Reliance Energy

This presentation describes the work of Reliance Energy, in taking up water management initiatives with the local community around their plant in Dahanu. The work taken up includes constructing check dams, weirs and installing hand pumps for providing drinking water to the community. As a result of this, people in approximately 17 villages were benefitted as the availability of potable water improved and ground water levels increased resulting in higher incomes for the villagers. 

Dahanu Thermal Power Station (DTPS) supplies electricity to Mumbai. Dahanu is a predominantly tribal area located along the Arabian Sea coast with 185 villages and a total population of over 300,000. The area is rain fed, has lacked storage facilities and, being coastal, suffers from periodic salinity ingress problems.