Innovation for Social Impact – WIN Newsletter

Objectives:

• Design a model WATSAN (water supply, sanitation/drainage, stormwater management and solid waste management) system for a town of 20,000 population based on available data and on-ground conditions.
• Convert this experience/process into an a state of the art IT-enabled design tool for wider application to other locations.

• Comprehensive survey of water supply using pipeline mapping, measurement of flow and pressure, and water quality, civil survey with elevations, using remote sensing/satellite data and mapping with open source GIS system.
• Social survey of 100% households including water connections, toilet positions with soak pits and septic tanks, willingness of household to join the sanitation programme and perception of residents towards current water supply. 
• Using above inputs, the team then designed (i) a comprehensive WATSAN system including an appropriate water supply network,  sewerage network, sanitation scheme, stormwater drainage network and solid waste management plan, using tools like hydraulic modeling, GIS etc., (ii) state of the art process and design tool set for wider application to other towns, (iii) training and other support modules to guide implementing agencies.

• CTARA is coordinating closely with Government authorities for implementation of the plans, including making final documents for tendering.
• Apply the process and tools to similar towns.
• Train consultants and local government officials to use the process and tools.

Interview - Prof.Bakul Rao, Professor, CTARA, IITB
(Project Head)
 

What were the drivers for proposing this project?  

• There are no design examples available for small towns and large villages especially for sanitation and a one-size fits all designs applicable for large cities are being pushed.
• Small towns and large villages need simple systems which can be implemented and operationalized during the low capacity staff available with them.
• The engagement of the elected representatives and general public is necessary during the design rather than a consultancy mode where the general public is not aware of the design exercise being conducted.

• People are aware of the geo-environmental problems existing in their town/village and if given a chance will voice it and the same can be incorporated into designs.
• Engagement with local elected representatives and local colleges enhances the commitment and responsibility.

• Manish Kumar*, R. Goswami, A.K. Patel, M. Srivastava, N. Das. (2020) “Scenario, Perspective and Mechanism of Arsenic and Fluoride Co-occurrence in the groundwater: A critical Review” Chemosphere, Vol 249  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.12612
• K. Taki, S. Choudhary, S. Gupta and Manish Kumar* (2020). Evaln of Geotech. Prop. of Municipal Sewage Sludge for Sust. Utilizn, Jrnl. of Cleaner Prodn.Vol 251 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.119723
• S. Mukherjee, N. Raval, S.P. Sahoo, Manish Kumar* (2019) Alginate beads and Oleic coated Iron nanoparticles mediated Arsenic removal from aqueous solution: A Groundwater in-situ remediation perspective, AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, California. USA 9^th-13^th Dec 2019. (Oral Presentation)
• Thakur A, Mukherjee S, Manish Kumar, (2019) Adsorption of As, Pb and Cd on functionalized silica: A low cost ecofriendly approach for agro wastewater treatment, Water and Devlp. Congress and Exhibition (IWA 2019), 1^st – 5^th Dec. 2019, Colombo, Sri Lanka. (Poster Presentation)
• Mankad, Jaivik; Borse, Dinesh; Das, Laya; Padhiyar, Nitin and Srinivasan, Babji, “Devlp. of operational resilience metrics for Water Distribn. systems”, in Resilience, Response, and Risk in Water Systems: Shifting Mgmt. and Natural Forcings paradigms, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2020. https://legacy.iitgn.ac.in/publication.htm 
• Rahul M.,  Sai, M., Joshi, A., Das, L, Mohapatra M. and Babji Srinivasan, Sensor placement for Leak Localization in Water Distribn. Networks using Machine Learning accepted for presentation in IEEE sponsored NCON 2020 conf. in Pattaya Thailand, Mar 11-14, 2020, https://icdamt.ict.up.ac.th/

• Dr. Jadeja Y., Dr. Bhimani S., Karithiya G., Kankavati Sandstone Aquifer Mapping and Attempts on Water Scarcity -A Case Study on Groundwater Management in Kutch Dist, Gujarat, National Conf. and Field Workshop on ‘Recent Studies on The Geology of Kachchh Basin’ organized by Dept of Earth and Envir. Sci., K.S.K.V. Kachchh Univ., Bhuj, Dec 2018.
• Dr. Bhimani, S,¹  Dr. Jadeja, Y. ², Mr. Karthiya, Water Security through Participatory Groundwater Management in Mundra-Mandvi Block, Kutch District, 7^th Intl. Groundwater Conf. on Groundwater vision-2030, New Delhi, Dec 2017, Organized by: National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee and Central Groundwater Board, India, with Assocn. of Global Groundwater Scientists, and Texas A & M Univ., USA
• Bakul Rao, (2020), “Need for integrated planning of envir. services for small town- a case study” Ist Intl. Conf. on Urban Science and Engg. held at IIT Bombay, 28^th- 29th Feb, 2020 (Poster and abstract)
• Bakul Rao (2020), “Exploring the facts associated with semi urban areas of India by household social survey – a case study, 35th Intl. conf. on Solid Waste at Annapolis (MD), Washington titled. (Oral and Poster presentation)/ Paper being published in conference proceedings

• Kranti Vora (2019), “Ideas and Innovations in Technology, Methodology of a large Maternal and Child Health Demographic Surveillance System (MCHDSS) in marginalized communities”, Intl. Jrnl. of Advance Res.,  ISSN: 2454-132X (V5,Issue-4) 2019 https://www.ijariit.com/manuscripts/v5i4/V5I4-1142.pdf
• Kranti Vora (2020):  “Population Characteristics of Maternal and Child Health Demographic Survey (MCHDS) Gujarat 2019”, Asian Journal of Pregnancy and Childbirth, Vol 3(1): 10-19, 2020;  http://www.journalajpcb.com/index.php/AJPCB/article/view/3010