Abstract
More than a third of India’s population has no access to safe drinking water and the majority of the urban populace struggles to cope with both low and intermittent water supply conditions. By the beginning of 21st century, the country’s urban population will have expanded to 320 million, further exacerbating India’s water supply problem. Indian cities have no full service water supply utilities or water departments.
This thesis aims to study and analyze water supply system in the present scenario, and to arrive at innovative methods of water supply system and management at city level.
The capital city of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad City is taken for study purpose. This thesis begins with studying of existing water supply system and then attempt has been made to identify various problems and gaps in existing system. The study analyses the existing level of service and management and tries to fill the gaps by different alternative solution.
For effective Formulation, Evaluation, Selection, Monitoring and Management of water supply schemes, the existing conventional system needs to be replaced by the new technologies like Geographical Information System (GIS). Feasibility of this new system has been discussed in the present study.