University Water Conservation Project: India's Challenges

This project delves into the critical issue of water conservation in India, examining the increasing demand for water due to population growth, economic expansion, and agricultural needs. It highlights the challenges posed by water scarcity, pollution, and inefficient water management practices. The project proposes a comprehensive approach that includes controlling water wastage in metropolitan cities, managing floodwater, and preventing illegal groundwater extraction. It emphasizes the importance of implementing technologies like UV and reverse osmosis systems for water purification. The project also outlines business opportunities for companies to develop and provide water-efficient products and services, along with the need for government initiatives and community involvement to ensure the success of water conservation efforts. The project addresses business risks and mitigation strategies, emphasizing the importance of proper planning, transport management, and technological solutions. The vision is to provide effective water resource management, protect water resources, and implement new methods with enhanced infrastructure. It also highlights the importance of human supervision and employee loyalty to ensure the successful execution of the project. The scope involves the analysis of water usage for different purposes and the construction of proper channel systems for the continuous flow of water. The project also analyzes the business context, highlighting the existing initiatives by companies and government authorities. This project provides a detailed overview of the water crisis in India and offers practical solutions for a more sustainable future.

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Table of Contents
Business Requirements..............................................................................................................3
Background............................................................................................................................3
Business opportunity..............................................................................................................4
Project Aim, Objectives:........................................................................................................4
Customer needs:.....................................................................................................................5
Summary of Project objectives:.............................................................................................5
Market needs:.........................................................................................................................6
Business Risks and mitigation:..............................................................................................6
Vision of the Solution:...............................................................................................................7
Vision Statement:...................................................................................................................7
Major features:.......................................................................................................................7
Assumptions:..........................................................................................................................8
Scope and limitations:................................................................................................................8
Business context:........................................................................................................................9
Priorities of the dimension of the Project:............................................................................10
Human Resources:...................................................................................................................10
Roles and Responsibilities:..................................................................................................10
Project Management:...............................................................................................................11
Deliverables:........................................................................................................................11
Dependencies:......................................................................................................................11

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Estimated Schedule:.............................................................................................................12
Expected outcome:...................................................................................................................12

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Business Requirements
Demand of water is increasing gradually in this world, many organizations do
struggle for water when they require to run their business. Everywhere, the business field is
facing challenges because of the huge global population and growing economies (Bhan and
Behera 2014). Due to which there are higher demands on already exhausted water supplies.
Water is required in a huge quantity for agricultural purpose, agricultural runoff is one of the
causes of pollution as it contains fertilizers, pesticides and animal waste and it can
contaminate the source of water which are required for drinking purpose (Parihar et al. 2016).
There are also some other forms of pollution which are intensifying the scarcity of water
(Hoekstra 2014). This scarcity is raising the prices and amplifying the level of modulation
and creating competition among different stakeholders for accessing the source of water.
Background
Across different regions of India People have faced many challenges in related to
water either excess of water due to flood and heavy rainfall or scarce water due to varied land
topography. Yet the problems have been managed since ages, there were some efficient
traditional methods to conserve water (Ghosh et al.2015). Katta, a temporary structure made
with bounded mud and with locally available stones across rivers and streams, it was cost
effective method. Sand bores was another technique used for extracting water, in this method
sand particles act as water filters by keeping the salt content at bottom level and pure water is
flown out with force (Yannopoulos et al. 2015). This whole set-up costs around INR 6000
with less effort of maintenance.
For household utilization and drinking purpose, water were stored in reservoirs called
Talabs. And the reservoir occupied the area around five ‘bighas’ (some square feet). Unique
step-wells were once a part of ancient times for storing water in Rajasthan, in this method

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rain water is stored in man-made tanks which would then penetrate into the ground and the
water level of aquifers (Singh, Thakur and Singh 2013). The sequence of layered steps helped
to minimise the evaporation of water. There are also other ancient methods like Baoli, Kund,
Bhandara Phad, Kuhls , etc.
Since 2000, World Bank has supported 36 million people in many villages of around
40,000 to acquire better access to drinking water (Singh and Turkiya 2013). As the
community support was strong, the cost of infrastructure was lowered and had lot of savings
for the state funds.
Business opportunity
For the companies, to achieve the goal of operating with more productivity with less
access of water is building an opportunity and also it’s a great requirement for the society
(Cosgrove and Rijsberman 2014). Many companies or organizations has taken initiatives to
build products and develop services that can assist the customers of the business to raise their
productivity of water (Cole 2014). As technologies are evolving, the irrigation technologies
as well as the plant management techniques has also evolved for better production of crop
and greater amount of crops. For making benefits from the business out of improving
efficiency of water is quite struggling concept(Manju and Sagar 2017). Selling of equipment
and components are some of the successful methods to provide benefits and even selling
solutions to the customers to reduce the water usage is done by the successful providers.
Project Aim, Objectives:
In metropolitan cities, there existed many high raised buildings therefore, there is
huge extraction of ground water as a result the ground water level is decreasing at an
alarming rate (Venkatachalam 2015). Since there is water crisis, illegal extraction method of
ground water is followed by people to fulfil the necessities (Fishman, Devineni and Raman

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2015). Action should be taken to measure the ground water extraction by the high raised
buildings by placing measuring instrument on the water extraction methods. Many different
councils and authorities have taken initiatives to extract water of adequate amount for the
increasing population but still there is a gap in conserving because still in many parts of India
wastage of water is not controlled hence, the goal of conserving water can’t be achieved in
higher percentage.
The aim of this project to strictly control the wastage of water hence implementation
of new methods is required. And to preserve any kind of water resources, such as water of
flood, channelizing the water that are left uncontrolled, near roadsides. The measures would
help to conserve water.
Customer needs:
Although people are always suggested to do the less wastage of water but still it is not
maintained in many places. And if it is not controlled strictly then the day is very closer when
people would strive for drinking water (Biswas 2016). Therefore, this project would be
highly beneficial for the people. The customer needs would meet, if sufficient amount of
water is provided. So the project objectives are to restrict the wastage of water and providing
water to the nearer needy regions of India and if this plan further executed and expanded then
providing conserved water can be widened to various other parts of India.
Summary of Project objectives:
Adequate amount of water would be provided to the people living in high raised
building for certain time according to the necessity after that the users need to pay a certain
amount for extracting water as a result there would be constant checking of the usage and
control.

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Since many years India is facing disasters like flood due to high rise of water level
and heavy rainfall. The flood water can be used to preserve and supply to the needy regions
like desert areas of India. Whenever there is a problem of flood and water logging in huge
area then channelizing the water to the other neighbouring dry parts of area can be done.
Mass collection of those logged water with the help of tanks and migrating it to the people
living near desert areas after proper filtration. So that the water could be edible, UV
purification procedures can be used for filtering purposes.
Whatever amount of water is provided by municipality corporations of respective
areas, is not controlled by preventing the wastage. It has been seen that the corporation pipes
provide constant supply of water without controlling the opening of the pipes hence, constant
flow of water from the pipe leads to huge wastage. The corporation tankers have particular
capacity so if the water is provided according to the capacity after that flow would stop
automatically or can be done manually. And also there should be strict checking that the
cover of the tanks are locked properly so that the water does not get spilled.
Market needs:
Technologies to control the flow of water from the pipeline can increase the market
needs because many authorities are now looking for projects or strategies to control the
wastage of water and to conserve water. UV system for water purification purpose and along
with it, Reverse osmosis system is also required (Masschelein and Rice 2016). These
materials would be in high demand in future because of the crisis (Yang 2013). As this
project have the planning of using flood water for drinking purpose, lot of methods of
purification is needed for above mentioned purifications technologies.

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Business Risks and mitigation:
Risks can arise in every projects, but these can be reduced by evaluating properly.
Risk can arise while migrating the water tanks to the areas near deserts, so proper transport
system has to be managed. Checking measure should be taken to prevent leakage while
migrating. The risk assessment on these kind of assumptions can be applied. While
controlling the water system in municipality corporations it may happen that technology that
is helping to provide water only according to the capacity of the tanker, can get slower or get
damaged. Here the valid solution would be to do the manual operation of controlling. If any
supervisor is allocated over there then the manual checking of the flow of water through huge
pipe can be controlled.
Vision of the Solution:
The vision is to provide wastage management of water resources, to conserve water
protecting the water resource is required. This project would provide necessary
implementation methods with enhanced infrastructure.
Vision Statement:
Gradually the water resource is getting affected due to high demand, water crisis in
India is attributed to absence of proper planning by the Government and increased private
ownership (Srinivasan 2013). By the year 2050, population would increase to 1.5 billion
approximately and to meet demand of water for that much of population would be crucial but
not impossible. If strict measures are taken then meeting the requirement would be easier.
Major features:
This project plan involves:

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 Management of wastage of water.
 Preserving any kind of water resources such as flood water.
 Preventing the constant flow of water that are uncontrolled through proper
channelizing and utilizing it.
 Transferring the water that are mass collected from the logged water caused by flood.
 Strict checking of the increasing high raised buildings to prevent the illegal water
extraction and also provide solutions to avoid illegal actions.
Assumptions:
Apart from providing improved techniques if human supervising is kept for constant
monitoring of the implemented methods so that there would be proper regulation of those
methods and if problems arises then informing for improvement would just enhance the
speed of execution.
Moreover, this can create the opportunity for employment of many people who are
struggling hard to survive. As water is everyone’s need, there would be high percentage of
loyalty of the workers or employees.
The improved techniques and technologies would require skilled engineers and
controllers to execute these plans.
Scope and limitations:
The wastage management would help in conserving the water up to a great extent
(Surendran 2015). For strict checking active participation is needed. Firstly, before
proceeding towards the project the research is necessary focusing on the residential users and
the usage efficiency. Water used for agricultural purpose and in the industries takes up more
percentage of water, as a result, very few percentage remains for the purpose of drinking.
Therefore, to conservation of the remaining water is essential.

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The concept of constructing proper channel system for continuous flow water for
utilization would require many workers and employees to manage all these steps of
development. For the efficient performance of entire plan many technologies would get
involved like UV purification system and also enhanced techniques are used in some parts.
Proper analysis of the requirements is a must to proceed with this concept in different
regions. Followed by planning of a budget, execution all these ideas will be possible with
sufficient time span.
Business context:
Many companies like Pepsico. India, Cairn India and Government authorities have
initiatives for water sanitation and safe drinking water (Jose and Saraf 2013). Such as
providing RO technology to the rural population, construct of recharge pit, repairing of canals
for the local communities mainly by Pepsico. This project can help many companies and
even government authorities, to take a unique initiative for the wellbeing of the society. Since
it’s high time to protect the water resource in every possible way, the prevention of wastage
would accentuate the process of conserving water. Controlling the entire system of the project
would be beneficial for many companies because of the high demand of water. On observing
the demand it can be assumed that by 2030, demand will be twice the supply (Saleth 2016).
Therefore, this demand will compel users to use this wastage management system, as a result,
this project can make good place in market.
The major value of the Stakeholders will have increased productivity, staffs will have
enhanced organization for motoring purpose. The major interest is the improved implements
will proceed with beneficial impact on existing system and the staff must integrate the current
method upgrade.

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Priorities of the dimension of the Project:
Prioritization of the dimensions relevant to project is necessary (Zheng et al. 2013).
The overall schedule need to be created first, surveying the sites, design of the enhanced
system are the major dimensions that requires first priority. For obtaining improved system,
ordering of hardware is needed as soon as the design is made. Funding for the hardware,
labour, new techniques will be cost efficient and involvement of the residential users will
play a major role for this project. Upgrading the existing infrastructure will be cost efficient
and will also increase the availability of the water. The methods are very productive
according to the assumption and demand therefore, it would have margin of higher profit in
future.
Human Resources:
This section have elements for human interaction which is necessary for the
successful execution of this project (Cascio 2015). This consists of residential users,
expertise, and role of each team member. The mechanism of communication will concentrate
on how the members are communicating among themselves as well as the users.
Roles and Responsibilities:
The staffs that will be employed will have major responsibilities, such as to check the
proper channel construction to make it leakage proof, strict checking while migrating water
to other regions so that the containers does not get mishandled. Staffs should have good
working ability to maintain the strict checking of illegal extraction of ground water. The
process of mass collection of water would require many number of staffs to actively perform
that method. Preserving water source would be followed by proper filtration for successful
execution. And the small roles for preventing the wastage such as regulation of water supply

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by municipality corporations according to capacity of the container, checking of the tankers
before transferring to prevent the spilling.
Project Management:
This section of project management, emphasizes on the deliverables, roles,
responsibilities and priority wise dimensions. The upper level of the team would monitor the
roles of the staffs of lower level and will also handle the monitoring of techniques that will be
used. The managers will see all the sections of the project through its entire cycle thoroughly.
Few other members will concentrate on the documentation and implementation of the
techniques. More and more numbers of staffs are required for doing the survey of sites and
handling the configuration, application and testing.
Deliverables:
 All the details involved in project plan.
 Enhanced techniques for improvements.
 Schedule for all the checking that need to be done.
 Discarding the old methods in many areas for proper management.
Dependencies:
The following items are major dependencies:
 Detailed site survey to examine the project requirements.
 Delivering new equipment.
 Usage of the new and essential equipment.
 Checking of the migration process
 Employment
 Delivery of ultimate documentation.
 Removing the old methods that have been practised.

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Estimated Schedule:
During the first week Site survey need to be done followed by application of the
enhanced procedures. Then around 3rd week the equipment need to be ordered and received
which will consume, at least 1 week. Pre-staging process configuration and installing
hardware equipment will be done sequentially. Testing for the production is an important step
in this schedule.
Expected outcome:
The solution that have been proposed will enable the customers to efficiently manage
the water and its usage. Gradually many needy users will have access to water due to the
savings that will be done through this project. Apart from the goal of conservation of water, it
will also widen the opportunity for employment. As discussed earlier many number of staffs
are required in some stages for the successful execution and for this new employees or staffs
can be hired for managing of important sections as well as for working of the hardware
configuration. Monitoring the usage or wastage is the most important part of management,
therefore, if handled actively then execution will give good outcome.

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