City Corporate & Business Plan - Municipal

Chapter ñ 12 Final Report: Ambur Municipality
Infrastructural projects:
Water supply project
1. As regards water supply projects, the consultant proposes using available
UGSS project
local sources (surface water) in lieu of capital intensive projects from far off
sources. The enforcement of RWH in all buildings is a commendable initiative,
which has proven successful in improving the quality and quantity of ground
water table according to a recent study. Rejuvenation and protection of
water bodies and recycling, reuse of water is also a major issue to be
addressed in this regard. Participation of SHGS, voluntary organizations,
resident welfare associations need to be sought.
1. Highly engineered and mechanized conventional sewage treatments require
large Capital Investments, demand high maintenance costs and are not
feasible for the developing countries like ours. Capital intensive and highly
technological waste disposal solutions, utilizing indiscriminate collection and
large-scale disposal, do not consider the value of recovering organic waste
resources and do not promote recycling. The land required for the disposal of
treated wastewater in the conventional treatment systems is not readily
available. Alternative treatment systems like Root zone treatment methods
could be used.
2. GoTN may also encourage recycle of water, to meet requisite standards
rather than let them out into streams or sewage farms. This will not only
promote water recycling, but also resource recovery of minerals.
Integrated Water Resources Management Plan (IWRM) ñ The solution.
As a general rule, in the past with smaller populations, less intense economic
activity and with less affluent societies demanding much less water, supply of the
resource was usually much greater than demand for it. In such circumstances
water for agriculture, for industry, for domestic and all other uses could be
managed separately there being sufficient water to accommodate all needs
and there being little competition between uses and between users.
As populations have grown, as food production has increased, as economic
activity has developed and as societies have become more affluent, so
demand for water has burgeoned. The traditional fragmented or purely sectoral
approach is no longer viable and a more holistic approach is essential. This is the
rationale for the Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) approach
that has now been accepted internationally as the way forward for efficient and
sustainable development and management of the worldís limited water
resources and for coping with conflicting demands.
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