Planning and Designing of Rural Water Supply System
Keywords:
Water Supply System, Loop 4, Rural Area, Optimization of WDN, cost estimationAbstract
Water is the basic need of human being as well as entire live species in the environment. As we know water occupied a major part in the body of human being. Therefore water plays important role in maintaining the health of human being that can be ensured by providing sufficient, regular and safe water to every house in rural as well as in urban area by means of providing water supply system. The government of Gujarat is also ensuring to provide regular, enough and safe water to the rural & urban community. Water supply system includes water sources, water storage at the location; water distribution network and Underground sump along with pumping mainline with a suitable pump.
Sartanpar village is selected as study area. In village Sartanpar which is located in Jasdan taluka of Rajkot district. Sartanpar village population is 889 souls as per census 2011 and present population is 965 as in the year 2016. The project period is considered 30 years, therefore, the population is forecasted using the arithmetic Increase method. Existing water supply system is cluster water distribution system. Propose an alternate solution for water distribution system is based on elevated storage reservoir with staging height 12mt. Water distribution network is designed by loop 4 software.
