Potential of Sustainable Water Resource Management for the International Zone of Auroville

Boulicot, Gilles Potential of Sustainable Water Resource Management for the International Zone of Auroville. Technical Report. Auroville Water Harvest.

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Abstract

The International Zone Group of Auroville together with Auroville International Germany has requested Auroville Water Service - Harvest to develop a concept of water resource management for the zone. The result of our investigations was delivered in April 2004 as a document called ”A Model of Water Resource Management for the International Zone of Auroville“. The general conclusions brought the attention on three major points: (1) The extraction capacity (wells) is actually enough to cover the need of the area for the coming years. (2) Kottakarai village is the main problematic area because of the poor existing sanitation and the close connection with surface water bodies and groundwater. (3) The available data indicate a good potential for sub-surface flow harvesting, which then advocate for a full scale storm water management and integrated landscaping, thus allowing for a reduced stress on the deeper aquifers, already over exploited. Further investigations are anyhow needed to consolidate the model. Accordingly, Harvest started to work on specific project proposal to target these most urgent questions. A project proposal concerning further investigations is the concern of the present document.

Item Type:	Monograph (Technical Report)
Subjects:	Water > Water (General) Water > Sourcing (rainwater, stormwater, surface water, groundwater, treated water, desalinated water) Water > Management Water > Bioregion
Depositing User:	Aditi Rosegger
Date Deposited:	08 Apr 2021 08:12
Last Modified:	08 Apr 2021 08:12
URI:	http://aurorepo.in/id/eprint/171

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