Place of use

• In industries

  • Power plants

    • Cooling towers

  • Process industries

  • Food & beverages

• In commercial establishments

• In agriculture

• Large farms

• Small holder farms

  • In developed nations

  • In developing nations

  • In underdeveloped nations

• In residences

  • Individual homes

  • Apartments

  • Urban homes

  • Rural homes

Avenues for water efficiency

• Use of IT & digital solutions

• Awareness creation

• Policies & incentives

  • Optimal pricing of water

• Recycling

  • Recycling of grey water in residential & commercial sectors

  • Recycling of sewage water in residential & commercial sectors

• Conservation

  • Water conservation through intelligent monitoring & analytics

  • Water saving plumbing design

  • Education for residential water management

Strengthening institutions, property rights and policies for sustainable water management

Water infrastructure components

• Pumping

• Piping

• Storage

Ground water

• Groundwater storage

• Groundwater recharge

• Groundwater monitoring for quality and quantity

Rainwater & stormwater

• Rainwater harvesting

• Sustainable stormwater management

Surface water

• Stream restoration for groundwater management

• Sustainable management of rivers, lakes and ponds

  • Pollution management in urban water bodies

Distribution

• Efficient water distribution infrastructure

• Decentralised water supply systems

• Centralised water supply systems

Urban water management

• Industrial water management in urban areas

• Data driven urban water management

• Urban wastewater treatment

Water for agriculture

• Micro irrigation, including drip irrigation

• Rainfed irrigation

• Deficit or supplementary irrigation

• Preventing evaporation

• Recycling irrigation water

• Water storage for irrigation

• Sustainable water use through precision farming methods

• Use of solar water pumps

• Training and capacity building for sustainable water use

• Policies for water use in agriculture