Solve your Water Shortage Problems forever.. Become a Water Self-Sufficient Community

In these times of energy efficiency, it is important to do all we can to make changes that allow us to conserve or reuse those natural resources that are at our disposal. Till the city seeks only to exploit rivers and not to manage catchments and keep rivers flowing, the reservoir goes dry and such events are likely to occur. What should the builders, developers and residents of such layouts do for water supply and sanitation? It is possible to make your layout complete sustainable for water and sanitation without depending on private tankers or the city suppliers.

Checklist for Becoming Self-Sufficient in Water Supply

• Make rainwater harvesting mandatory in every house. The household should either store or recharge every drop of water falling on the plot.

• Adopt recharge structures on storm water drains so that every drop of water from the common amenities area like roads, parks and playgrounds is collected and recharged.

• Awareness Programs or Educate the residents on water consumption and sewage treatment and encourage conservative use of water.

• Only community borewells should be drilled in your layout and water distributed equally to all plots for construction as well as for domestic consumption. Ban the drilling of individual borewells in the layout.

• Calculate the production cost of water, collection and treatment of sewage and collect money on a volumetric tariff basis to recover full costs.

• Keep a record of all water and sanitation assets in both map and written form with the association. Even failed borewells need to be maintained as informative data for suitable planning.

• Adopt a simple landscaping system which is tree based and which does not demand more water than available through treated sewage. Landscapes can demand enormous water if badly designed.

• Treat sewage to levels which it can be reused for non-potable purpose and ensure that no waste-water is wasted. Create an efficient decentralized sewage collection and treatment system in your layout.

• Create a storage system and network capable of delivering 24/7 water supply at a residual pressure of 10 meters and with BIS 10500 standard water quality.

• Employ the best skills and technologies for they are the cheapest and most sustainable in the long run in maintaining and using the assets created for water supply and sanitation