Preserving, Enhancing and Improving Water Resources of India

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Israeli water heroes come to Marathwada's rescue

https://www.mid-day.com/articles/israel ... e/21296181
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https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ne ... 136203.cms
NEW DELHI: Jal shakti via salt water. With the prime minister making countrywide sufficient clean water supply by 2024 a top priority, and water shortage in major urban centres grabbing headlines, Niti Aayog is working on a plan to exploit India’s vast coastline and its marine waters by desalinating sea water and supplying it to population centres via a network of pipelines.

The plan is to set up floating desalination plants in marine waters under India’s command or set up plants along the country’s 7,800-km coastline. Under international law, territorial sea of a sovereign state extends to 12 nautical miles from its coastline and the maritime exclusive economic zone (EEZ) can be up to 200 nautical miles. India’s maritime EEZ is estimated to be 1.63 million square km. Niti Aayog’s plan is also energy efficient, as it seeks to use solar energy or ocean energy for the project
They should make RWH mandatory in every city first. Maybe even that won't be enough.
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https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/busin ... 80631.html
The myth :eek: of water scarcity in India was shattered a few weeks ago, when the Central Water Commission (CWC) finally released a report that was kept under wraps for some time

The recently-released report confirms the estimates that had been made by the CWC all along – but like most other reports, these, too, were seriously disputed by the Niti Aayog (and even the Planning Commission). It would appear that stories about water scarcity could spawn several water-related businesses (including desalination, which we shall cover later) that would suit several vested interests.
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https://www.business-standard.com/artic ... 251_1.html
The investments will be made in the various verticals such as pipes, EPC, water treatment pumps and valves, cement, among others, according to the report.

"Our study of sample projects in water and sanitation and interactions with water-related policy experts indicate per capita investment spending could range around Rs 8,000-9,000 for providing piped water access. This would amount to the spending of at least Rs 5.6 trillion-6.3 trillion over FY20-25, and would be almost double of the spending on water and sanitation over FY14-19," the report said.
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Heavy flooding in Assam as the Brahmaputra floods yet again. Somehow we are unable to take up a great civil engineering project to efficiently store and direct all these flood waters to where its needed.
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https://www.financialexpress.com/econom ... i/1676244/
Stressing on the need to conserve water, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that the centre and the states will have to work together to save water and provide it to every household. He said that under the Jal Jeevan Mission, clean water will be provided to all. Addressing the nation on the occasion of the 73rd Independence Day from the ramparts of the Red Fort in the national capital, Prime Minister Modi said that the government had allocated Rs 3.5 lakh crore for the project and the work on the Jal Jeevan Mission will progress with great vigour in the years to come. “The movement towards water conservation has to take place at the grassroots level. It cannot become a mere Government programme. People from all walks of life have to be integrated in this movement,” Modi said in his first Independence Day speech after getting re-elected.
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http://mowr.gov.in/flipebook/jal-charch ... #features/
JAL CHARCHA - JUNE 2019
Department of Water Resources, RD & GR
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https://www.livemint.com/news/india/ind ... 91964.html
India to divert excess waters under Indus treaty to irrigate own land
India is working on exercising its rights to stop excess water flowing to Pakistan under the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 to irrigate its own lands, Jal Shakti minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said.
The move to harvest excess water comes against the backdrop of India working on a plan to divert the waters of Ujh, which is one of the main tributaries of the Ravi river that flows into Pakistan. This is also of strategic importance to India, given that control over river water flow acts as a force multiplier during times of aggression.
“We got the waters of Ravi, Beas and Sutlej; they got the waters of Jhelum, Chenab and Indus. The water of the first three rivers and their tributaries that we get is our absolute right. If we construct irrigation projects on those waters and tap their potential, Pakistan can’t raise a question, which they try to do, but that’s illegal," he added.

With an eye on Pakistan, India is also expediting other strategically important hydropower projects in Jammu and Kashmir such as 850-megawatt (MW) Ratle, 800MW Bursar, 1,000MW Pakal Dul, 624MW Kiru and 540MW Kwar in the Union territory following the reorganization of the terror-hit state.
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Still considering it?


Can I ask where will this water go?
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There was a lot of news about the "Rally for Rivers" launched by Sadhguru couple of years ago, focusing on Cauveri river basin to start with. Many of the things he spoke about, especially on increasing tree based agriculture in catchment areas and along the river courses made sense to me.

Did any thing come out of it?
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As usual most infrastructure in India is built to cater to a CAPEX spend rather than an OPEX or lifecycle spend. Infrastructure like Water Treatment plant and waste water treatment plant is built but never operated by municipalities. After the initial inauguration and nice pocket lining of CAPEX spend of all involved the structure is pretty much abandoned
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tandav wrote:As usual most infrastructure in India is built to cater to a CAPEX spend rather than an OPEX or lifecycle spend. Infrastructure like Water Treatment plant and waste water treatment plant is built but never operated by municipalities. After the initial inauguration and nice pocket lining of CAPEX spend of all involved the structure is pretty much abandoned
Tandav Saar,
can you give an example of where the water treatment plant and waste water treatment plant were opened with a lot of fanfare but are not being used. I have seen some openings of the same in telangana by KTR, the CM's son who is also in charge of the municipalities and panchayati raj along with IT.

My assumption is that these plants are going to be run for waste treatment and these are not something ordinary folks go in to cross check as a walk in the park. So my question is not a rhetorical one, so to say.

Did you come across any cities wasting these and if so can you point out the same with links.

thanks,
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venkat_kv wrote:
tandav wrote:As usual most infrastructure in India is built to cater to a CAPEX spend rather than an OPEX or lifecycle spend. Infrastructure like Water Treatment plant and waste water treatment plant is built but never operated by municipalities. After the initial inauguration and nice pocket lining of CAPEX spend of all involved the structure is pretty much abandoned
Tandav Saar,
can you give an example of where the water treatment plant and waste water treatment plant were opened with a lot of fanfare but are not being used. I have seen some openings of the same in telangana by KTR, the CM's son who is also in charge of the municipalities and panchayati raj along with IT.

My assumption is that these plants are going to be run for waste treatment and these are not something ordinary folks go in to cross check as a walk in the park. So my question is not a rhetorical one, so to say.

Did you come across any cities wasting these and if so can you point out the same with links.

thanks,
The Water treatment plants (WTP) are being run as the product is supplied to a G2C customer. However the waste water treatment plants (WWTP/STP) are not being run as the product is being discharged into environment and there is no consumer.

Municipal authorities have no money even for the electricity needed to run the blowers and pumps. The very reason that Public is not allowed to freely inspect the WWTP is the reason they do not work. So much so I was planning to create an NGO to run these assets with CSR funding
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tandav wrote:
venkat_kv wrote: Tandav Saar,
can you give an example of where the water treatment plant and waste water treatment plant were opened with a lot of fanfare but are not being used. I have seen some openings of the same in telangana by KTR, the CM's son who is also in charge of the municipalities and panchayati raj along with IT.

My assumption is that these plants are going to be run for waste treatment and these are not something ordinary folks go in to cross check as a walk in the park. So my question is not a rhetorical one, so to say.

Did you come across any cities wasting these and if so can you point out the same with links.

thanks,
The Water treatment plants (WTP) are being run as the product is supplied to a G2C customer. However the waste water treatment plants (WWTP/STP) are not being run as the product is being discharged into environment and there is no consumer.

Municipal authorities have no money even for the electricity needed to run the blowers and pumps. The very reason that Public is not allowed to freely inspect the WWTP is the reason they do not work. So much so I was planning to create an NGO to run these assets with CSR funding
Tandav Saar,
It looks like you have had bad experience. there are myriad reasons why a waste water treatment plants don't run,
1. reasons being apathy - the elected officials or the bureaucrats don't put in high list of their priorities.
2. electricity available - electricity is generally given to farmers, industrialists and households. so these are again lower in the order of things.
3. The equipment itself has to work when used regularly. As the waste treatment sometimes runs at a stretch to treat the waste water with respect to the quantity being run while a few other times runs at half the installed capacity either due to the equipment repair/servicing or quantity of waste water treatment.

All this points to winning elections where running waste water treatments might not fetch enough votes compared to giving sops, electricity to other areas.
But again I am asking if you had a state or area in mind as not all states are at the same level with respect to execution, priorities, electricity available etc.
The info can be availed if you want using a PIL too on the reasons. It might be helful as to what you might need additionally when you decide to run them yourselves as a CSR.
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https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePa ... ID=1739092
Ministry of Jal Shakti
Water Resources Atlas for India
Posted On: 26 JUL 2021 4:42PM by PIB Delhi
The ‘River Basin Atlas of India’ is an outcome of joint project ‘Generation of Database and implementation of Web Enabled Water Resources Information System (India-WRIS) in the country’, was published in 2012 by the Central Water Commission (CWC) and Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). This is a comprehensive publication which gives detailed information of major water resources projects along with the location of all hydrological observation sites including major dams, barrages etc. in all the river basins of India.

‘Watershed Atlas of India’, published in 2014 is one of the outcomes under India-WRIS project using large scale drainage network, Digital Elevation Model (DEM) and other ancillary data. It depicts distribution of water-sheds in basins and sub-basins of the country along with its major water resource assets, hydrological observatories, terrain characteristics, rainfall variability and land use / land cover. These atlases are available at website: https://indiawris.gov.in/wris/#/atlas.

CWC with support from National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), Hyderabad, has carried out the study namely ‘Reassessment of Water Availability in India Using Space Inputs’ in 2019 utilizing the latest space based inputs like Land Use Land Cover maps from NRSC and Precipitation & Temperature datasets from Indian Meteorological Department (IMD).

Further, National Water Informatics Centre (NWIC) was set up by the Government in March, 2018 to be the central repository of water resources data of the country. In-line with its mandate, NWIC is maintaining spatial, non-spatial, time-series and static hydro-meteorological data like rainfall, river water levels & discharge, ground water level, water quality, soil moisture, climatic, geological and other geomorphological data.

Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) has taken up the National Aquifer Mapping and Management (NAQUIM) Programme for studying and mapping of aquifers and preparation of management plans. A National Inter-departmental Steering Committee (NISC) has been constituted for providing guidance in implementation of NAQUIM programme. In addition, a Central Level Expert Group (CLEG), chaired by Chairman, CGWB and having Joint Secretary Level Officers from relevant Ministries/Departments of Central Government, Secretaries from State Governments/UTs, as well as academicians/ professionals from IITs and other expert organizations involved in ground water sector has been constituted by Department of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation for overall coordination of the assessment of ground water resources of the country by the CGWB jointly with the State/UT Departments.

This information was given by the Union Minister for Jal Shakti, Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat in a written reply in Rajya Sabha today.


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tandav wrote:
venkat_kv wrote:
The very reason that Public is not allowed to freely inspect the WWTP is the reason they do not work. So much so I was planning to create an NGO to run these assets with CSR funding
tandav Saar,
forgot to add this line last time. Good luck on your endeavor to actually take charge and run the waste water treatment plant as a CSR or in general. Please also let us know about your experiences and issues faced if any so we can also be educated on the practicality of the situation.
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