Surat Municipal Corporation Partners with ABB India for Clean Water Supply in Surat
January 15, 2021 at 01:43 am EST
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Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC), the governing civic authority, has partnered with ABB India to further roll out next generation technology and support its vision of delivering continuous water supply across the city of Surat with the 24/7 Water Supply Scheme. These latest investments follow the success of the phase one digitalization upgrade of the entire water system which took place in 2018. Surat faces significant water demand from industrial sectors, with clusters of textile units consuming more than 450 million liters per day. Accordingly, the city is addressing the critical issue of optimum water usage across domestic, commercial, and industrial consumption. A digitally powered system boosted by safe and secure electrical distribution equipment from ABB India enables SMC to sustainably optimize the distribution of a critical natural resource like water across the city. A stable power supply also prevents water waste by identifying leaks through effective monitoring, while also supporting the supply of clean and uninterrupted water to one million residents across 38 sq km area. In order to boost the existing and conventional infrastructure, ABB has also provided the municipal corporation with facilities like a Water Distribution Station, Elevated Storage Reservoir, Rising main line and distribution network line along with a remotely installed SCADA system to provide a comprehensive view of all the data assets. ABB has partnered with SMC on this project with support from Shrirang Sales Corporation, one of the leading industrial groups in Gujarat. The collaboration of ABB's global technology solutions coupled with Shrirang Sales Corporation's local expertise, has played a critical role in making this project a reality.
ABB India Limited specializes in the design, manufacturing and marketing of industrial equipment. Net sales break down by family of products and services as follows:
- automation systems (62.4%): power protection system and fluids measurement instruments and control, control system of the production process (especially for oil and gas, chemical and pharmaceutical, marine, mining and paper industries) and robotics equipment;
- products and transmission systems and power distribution (37.6%): transformers, power distribution products of medium voltage (circuit breakers, switches, fuses, sensors, etc.) and high voltage (capacitors, cables, switches, etc.). Besides, the group proposes turnkey installation services of transmission systems.
At the end of 2022, the group has 25 plants located in India.