Case-Studies:

India Programs of the Alliance to Save Energy

The Alliance to Save Energy began working in India in 1996 and has made remarkable progress within the first four years.

India Water Pollution PDF

Tirpur-Casestudy on Water

NEW Tirupur Area Development Corporation (NTADC), the special purpose vehicle (SPV) seeking to implement the Rs. 1,140-crore Tirupur water supply scheme

Rajasthan Textile Industry

Water and Energy Conservation in Textile Industries of Rajasthan, India

Activated Sledge Process PDF

Anerobic waste water treatment PDF

Coagulation-floculation PDF

Design of Hydro Cyclones PDF

Design of trickling filters PDF

Fixed bed treatment for sewage PDF

Ion Exchange process PDF

 

Case-studies on cities of India
Fiscal crisis dries water resources

CHANDIGARH, July 25 — With its own coffers empty, the Punjab Government is looking elsewhere to arrange funds for providing safe drinking water for villages suffering from water scarcity.

Treating sewage by aquaculture

India continues research into finding a use for one of its least coveted resources: the 15 million cubic metres of sewage it generates every day.

Ahmedabad Parivartan PDF

Urban Water Scenario in India

Black Burden Turned into Green Gold : Ganga Action Plan at Rishikesh

The Ganga Action Plan works in Rishikesh comprise, inter alia, sewerage works to tap the sewage outfalls and through appropriate pumping station, diversion of the sewage to a pond type STP at Lakkarghat between Hardwar and Rishikesh. Under the GAP, existing ponds were renovated and expanded by additional pondage to treat a flow of 6 mld sewage per day from the town of Rishikesh.

Sewage Disposal Project Transforming Urban Environment and Improving Quality of Life in Mumbai, India PDF

Mumbai (formerly Bombay) is a city of contradictions: extravagant homes and poor slums; luxury cars and crowded trains; international banks and cramped factories; spectacular but filthy beaches. However, the health costs of the sewage and sanitation problem are too high to ignore.  

 

10m3 ferrocement tank, Nagercoil, India

Introduction and background :This RWH system is an example of a suburban solution to inadequate water supply from the municipal authorities.

Improving Water Resources: the Deccan Trap in India
 

Women, water and community ownership

A case study of women's rights over drinking water resources Raisangadh village in Ahmedabad district.

Rajiv Gandhi national drinking water0 mission PDF

The Pani Panchayat Experiment

The experiment of organising the local populace to harness the available water resources for agriculture was initiated by Mr. V. B.Salunkhe in a drought prone area characterised by high levels of poverty in Pune district of Maharashtra. In order to optimally utilise the locally available meager water resource for protective irrigation and in order to fulfil the need of food and shelter of the local people on a sustained basis, initiative for water conservation and utilization of water by organised collectives of water users known as Pani Panchayat was taken by Mr. Salunkhe and his wife during the early 80s.

Water and Population Dynamics in a Rural Area of Tumkur District, Karnataka State

The Case Study from the State of Karnataka, India

Rural Water Supply: Simple Technology, Big Benefits for the Poor

We like handpumps because they give us safe, clean water. They also free us of the worry of power cuts and contamination that affect motorized pumpsets  and open wells." So reports a member of the panchayat, or local governing body, of Thiruvalanakadu, one of the villages in the northern part of the Indian state  of Tamil Nadu benefiting from the rural water supply component of the World Bank-assisted Tamil Nadu Agricultural Development Project.