Framework for KIT Hydrological System

1. Framework for KIT Hydrological System

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2. Objective :
   1. Stop or Reduce present dependance on external water sources
   2. Aim for Zero-budget Closed loop recycling water system
   3. KIT's own usage model can become example of best Eco-Environmental 
   approach & methodology of best practices.
   4. Integrate with PBL and involve student/faculty teams as part of 
   learning program
   
   Methodology :
   1. Water Budget : Input - Output Modelling
   2. Build Total Resource Inventory with visual information, mapping of 
   resources on campus
   3. Mutli-level use of resource at various levels of degradation by 
   recycling and grading use quality requirements
   
   Hydrological System Model & Inventory :
   
   1. KIT Campus boundary
   2. Larger watershed feeding KIT Hydrology GIS, contour data
   3. Assess throughput from larger system passing through KIT
   Volume of Water; Duration, Period, Surface run-off, Sub-surface flows.
   4. Preciptitation over KIT Campus of 27 acres
   5. Area of paved surfaces with run-off flowing to drains
   6. Built Areas, natural drainage, runoff and Harvesting potential.
   7. Present Storage areas :
   1. Open Well : Volume, Duration, period, daily uptake and recharge 
   time, volume
   2. Storage tanks : Overhead, underground, volume, linked to which 
   buildings?
   8. Surface water storage areas, efforts, volume, trenches, bunds, sizes
   9. Geological profile of site
   Data from GSDA, consultants, vertical section profile, permeable. 
   impermeable zones, depths,
   Soil types, Ground cover, Water retention, Organic carbon
   10. Mapping of Plumbing of water supply main lines, branches to 
   buildings, individual buildings
   11. Mapping of drainage system, septic tanks
   12. Water Audit :
   Consumption types & volume :
   Toilet, Bath, Washing, Canteen, Drinking, Workshops, Cleaning, Garden
   Provision for fire fighting needs
   13. Daily, Monthly, Annual consumption
   14. Water brought from outside systems : Gram Panchayat, Tankers, 
   Volume,Costs
   15. Tree cover, location, species, density, shade index
   16. Solar insolation data, Evapo-transpiration losses of open water 
   ponds, storage
   17. Contour bunding calculations, volume, outcomes, costing
   
   Strategies, solutions
3. 
   1. Surface water harvesting through
   Keyline Method (Yeoman), Contour bunds, maximize run-off through 
   site, small decentralized
   storage ponds. Impervious lining, polymer fabric / cement fabric.
   2. Ground water prospects for bore well, perched water table
   3. Augment groundwater strata by bore blast fracturing of impervious 
   strata
   4. Improve groundwater recharge and retention by increasing soil carbon 
   and ground vegetative cover.
   5. Reduce evapo-transpiration losses through vegetative cover like 
   Azolla, Water Hyacinth and general shade through tree cover.
   6. Multiple level use of degraded water by recycling, separate plumbing, 
   filtering, and storage for secondary uses like toilet flushing, urinal 
   flush, garden use.
   7. Use water efficient plumbing and fixtures, leakage monitoring smart 
   systems.
   8. Building rainwater harvesting systems to be decentralised. Storage at 
   point of use.
   9. Increase green cover by creating natural ecological landscape in 
   niches, no maintenance human forests.
   10. Swales for natural irrigation for needs of landscaped areas of 
   campus.
4. Directives: Shri Dilip Joshi Sir
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