Chennai

Content Courtesy: Rotary Madras South

Talk by Sekhar Raghavan, Rain Centre, at the Rotary Club of Madras South weekly meeting on 26 April 2011 on rainwater harvesting and ecological sanitation - Part 1.

Organizers:

• Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD)
• Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM)
• Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)

Abstract:

The goal is to reconstruct past system behavior and diagnose the causes of a major water crisis.  In order to do this, we develop a hydrologic-engineering-economic model to address the complexity of urban water supply arising from consumers’ dependence on multiple interconnected sources of water. 

 In these, private tanker truck operators transport water extracted from peri-urban wells to urban consumers.  This study adopted a systems modeling approach to analyzing the informal tanker market in India.  The results indicate that the demand for tanker supply was caused by lack of groundwater availability in private wells as well as unreliable piped supply.

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Organiser: Society of Geoinformatics Engineers (SGE)

Venue: College of Engineering, Anna University, Guindy, Chennai

Description:

Organizer: Water Today

Venue: Chennai Trade Center, Nandambakkam, Chennai

Topics:

• Latest Technologies in Water Conservation, Harvesting Technologies & Water Audit
• Advances in Industrial Wastewater Treatment (Oil, Greaves Removal, Electroplating Removal, Insecticides and Pesticides)

Organizers: MSSRF and University of Nebraska

Venue: M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai

Topics:

• Setting the Agenda – Emerging Issues in Water
• Managing Water for Food Production
• Water Productivity in Agriculture