Water Quality Management Framework with sectoral approach for India
Yukti Sharma
Research Fellow at MRC
Key Highlights
- Water quality as well as potable water quantity are major areas of concern around the globe
- It is necessary to investigate the technological interventions which will help keep the pace of sewage being generated and shall reduce the burden on the rivers
- This article aims to provide focus on policy interventions, technological interventions, and capacity building techniques to its stakeholders
- As responsible and rightful citizens, we must be aware of present and future conditions, and the prediction of future scenario in water quality management
- Water pollution is something which can be easily dealt with by almost zero compromise with other pillars of sustainable development
Water quality as well as potable water quantity are major areas of concern around the globe. Water quality management, water demand management and water as a resource management requires a wholistic approach of looking into the potential measures and steps that may be taken to curb water pollution and manage the resources efficiently. This may include the water demand management and minimising the use of water shall ultimately result in the minimised load on sewers. A lot of studies on Indian rivers by government as well as private organisations have been done to evaluate the deteriorating quality of river water and its impact on the population and uses of water. We must move on to solid interventions of mitigation related to water quality to have a broad and same platform for all the stakeholders to perform accordingly. This article provides a framework for water quality management from already developed models. It also considers requirements of the people at various hotspots.
The reason why poor water quality is studied in-depth is in order to identify probable solutions to the problems and apply them in the shape of a framework. It is also necessary to investigate the technological interventions which will help keep the pace of sewage being generated and shall reduce the burden on the rivers. The technology interventions may also include interventions related to outreach of data to different stakeholders. This will ultimately reduce the pollution load and hence improve the quality of rivers eventually. Based on the above, it has been decided to build a model for key stakeholders to have a convincing use of water resources based on effective management of the valuable resource on earth.
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Yukti Sharma
Research Fellow at MRC
Yukti Sharma is currently working at MRC as a Fellow for her project on Water Quality Management. She completed her Bachelors in Environmental Engineering from Delhi Technological University (DTU). A keen learner and an excellent observer, she like to be on the brighter side of things. She joined the MRC to expand her learning to a different higher, unmatchable levels, with the support and knowledge of the professional guides. She has also done research on “Evaluation of a Bio-signal ring in reduction of air pollution levels” during her bachelors. She has two papers published in different international journals, one of which is Crimson Publications (RDMS).