Sustainable Water Asset Management System for Madurai City

Abstract

This paper deals with sustainable water resource management for Madurai city. Water isessential for sustaining life and the water plays a major component of all developmental activities. Effective strategies must consider not only managing the water conservation, also managing demand better. In accordance to the city aspects bringing sustainable system is avery long and futuristic process. It is to be regularly monitories and organized with largeteam members and thereby takes a sufficient action according to the people demand. The purpose of the water management system is to ensure the water storage from available resources and the study mainly focused to prepare a framework for effective water resource management. Due to increase in population the management system for present infrastructure is not able to meet their daily need. The paper discussed and analysed about the Madurai City and prepare a water management effectively. Madurai is a major city in thestate of Tamil Nadu in southern India. As per 2019 census, the city had a population of 15.6lakhs and to the year of 2051 it is expected to be several million. The demand of water for Madurai city increased now a days and the city is in absence of conserving the rainfall. The scope of this paper is to analyse and give some futuristic measures under a sustainable one. Considering the present water management source of Madurai city and water intake from Vaigai dam and present city population. For the evaluation of rainfall analysis, the presence of meteorological factors like rainfall, temperature, humidity, evaporation, sunshine hours tobe determined for the rainfall runoff. From the analysis maximum amount of rainfall are analysed to the exact month and thereby can compute to store the water during monsoon period and to improve the water management to the city. From the above data and analysis can help to meet and provides a sustainable water management to the Madurai City.