Review on the status of water management practices in Pune city

Our environment is being subjected to drastic changes since past few years. The growing intensity of people in several urban clusters and their ever-increasing demand of basic resources like quality of food, air, water and hygiene surroundings are challenging and increasing day by day. In urban cities like Pune, these requirements of human are not yet fully organized and managed. It can be said that the city is in a zone of earnest mismanagement of natural resources in many forms especially the universal solvent going to become an explicit solvent in the future years to come. This is mainly due to Lifestyle change of users and increasing per-capita demand are projecting future years of water scarcity. Rigorous expansion in the urban cities are ravaging the existing local sources of water and polluting the water table. In addition to this, industrialization is integrating supplemental damage to water eco system. At the present rate of uncontrolled growth rate, expansions and behaviour of society, the water resources are in peril of depletion. In order to overcome such situations, the cognizance in people about rainwater harvesting system and storm water management system should be made realized. Because it is expressed that even in one tier cities like Pune, the cost-effective system such as both rainwater harvesting and storm water management is not sympathizing and is shooting problem in every monsoon season such as flooding and inundation and in summer the water scarcity also prevailing in many locations. To ascertain its significance a questionnaire was floated with data in support of Rainwater harvesting importance, need and benefits among the local residence of Pune city. The bottom-line of the output is that more than 70% people residing in the city area are not aware of the rainwater harvesting system and its significance. Estimation was done from the data collected of rainwater that could be harvested for the year from the study area location. This study also highlights the need for adopting the various smart technologies in managing the water scarcity, either the rainwater or the supplied potable water for efficient and controlled water management strategies.