URBAN

DEMONSTRATIONS OF URBAN WATERSHED THROUGH PGWM APPROACH

Development of urbanization and the natural and artificial changes in land use and environments has been called urban watersheds.
It has been created with different hydrological and hydrologic behaviors that designed and managed the sustainable management and utilization of water resources in urban areas to rebuild the degradation of nature through urban development.
Ecological impairment and flooding caused by urbanization can be expressed numerically by calculating the risks throughout the watershed and along the main stems of the streams. The risks can be evaluated in terms of the present and/or future.
Participatory approach is necessary for the urban watershed management because people and multiple authorities are responcible for the urbanization.

OBJECTIVE OF URBAN WATERSHED MANAGEMENT

Main objective of a sustainable urban watershed management system are to provide safe drinking water, handle wastewater for the maintenance of public health, protect against floods, along with alleviating the effects of pollution.
ACT has aggressively started strong awareness activities on Hamirsar lake of Bhuj city. A citizen’s committee Hamirsar Sneh Samvardhan Samiti is emerging as lake conservation committee. The works which were undertaken for Hamirsar lake have been given broad vision with more activities, and to create wide scope, the committee has been expanded and given a new name Jalstrota Sheha SamVardhan Samiti and whatever work which will be undertaken by this committee would be done and carried out by Urban Watershed Management of ACT as decided by the committee members. Today this samiti work on drinking water problems of Bhuj city as well as groundwater recharge and groundwater management with publics participatory.