Sustainable Water Management / Water Audit (Module 3)

Sustainable Water management is 4 module course on Water Audit. It includes Introduction to Water Audit, Water Harvesting, Water Conservation in Industries, Domestic Water Conservation, Best Monitoring & Measurements in Water practices & case studies, AWWA Water Audit Software Practices

Agriculture, Residential, Commercial and institutional facilities use large amounts of water for various purposes. Increasing water efficiency among these facilities can greatly reduce overall water use. This course is detailed presentation about conducting water audit for all types of water end use. It also has hand on practice on water audit software. Course is about water management and water balance. It is easy to understand and simple to learn course with diagrams and details. This course is useful to consultants who are working in the field of water and energy audit, architects and sustainability engineer, green building designers and civil engineers.

Module 3 of this course series covers following topics

1. What is Water Harvesting ?

2. Need of water harvesting

3. Methods

4. Rainwater Harvesting Techniques : Urban Area

•Recharge pit

•Recharge trench

•Tube well

•Recharge well

5. Rainwater Harvesting Techniques : Rural Area

•Percolation tank

•Check Dams / Cement Plugs / drain bunds

•Recharge shaft

•Dug well recharge

•Ground water dams or Sub- surface dykes

•Through Gully pugs and contour bunds

6. How Much Water Can Be Captured?

7. What is Domestic water conservation ?

8. Water Efficient Fixtures

9. Reuse & Recycle of water

For the total content, enroll for all the modules.