The exercise, carried out in partnership with New Delhi-based The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), is aimed at conserving water and ensuring efficient use of the resource.

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The comprehensive audit will cover quality profiling, identification of water losses and leakages. It will help the company in developing an integrated water management strategy, which in turn will optimize the efficient use of water and improve the productivity of the resource at its facilities.

In addition, the company has partnered with Karnataka-based water solutions provider, FluxGen Engineering Technologies to install AquaGen mechanism to reduce consumption of the resource. Incidentally, the state-of-the-art mechanism will offer a single-window access system to digital data of the entire water infrastructure.

Pankaj Kumar Satija, Managing Director, Tata Steel Mining Limited said that the company is focused on zero down groundwater withdrawal and a 30% reduction in intake of surface water by 2030. As a first step, the company will deploy AquaGen at its Sukinda chromite mine in Jajpur and ferroalloy plant at Athagarh in Cuttack district.