Invitation for Collaboration : Impact of Lockdown and Urbanization on Water Filter Production

The "Impact of Lockdown and Urbanization on Water Filter Production" can be one of the most important topic of research  related to water reuse in the coming decade. According to Falkenmark's Water Stress Indicator,a region is said to be water scarce if per capita water availability is less than 1700 cubic m.Again availability of water will imply not only the quantity but also the quality of water available.The water must be qualitatively suitable for consumption.Otherwise, it will not be added to water resources potential of a region.    

In the last few years due to large scale and rapid urbanization, there is an immense stress on the "available water".

Not only urbanization, recent lock-down measures are also influencing the quality of water to be changing. Although impact of urbanization will be detrimental to the environment,lock-down affects can act as beneficial to the environment.

In case of lock down citizens can not go out and pollute different bodies of surface water. But amount of water available for consumption is constant.Thus it will be interesting to see the variation in quality of water in between pre and post lock-down scenario.

Based on the surface water or ground water or waste water quality decisions may be adopted for the utilization of supplied water by recycling or reused resources of water.

Hence,the interrelationship between rate of urbanization, lock-down and quality of the surface-water will be an interesting aspect to determine.The potential of urban population in degrading the quality of water in one hand and the beneficial effect from Lock down due to CORONA is also another potential area of research which can enlighten us to determine the amount of water we have and can reclaim for reuse. The results of the study can be utilized not only for decision making by the city managers but also for the common man who want to procure a filter and based on the results he/she may take their decisions. 

If you are interested to do research in this field kindly collaborate with me by replying to this blog post.

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Edit 1 : Thanks mithan for identifying the mistake.I have corrected the threshold value.

How to select your own water filter ?

How to remove pollutants from rural water ? 

A filter can be used to treat urban as well as rural water. The most common contaminants of rural surface water are impurities released from the fertilizers and pesticides used for unhindered growth of crops and plants . To know how to select a filter which can remove contaminants specific to rural water, a presentation was prepared which can be accessed from here.

How to remove pollutants from urban water ? 

If you use a filter to produce drinking water, it is better to evaluate the source of water and available types of filters before its application.This power point will show the process of selection of a filter configuration for urban water sources....Click here.

How to select the best water filter for your daily use ?

Water filter is solely responsible for maintaining the health of its consumer.There are various types of filters which is developed in combination of different types of purification materials.The type and function of the materials will decide the efficacy and cost of the arrangement.The desired type of efficacy can only be achieved if filter materials are optimally arranged.This presentation shows you how ?

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New Research Idea : Selection of Conceptual Hydrologic Models for Estimating Runoff from Arid Watersheds

Abstract : 

The selection of ideal conceptual hydrologic model for prediction of surface runoff from any type of watershed is useful for the estimation of future hydrologic conditions of the basin.The predicted runoff is also important for design of hydraulic structure,preparation of watershed management plans ,disaster management etc. related activities.The future runoff will give an idea of future uncertainties that may trouble the watershed and its inhabitants.The hydrologic models which follows the basic physical laws of water balance to estimate the desired output cannot exactly estimate the runoff.There will be some differences with the actual situation and the predicted one.The deviations between the two is allowable but to a certain extent.There are many factors for this deviation.Some models are suitable for some specific types of watersheds.The availability of required dataset is also another important issue.The equalizing constants that are used to linearize interrelationships are also a factor for the error produced by the hydrologic model.That is why  selection of a suitable hydrologic model which can estimate at a desired accuracy under the restrictions imposed by the study watershed  and dataset availability is important for successful execution of projects involving runoff predictions.The present study tries to select a suitable hydrologic model based on the related factors and decision making algorithms for predicting surface runoff from an arid watershed.The decision making algorithms are popular for their impartial and scientific decision making based on historical,social and expert inputs.The advancements of such algorithms can be utilized to select an ideal hydrologic model which can minimize the error between the predicted and actual output.

Tools Utilized : AHP and Fuzzy,various hydrologic models

Keywords : hydrologic models,decision making algorithms,arid watershed.