NAGPUR, March 24: To mark week-long celebrations of World Water Day-2023, Orange City Water (OCW) organised a Walk-A-Thon with a motto of spreading awareness to “Save Water” & Judicious Use of Drinking Water on 24th March on the Walker Street in Civil Lines area .
Around 350 OCWians  men & women  across all 10 zones  participated in the event. During a 3Km walk on Walkers Street, started from Police Gymkhana with sloganeering and one-on-one meet with morning walkers to convey the message of water conservation, judicious use of drinking water to the citizens. Earlier some warm-up exercises and Zumba activities were conducted by Decathlon.
Mr. Sanjoy Roy- OCW CEO, Mr. KMP Singh -Director, Mr Lionel-Director, Mr Vinod Gupta, Mr Rajjith Ayyathan, Mr Amol Pande, Mr Kuldeep Singh, Mr Prakash Mahajan and all other HODs as well as Zonal Heads & Dy Zonal Heads of OCW participated in walk-a-thon.  Mrs Mithali Naidu and Ms Arwa Hussain in support of OCW HR & Admin Team members worked hard for the success of the programme.

: To mark the World Water Day Week celebrations The Nagpur Municipal Corporation, The Orange City Water, and The Green Vigil Foundation organised an engaging and save water awareness programs at Sonegaon slums (Laxmi Nagar Zone), Kachipura Slums (Dharampeth Zone) and Gondpura Slums (Mangalwari Zone) on March 22, 24 & 28 respectively.
During these three programs at three different slums , various events were organized for the community members such as a drawing competition, rangoli-making competition on water related topics. OCW employees through an informative street play demonstrated slum dwellers on “How to keep our drinking water clean ?” while students of Tirpude College of Social work performed a street play on saving water and using drinking water judiciously. The purpose of this initiative is to educate the community about safe water and drinking safe water by taking care of sanitation....

नागपूर : शहरातील जलवाहिनी, सांडपाण्याची पाइपलाइन लिकेज हाेणे, खराब हाेणे, फुटणे ही नित्याचीच बाब आहे. मग ही पाइपलाइन कुठे खराब किंवा लिकेज आहे, हे शाेधणे माेठी डाेकेदुखी ठरते. इथे खाेद, तिथे खाेदा करीत परिसरात खाेदकाम हाेते. मात्र ही डाेकेदुखी चुटकीसरशी सुटू शकते. एक छाेटे ॲप खाेदकाम न करता बसल्या जागी प्रशासनाला जलवाहिनीची समस्या नेमकी काेणत्या जागी आहे, हे अचूक सांगू शकेल.

राष्ट्रीय पर्यावरण अभियांत्रिकी संशाेधन संस्था ( नीरी)ने ‘रिस्क पिनेट २.०’ हे ॲप विकसित केले आहे. क्लिनिंग टेक्नाॅलाॅजी ॲण्ड माॅडेलिंग डिव्हिजनच्या वैज्ञानिक डाॅ. आभा सारगावकर आणि प्रधान वैज्ञानिक आशिष शर्मा यांनी हे ॲप विकसित केले. डाॅ. आभा यांनी गणितीय माॅडेल तयार केले तर शर्मा यांनी त्यानुसार साॅफ्टवेअर विकसित केले आहे. नागपूर महापालिकेसह नाशिक, चेन्नई, हैदराबाद, वर्धा येथे प्रशासनाने या ॲपवर यशस्वी प्रयाेग केला आहे. हे जीआयएसवर आधारित साॅफ्टवेअर असून, भारतीय परिस्थितीचा विचार करून बनविलेले देशतील एकमेव ॲप असल्याचा दावा आशिष शर्मा यांनी केला. हे पूर्णपणे तयार असून, व्यावसायिक उपयाेगासाठी रेडी असल्याचे त्यांनी सांगितले. ........

: “Cleanliness Drive” a joint initiative of NMC, OCW, UPAY and Green Vigil Foundation commenced on 04th November 2022 at IT park to take a small step towards the betterment of our environment, in which they spread the awareness among the residents of IT park about the importance of cleanliness and hygiene.
Under the CSR scheme, OCW is taking up similar activities in the entire Nagpur including livelihood initiatives for urban poor of the city.