TY - BOOK AU - Karen, R. D. AU - Bandopadhyay, Saswat (Guide) TI - Feasibility study of 24*7 water supply in Indian cities : a case of Ahmedabad city (Also available on CD) U1 - P TH-0979 PY - 2007/// N1 - Executive Summary Chapter I: Introduction 1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 Background 2 1.3 Global Scenario 3 1.4 Indian Scenario 4 1.5 Need of continuous system 5 1.6 Research Questions 6 1.7 Aim 7 1.8 Objectives and Focus of the Research 7 1.9 Scope and Limitations: 7 1.10 Methodology 7 1.11 Report Structure 8 Chapter II: Literature Review 2.1 Literature Review 9 2.2 Vision: 24x7 Supply for Urban India by 2015 12 2.3 Roadmap for 24x7 supply 12 2.4 Adoption of the strategy: 13 2.4.1 Find out Key Issues 13 2.4.2 Decision on the Key Issues: 14 2.4.3 Strategy Preparation: 14 2.5 Confirmation of the strategy 14 2.6 Water Demand Management 15 2.7 Water demand management by Water Conservation programme 15 2.7.1 Case study-1; Durham, North Carolina 15 2.7.2 Case study-2; Southwest Florida 16 2.7.3 Case study-3; Santa Barbara County, California 16 2.7.4 Case study-4; Town of Carry, North Carolina 16 2.7.5 Education Programs by American Water Works Association 17 2.8 By managing the water losses in the system network 17 2.9 Managing leakage by District Metered Areas: 20 2.9.1 Introduction of District Meter Area: 20 2.9.2 The role of DMA management 21 2.9.3 Estimating of leakage -The Concept 22 2.10 Demand management by Institutionalize measure 24 2.10.1 Pricing and Cost Recovery 24 2.10.2 Assess Household Willingness to Pay (WTP) 24 2.10.3 The Contingent Valuation Method 25 2.10.4 Willingness to Pay Assessment In India 26 2.10.5 Contradiction 27 Chapter III: Case Study 3.1 Background 28 3.2 Case Study -I - Hyderabad 28 3.2.1 City Profile 28 3.2.2 Water supply Performance 30 3.2.3 HMWSSB`s Goal 30 3.2.4 Case Study -1 -Kukatpally 9th Phase colony area 31 3.2.5 Case study -2 - Adikmet Area 32 3.2.6 Water Infrastructure 33 3.2.7 Criteria for Selecting Pilot Area 34 3.2.8 Setting up a District Metering Area 35 3.2.9 Essential Implementing Steps to be involved 36 3.2.10 Source of Water and Distribution 36 3.2.11 Storage capacity, Water Distribution and Pumping 36 3.2.12 Operating System 37 3.2.13 Unaccounted-for-water through Metering 37 3.2.14 Formation of UFW division 38 3.2.15 Installation of Improved Consumer Meters 40 3.2.16 Reduction in Transmission System Losses 41 3.2.17 Updating Consumer Database 43 3.2.18 Liaisons with other Public Bodies 43 3.2.19 Pressure Management 45 3.2.20 100% safe water concept 46 3.2.21 Conservation Consciousness 46 3.2.22 Tariffs for Water Supply in HMWS&SB 47 3.3 Case Study II -Delhi 3.3.1 General practice 47 3.3.2 Rapid Diagnosis Assessment 48 3.3.3 Theme 48 3.3.4 Water balances 48 3.3.5 Roadmap 49 3.3.6 Caution: 49 3.3.7 Benefit: 50 3.3.8 Establishment of District Meter Areas 50 3.3.9 Pressure management: 50 3.3.10 Active Leakage Control (ALC) policy 51 3.4 Case Study-III -Phnom Penh Water Works Agency 51 3.4.1 General Information 51 3.4.2 Urbanization of Phnom Penh 51 3.4.3 Background of Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority 51 3.4.4 Situation of P.P.W.S.A in 1993 52 3.4.5 Commercial Situation of PPWSA: 52 3.4.6 Financial Situation 53 3.4.7 Remedial Actions 53 3.4.8 Change by reforms 57 3.5 Opinions from Experts 58 3.5.1 Important steps to be followed 59 3.5.2 Common Strategy 59 3.6 Conclusions 60 3.6.1 Component for 24x7 Water Supply Systems 60 3.6.2 City Remedies: 61 Chapter IV: Study Area 4.1 About Ahmedabad Water supply 63 4.2 Status of Water supply 64 4.2.1 Future requirement 64 4.3 Treatment facility 65 4.3.1 Future Planning 66 4.4 General 67 4.4.1 Water & sewerage charges 67 4.4.2 Production Cost of Water 68 4.5 Selection Of Pilot Area 68 4.5.1 Pilot Area 68 4.5.2 Infrastructure Status 71 4.5.3 Topography 71 4.5.4 Land use within the Plot Area 71 4.5.5 Population 71 4.5.6 Water Demand 72 4.5.7 Allowance for Leakage 73 4.5.8 Water Allocation 74 Chapter V: Study Analysis 5.1 Introduction 75 5.2 Income Distribution 75 5.3 Existing scenario for uses of water in the existing supply system 77 5.4 Water Tariff for Different Option 80 5.4 Technical Feasibility 86 5.4.1 Impact of 24x7 supply on Infrastructure cost 86 5.4.2 Impact of 24x7 supply on Gross Demand due to Leakage 87 5.4.3 Pressure and Leakage Management Options 88 5.5 Financial Feasibility 89 5.6 Synopsis 98 Chapter VI: Conclusions & Recommendations 6.1 Conclusions 99 6.2 Study Findings 99 6.3 Most Feasible Area for 24x7 water supply 100 6.4 Further Steps required for Up-scaling the 24x7 water supply in AMC 101 6.4.1 Selection Criteria for Demo-Pilot area 102 6.4.1 Technical Exercise 102 6.4.3 Institutional Reforms 103 6.4.4 Commercial and Financial Reforms 103 6.4.5 Organization Reforms 104 6.4.6 Information-Education-Commercial Strategy 104 6.5 Scope for Further Work 106 References 107 Annexure ER -