Total Water Management

"Water is precious. Every drop counts."

Fresh water is a limited and scarce resource that's often taken for granted. Consider this, according to an MMRDA report, Mumbai's present water demand, 3026 MLD (Million Litres Daily) is expected to rise to 7950 MLD by 2011, today the water supply being only 2500 MLD.

Ever imagined a time in the future when there won't be water for even drinking, leave alone wasting? That time is nearer than you think. And more than anything else, our mindless wastage of water is the prime reason. Today we are on the brink of water scarcity.

We, at Asian Paints, understand this and we endeavour to create awareness about this alarming issue.

So, save water today. Water will save you tomorrow.

We propagate some methods to help you conserve water

Asian Paints has built a Total Water Management (TWM) Centre, at its Bhandup manufacturing facility, which is the first of its kind in the entire country.

The TWM centre showcases live working models on water conservation and rainwater harvesting.

Asian Paints provides expertise to citizens free of charge to implement rainwater harvesting and total water management solutions.

The water management schemes could be designed in phases, so investments are not significant. Also a payback period can be determined for investments.

So if you are interested in implementing rain-water harvesting and total water management solutions in your society, institution or your organisation, do let us know. We would be glad to provide you all expertise at no cost. You can also visit the TWM centre to understand the various concepts of total water management.

All you have to do is register at TWM or email your request to jal@asianpaints.com

Success stories

For piloting the concept of total water management, Asian Paints chose one of the housing societies, a high rise building viz., Glen Croft Co-operative Housing Society at Hiranandani Gardens, Powai. Sh. Vikram Jaisinghani, Chairman and Sh. Farhan Thakur Secretary, Glen Croft Co-operative Housing Society welcomed the suggestion and accepted to collaborate with Asian paints to implement a pilot scheme in Glen Croft.

An innovative and highly cost effective rainwater harvesting scheme was developed taking into consideration the existing infrastructure of the building. A number of options were worked upon and presentation was made by Sh. Amit Doshi (Factory Manager) and Dr Rajan Sharma (Executive - Environment) of Asian Paints to the society. The scheme was finalised and has been successfully implemented at Glen Croft at Hiranandani Gardens, Powai. The project was conceived by Asian Paints, proposed and accepted by Glen Croft Co-operative Housing Society and executed by M/s Azad Barish.

In this scheme, the dome structure and terrace of the building have been used as catchment areas. The dome is the highest part of the high rise building (27 floors) and stands above the over head water supply tanks. This dome structure has been used to an advantage by making arrangement to collect rain water from the dome and connecting it directly to the overhead tanks (Flush and Domestic Water Tanks). Since this scheme delivers water directly from dome to the over head water supply tanks, there is absolutely no requirement to pump water. This is the innovative part of scheme and gives a tremendous added benefit of saving electrical power along with water. The cost benefit analysis for saving water and electrical power makes sure that the investment return rate is just one monsoon season and free water is available from rains for rest of the life.

In addition, rest of the terrace is used to collect rainwater and is taken through the existing down spouts to the underground flush water tank. The existing down spouts which were earlier just left on the ground to join the storm water drains are now extended using PVC water lines to under ground flush water tank.

The scheme is already in place and the Glen Croft Housing Society has benefited from the scheme in this monsoon and not only has it reduced fresh water intake from BMC but it has also eliminated the tanker water requirement during monsoon. This will reduce major health hazards to the society members from the contaminated tank water during monsoons.

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