INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FOR KOVILPATTI – A FUTURISTIC APPROACH

Abstract

Today, sustainable utilisation of water is becoming more complicated due to dwindling water resources. Hence water is so important but now a day there is insufficiency and scarcity of water in some places. Hence to solve the problem we need to conserve water. Water conservation includes all the policies, strategies and activities to sustainably manage the natural resource of fresh water, to protect the hydrosphere and to meet the current and future human demand. This paper focuses on the study of the prevailing water scarcity and demands in the southern part of Tamil Nadu, India by analysis the existing water resources available , population , quality of water and the quantity of water . Finally this paper makes appropriate suggestions to establish sustainable water management without compromising the quality of water. Population, household size, growth and affluence all affect how much water is used. Factors such as climate change have increased pressures on natural water resources especially in manufacturing and agricultural irrigation. Water resource management is the activity of planning, developing, distributing and managing the optimum use of water resources. The field of water resources management will have to continue to adapt to the current and future issues facing the allocation of water. With the growing uncertainties of global climate change and the long term impacts of management actions, the decision-making will be even more difficult. As a result, IWRM would be a better solution with alternative management strategies are sought for in order to avoid setbacks in the allocation of water resources. In this work, we are trying to implement our IWRM technique in our region. Ideally, water resource management planning regard to all the competing demands for water and seeks to allocate water on an equitable basis to satisfy all uses and demands. Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) will create a pavement for solving the water scarcity by means of managing water resources. By collecting all water supply data in a particular region (kovilpatti) and we came to know that all 36 wards of kovilpatti town are safe from scarcity but it is known that the scarcity was faced by the kovilpatti panchayat people, Our solution for that people is by treating the water from natural tanks and thus IWRM is performed in kovilpatti region. The characteristic study is performed for these natural tanks.