Kochi working to get private investment and alternative water resources

Q: Hello, So I found out that Kochi corporation is looking into private investiment and find more water resources for the city. How is this going?

David Oomen Mathews, Kochi

1st March 2015

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What the water network also needs is the audit at the city scale to understand the potential water sources, the ward-wise and sector-wise demand for water and the spatial variation of scarcity in the corporation area, according to a document drawn up by the institute.

Smitha Ravi, Kochi

6th March 2015

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You know, funnily enough these water are called Non revenue Water (NRW). And right now all the water body needs to do is to do network evaluation and optimisation of the water distribution network of the 50-year-old water distribution network or risk losing more water.

Amal Anthony, Kochi

6th March 2015

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Right now, for analysing the quality of water consumed, 100 water samples will be collected from various sources in different parts of the corporation for laboratory analysis. 200 MLD of water is supplied by the Kochi Water Authority everyday to the localities but actuall numbers differ because there are problems with the distribution units and a lot of water leaks out.

Krishna gowda, Kochi

5th March 2015

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Hey, A detailed house based survey has been proposed to understand the status of availability of drinking water in the wards of Kochi Corporation. I think this is going to be a very good step in the right direction.

Rajiv Unnithan, Kochi

5th March 2015

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So to keep the water loss from not happenning scientific and mathematical modelling of water resources, demand and forecast will be carried out to understand the issues including the extent of salinity intrusion in the area and to suggest mitigation recommendations,

Allen George, Kochi

4th March 2015

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That's not all, the water sources used right now are ground water drawn for irrigaion purposes, industry and domenstic consumption and the water supplied by tanker lorries and trucks. Also you know the improper usuage of ground water is robbing the city of water.

Naresh Valiathan, Kochi

3rd March 2015

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So the study is expected to suggest other areas where investments need to be made or generated to improve the water situation incase the scarcity gets too much as at present the city is mostly dependent on piped water supply by the Kerala Water Authority.

Ashwini Eradi, Kochi

3rd March 2015

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Right. The institute precisely has been asked to prepare a suitable water policy for the Kochi corporation. They are also asked to study the quality of the ground water and its forecast as to the longevity of it in the city area.

Vivek Varrier, Kochi

2nd March 2015

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Hello, The depart of wate studies in the School of Communication and Management Studies have been given the opportunity to complete the research and submit it to the corporation. The head of the institute Sunny George has actually been very intent about working on this.

Vijaykrishna Nayar, Kochi

1st March 2015

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Yes. So a Water audit and some GIS mapping of water scarcity in all of the wards in the city will help the corporation to find out the demands and prepare alternate plans for extreme situations when there is no water, according to water management experts.

Arjun Sridhar, Kochi

1st March 2015

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