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A New Solution for City Water:Quality Drinking Water from the River Floodplains


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1 Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi 110 025, India
2 Department of Geology, University of Delhi, Delhi 110 007, India
3 Water and Power Consultancy Services (WAPCOS), Hyderabad 500 004, India
4 Natural Heritage First, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi 110 057, India
 

Cities world over are facing drinking water problem. The planners are often over emphasizing on sourcing surface water from far off places. This will involve exorbitant cost and many a times diversion of river flow beyond the permissible limit. Obviously such river flow diversions will have adverse ecological consequences. In this context, the article reinvents traditional knowledge with sound scientific rigour. It argues for ecologically sustainable local solutions for meeting drinking water need of cities from flood plain of rivers. A case of river Yamuna in Delhi has been discussed to highlight the potential of flood plain aquifer as a drinking water source.

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River Floodplains, Quality Drinking Water.
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Authors

Vikram Soni
Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi 110 025, India
Shashank Shekhar
Department of Geology, University of Delhi, Delhi 110 007, India
S. V. N. Rao
Water and Power Consultancy Services (WAPCOS), Hyderabad 500 004, India
Suman Kumar
Department of Geology, University of Delhi, Delhi 110 007, India
Diwan Singh
Natural Heritage First, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi 110 057, India

Abstract


Cities world over are facing drinking water problem. The planners are often over emphasizing on sourcing surface water from far off places. This will involve exorbitant cost and many a times diversion of river flow beyond the permissible limit. Obviously such river flow diversions will have adverse ecological consequences. In this context, the article reinvents traditional knowledge with sound scientific rigour. It argues for ecologically sustainable local solutions for meeting drinking water need of cities from flood plain of rivers. A case of river Yamuna in Delhi has been discussed to highlight the potential of flood plain aquifer as a drinking water source.

Keywords


River Floodplains, Quality Drinking Water.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv114%2Fi03%2F452-461