Water in Gujarat: Issues, Projects

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Water in Gujarat Issues, Projects Resources
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Facts on Gujarat Water

• Water forms one of the basic building blocks of
  the economy, particularly in rural areas
• 70 of Water in Gujarat is not potable
• Areas like Kutch get only about 200/300 mm of
  rainfall annually
• Approximately 14,000 villages out of 18,500
  villages suffer from severe water scarcity every
  year
• The drop in the height of the ground water table
  is around 3 to 5 meters every year
• The distribution of water for domestic usage is
  very unfair

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Main Issues for Water in Gujarat

• Pollution due to Industrialization
• Shortage in drought prone areas
• Shortage in areas of high rainfall due to
  undulating landscape and/or excessive
  de-forestation
• Unavailability of sufficient drinking water

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Water Projects NGOs in Gujarat
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Projects NGOs - PSS

• Paryavaran Suraksha Samiti (PSS)
• Creating awareness about water quality
• Scientific studies on industrial water
  pollution
• Locating and reporting active and passive
  hazardous waste sites
• Water clean up demands to polluting companies

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An e.g. of PSS Survey Findings
Effluent treated by the VAPI Plant being
dumped into the Daman-Ganga river through the
pipes
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Projects NGOs - Anandi

• Anandi
• Implementation of roof rain-water harvesting
  structures
• Deepening and recharging wells
• AID Chapters involved
• Bay Area

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Anandi Rain water harvesting
Rain water collected from the roof of the
house flows into a filtration tank and then into
the main tank which has a 10,000 litre capacity
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Projects NGOs - BSFC

• Bombay Sarvodhaya Friendship Center (Saathis
  Swati Michael)
• Bund building and watershed program via Food for
  Work program
• AID Chapters involved
• Bay Area, Clemson, Dallas, Duke, Raleigh
  Pittsburgh

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BSFC Bund building
This big gully plug was built by a farmer on a
nalla passing through his field. This bund
survived one of the heaviest rains last year
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Projects NGOs - Utthan

• Utthan
• Drinking water resource development through well
  recharging, check dams and rain water harvesting
  structures
• Empowering women with their involvement in the
  Pani Samitis Water committees
• AID Chapters involved
• Austin

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Utthan Well Recharging
The structure in front collects rainwater
that drains down slopes, passes the water
through a filtration system and feeds it into
the well
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Gujarat Cell objectives for Water
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Gujarat Cell objectives for Water

• Build knowledge base of water specific issues in
  Gujarat through research and correspondence with
  NGOs
• Documentation and awareness building of water
  issues and projects in the For Gujarat cyber
  portal
• Cross-participation in Water Issue cell for
  new project/campaign goals
• Translation of knowledge, resource base and NGO
  interactions into tangible water projects for AID
  Chapters to take up