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Water Grid end water woes in Bangaru Telangana
Highlights
Telangana Water grid project is a mammoth project intended to provide a sustainable and permanent solution to the drinking water woes. Telangana Government would ensure tapped water supply to all households across the State in the next three years.
Telangana Drinking water Supply Project (TDWP):
Telangana Water grid project is a mammoth project intended to provide a sustainable and permanent solution to the drinking water woes. Telangana Government would ensure tapped water supply to all households across the State in the next three years.
It has taken a policy to supply treated surface water to all habitations in rural areas, urban local bodies and industrial areas are covering in nine districts of the state other than Hyderabad city and its surroundings within ORR.
TDWP will provide drinking water at the rate of 100 lpcd per person to the 319 lakh population in the state living in 25,139 rural habitations and 67 municipal bodies in nine districts, excluding Hyderabad. The total project cost is estimated to be about Rs. 42,000 crores, including bulk water supply (treatment and transmission system) managed by Telangana Drinking Water Supply Corporation (TDWSC), Intra¬ village water supply system managed by the Village Water and Sanitation Committee, sanitation and hygiene education, institution development and project management. All the ongoing drinking water projects will be integrated into the proposed TDW Project.
The State is enriched by perennial rivers like Krishna and Godavari flowing in the State and major reservoirs like Nagarjunasagar, Palair, Wyra, Dummugudem, Srisailam, SRSP, Singur., Nizamsagar , Kaddam and Komaram Bheem Projects have abundant storage of water to meet the drinking water needs of the people of the State. TDWP will use about 63 TMC of water drawn from these dependent and sustainable Sources.
TDWP to be implemented in four years, involves over 1.25 lakh KM length of a maze of pipelines, 18 intake wells, 63 water treatment plants, 17,407 storage tanks (for 7.5 lakh KL), 62 intermediate pumping stations. The total power requirement is 186 MW, as the project will use a gravity based distribution network as far as possible. Using smart technology, water usage will be monitored and wastage will be reduced.
The state is seeking funds from bilateral and multi-lateral agencies and financial institutions, in addition to utilizing Central Government and own resources, to fund this mega project divided into 26 segments.
In addition to domestic water supply, the Project also takes in to account the industrial demand to promote development of industry in the State .The bulk supply will be made by the Telangana Drinking water Supply Corporation while the distribution within village/municipal areas will be taken up by the respective PRIs/ ULBs. While the bulk supply pipelines and structures are proposed to be constructed by reputed agencies having vast experience in the field, the intra village or ULB distribution systems would be taken up by the local water committees involving women who are the best water managers.
1. The TDW project would be grounded in Nalgonda district, a fluoride-affected region. The work will simultaneously begin in Adilabad, Karimnagar, Khammam, Medakand Nizamabad to cover all four regions of the state. The chief minister announced that 10 percent of water from all existing and new irrigation projects will be allocated for the TDWP, of which 10 percent will be for industries. It will be executed by the newly set up Telangana Drinking Water Supply Corporation Limited.
2. By providing water connection within individual homes, Telangana will have addressed the basic human right to sufficient, safe, acceptable, physically accessible, and affordable water to all its inhabitants, and women will not have to go outside to fetch drinking water for the entire family.
3. It was decided by the government that the project shall be designed to meet the drinking water needs of the people for the next 30 years, and become a role model for other states. Rural Water Supply department officials have been instructed to ensure that pipelines of international standard are laid to each and every household. The government expects to avail of the new central law to be introduced to use forest land for development projects and exchange the required forest land for implementing the project.
4. The Telangana Drinking Water Project (TDWP) has been declared as a flagship program of the state. A state level Coordination Committee, headed by the Chief Secretary, has been set up to review progress of the project. District level Coordination Committees, headed by the District Collectors, will monitor progress in the progress of the project. District level Coordination Committees, headed by the District Collectors, will monitor progress in the districts.
5. TDWP will converge with other water supply, hygiene education and environmental sanitation programmes of the Government of India such as: Swatch Bharat Abhiyan, Swatch Bharat-Swatch Vidyalaya, and Haritha Haram. TDWP will be a smart project using automation, water budgeting, water recycling, water recharge, and promoting greenery in rural and urban areas using sullage water.
Need for Telangana Water Grid
The annual rainfall in the state of Telangana is uncertain in space and time. There are prolonged dry spells and floods. Telangana has faced deficit rainfall for five years in the last decade. Unsustainable use of available water in the form of rainfall, surface water, groundwater, and soil moisture led to water crisis. The state is served by two major river basins – the Krishna and the Godavari. However, rural drinking water has been heavily dependent on groundwater which has become and unreliable source.
The proposed Telangana Drinking Water Project using stand alone water networks (segments) is to supply water needs of rural, urban, institutional, commercial and industrial needs excluding the GHMC and its surrounding habitations within the Outer Ring Road (ORR) of Hyderabad. There are several major challenges to be faced in providing assured water supply to every household in each habitation in the state. The major challenges to be addressed are:
Ground water depletion: One of the major problems in this sector is depletion of ground water mainly due to over exploitation and short fall in rainfall.
Ground Water Quality: In parts of Telangana ground water contains high concentration of fluoride and iron deposits in the subsurface strata, with depletion of ground water, the concentration of fluoride, iron and salinity is increasing in the ground water outside range of acceptable standard limits for drinking water which leads to provide surface treated water for human consumption. Total 8572 quality affected habitations are identified in 9 districts with excess fluoride (4506 Habitations), salinity (1590 Habs), TDS (19 Habs.), Nitrates (1881 Habs.) and Iron (576 Habs). However, some of these quality affected habitations are covered in the existing schemes/ongoing schemes with limited supply of quality water.
Groundwater pollution: Pollution is also a critical problem both from natural resources, Industrial pollutions, Agriculture pesticides, nitrates and improper disposal of solid and liquid waste etc.
Sustainability: In water supply sector sustainability of drinking water sources and systems is a major challenge in view of demand for irrigation and adverse seasonal conditions.
Increasing demand: Due to change in life styles & urbanization, most of the villagers are demanding household connections and increased level of water supply at their doorstep. Change in perception of people for better living standards is also leading to increased demand.
Rural Areas and Urban Areas: Presently separate network from even from the same water source is planned for rural areas and urban areas due to which the cost of the project is increasing as the urban areas, i.e., a total of 67, which are scattered over the State in between rural habitations.
Institutional set up for Implementation and Supervision
A Telangana Drinking Water Supply Corporation has been set up for the implementation, supervision and future O&M of the Telangana Water Supply Project. The RWS&S Department will recruit the required staff for the effective implementation of the project and future O&M. A dedicated expert team of Consultants who has similar exposure to designing, construction and supervision of such schemes are being engaged.
Cost Recovery and Tariff
Cost recovery and financial self-reliance is also required for the long term sustainability of the system. Thus community shall not be dependent financially or technically on the regional or central government in the long term. Tariffs for the consumption of water beyond a certain quantity required for drinking, cooking, and washing should be equal to the cost of providing additional supplies.
A slab segregated consumption rate model (0-100 lpcd, 100-125 lpcd, 125 -150 LPCD, above 150 LPCD) has to be planned. Where the consumption up to 100 LPCD shall be nominal for Low Income Group (LIG) and economically Weaker Section(EWS) communities, and tariff has to be worked out for others. For higher consumption higher tariffs will be the norm. Separate tariffs will be planned for commercial and industrial customers.
Designed Guidelines
The proposed Telangana Drinking Water Supply Project will be designed keeping in view of the Central Public Health and Environmental Engineering Organization (CPHEEO) Manual on Water Supply and as per the Guidelines and policies agreed by the state Government.
Operation and maintenance of system
The Corporation will operate and maintain the bulk water supply grid. The PRIs will operate and maintain the water supply within the habitations. The end users will contribute to the maintenance cost through tariffs set by the PRIs.
Coordination
At the state level, the Water Supply and Sanitation Organization (WSSO) under the State Water and Sanitation Mission (SWSM) will be the nodal agency to coordinate all the sector programmes for convergence.
A well-qualified multi-disciplinary project management unit will be established within the Telangana Drinking Water Supply Corporation to manage the various project management tasks.In addition to the engineering expertise that would be available within the Corporation, the other expertise required for the PMU team will include: Project management, Procurement; MIS and GMIS; Monitoring, learning and evaluation; Environmental and social safeguards; Water quality studies; Research, documentation and dissemination; Training and Capacity building; Health and hygiene education. Effective human resource management will be important for the Corporation in the long term to become a model water management organization.
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