Industrial water audit
Student name: Mr Vishal Pratap Singh
Guide: Ms Ranjana Ray Chaudhuri
Year of completion: 2015
Host Organisation: The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI), New Delhi
Supervisor (Host Organisation): Mr Anshuman
Abstract: Decreasing per capita water availability in India, due to increasing population and living standard of people, water use pattern in every sector needs to be revised. Efficient water management is need to be implemented in present scenario by all the sectors. Industries being second largest consumption of water after agriculture sector, needs efficient water management due to increasing pressure on them because of increasing population, degradation and over exploitation of water resources. Water being primary raw material for industries, it is very necessary to develop an integrated industrial water management strategy for them. Water audit is one of the ways for effective water management. Water audit helps in optimizing water uses, zero discharge, and reduction in water losses hence resulting in increasing water use efficiency and helps in finding new solution for water conservation activities.
We have conducted water audit in two different sectors to understand their water use pattern and enhance water use efficiency. We focused our study on world’s largest rail network i.e. Indian railway and, second industry is tobacco industries. India is second largest manufacture of tobacco in world. By performing water audit in these two sectors, water consumption in their different process were calculated and tried to find out interventions that can be implemented to increase their water use efficiency and tried to find different opportunities to increase water utility function.
In order to increase or promote water use efficiency within the industries, they can be incentives or disincentives based on their water use pattern. And such policies should be made compulsory by makers.
Key words: water use efficiency, water audit, integrated industrial water management, tobacco & Indian railway, water losses.
