| Topic : Urban Water Management: Challenges and options |
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Construction Planning & Management
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Question posted: 12 22 2009 09:18:00 +0000,
4 answers, 123 views, last activity
07 06 2010 20:18:08 +0000
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Workng as superintending engineer in Public Health Engg. Dept. of Govt. of Andhra Pradesh, India. Presently involved in Slum Development n MEPMA (Mission for Elimination of Poverty in Municipal Areas).
The key challenges in O & M of Water Supply in poor settlements in general are
- Lack of ownership among the benefishiries or service providers
- Lack of awareness in the local residents to raise their voice to demand better services
- Lack of empowernement to raise any issue / complaint regarding low service levels
- Convincing the Govt/ statutory bodies to get sufficient funds allocation for O &M of water supply to slum areas, as there wont be any revenue from these area.
- Some cost effective and innovative solutions are required, to ensure continuous water supply in the absence of adquate men and material to meet the O & M cost.
- Minimisation of standards like pressure and discharge may be one alternative to ensure minimal continous water supply to these areas
- Education and some level of enforcement is inevitable
- Taking the support and some help from NGOs and other community groups will help local bodies in many ways.
- Compelling the Govt to change its policies to prioritise the O & M plans and funds allocations is major step needed at this point of hour.
Explanation for the above points would be available in the subsequent replies
Regards
Sreenath
Sreenath amazing points. I support your answer. Thanks for sharing.
Keep sharing your knowledge.
:)
For any effective projets complete sucess in Slum areas The community participation and complete awareness education of projects benifits, its final outcomes to the slum dweellers specifically ladies odf that slum is must. If you are able to convince ladies of slun the message goes fast and become effective and penetrative
Water supplies aer classified as a surface and ground water supplies. The surface supplies are either from running streams such as river or from quiescent water such aslakes natural or artificial.The ground water supplies are obtained from springs ,infitration wells or galleries
The usual cotaminants of water are of mineral and dead organic matter may be present in solution or in suspension living organic may be micro or migrorganisms The micro-organisms may be piankotn or bacteria. The formar are Zoo or phyto ptankton according to weather they belong to the animal or plant Kingdom. Bacteriaaer unicellular plants which multiply by fission. They can grown on a culture mediumand are studied with difficulty under microscope.Plakton do not need a culture and can be easly studied under a microscope. In general bacteria make water unsafe while planktin rener water unpleasant
The main aim in purification of water used for drlnking purposes is to makethe water safe as free from the microbes which causes disease and to bring down the content of the other matter to a limit of toleration compatible with the sence of aesthetics . The main criterian for an industrial water supply is the maximum content of the various constituents chiefly minerals, the bacterial content being of aminor importance .
That branch of science which deals with the properties and characteristics of stream or flowing water is called Rheology and that which deals similarlyn with quiescent waters such as lakes is called limnology . The public health Engineer has to consider all the aspects of the nature of source and its bearing on the water quality to desire the best method of purification,necessary in this case.
The selectionof source fot a place is dependsnt on its reliability to yield adequate quantity of water according to demand and of water fit for the particular use entailing the least amount for the works connected with collection. purification, conveyance and distribution
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