Research Paper on Status-Stress of water management for Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Cooridor Project

Status-Stress of water management for DMIC project

*Prof. Sayli Wable
Assistant Professor, MGM Institute of Management, Aurangabad
Email id:- sayali.wable@mgmiom.org
Contact: - 8275239480

Abstract
This paper addresses recent and future status of water resources that have substantial practical
implications for Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) project particularly for Shendra-Bidkin Area.
Procuring additional fresh water supplies is highly problematical. As a result attention has naturally
turned to “demand management” in the hopes that increased efficiency of water use will produce
sufficient savings to meet future water requirements. The major source for DMIC is the available water
through Godavari River. So Moving beyond its traditional role of being using the ground water, the
government, through the DMIC, seeks to create trunk infrastructure and offer an enabling water reservoir
for this project, which will overcome the lacunas of the environmental factors like water level due to rain.
This Document is a study regarding the storage capacity of Water of River, its last 5 year distribution
to 3 factors
 Irrigation
 Drinking
 Industry
According to which what percentage of water is given to Maharashtra Industry Development
Corporation. So, accordingly how much present and future demand and supply of Delhi Mumbai
Industrial Corridor (DMIC) project is analyzed in this paper. As overall DMIC project has Water
Demand of 950 MLD (Mega Litter per Day), whose further bifurcation is as follows
Phase I – 260 MLD
Phase II – 450 MLD
Phase III – 240 MLD
The Shendra- Bidkin area is regarded in Phase I. This demand of water will be fulfilled through available
river, reservoir and wells.

DMIC MGM IOM©Prof. Sayli Wable

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Keywords: - Water management, Strategies, Water demand, Water supply, Storage capacity, Sources of
water, Industrial use, Domestic use, Evaporation

Introduction
What is DMIC
Government of India has announced the establishing the Dedicated Freight Corridor between
Delhi and Mumbai, covering an overall length of 1483km and passing thru the States of U.P, NCR of
Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra, with end terminals at Dadri in the National Capital
Region of Delhi and Jawaharlal Nehru Port near Mumbai. This Dedicated Freight Corridor offers highspeed connectivity for High Axle Load Wagons (25 Tone) of Double Stacked Container Trains supported
by high power locomotives. The Delhi Mumbai leg of the Golden Quadrilateral National Highway also
runs almost parallel to the Freight Corridor.

Vision of DMIC
To create strong economic base with globally competitive environment
and state-of-the-art infrastructure to activate local commerce,
enhance foreign investments and attain
sustainable development.

Project Goals
Developmental planning for DMIC aims to achieve certain
end results with implementation that would ensure realization
of envisaged vision for the project and lead to economic
development. Accordingly the project goals for DMIC are:
Double employment potential in 7 years
Triple industrial output in 9 years
Quadruple exports from the region in 8-9 years
DMIC states contribute 43% of India’s GDP, 50% of
agricultural produce of principal crops in the country and
60% of total exports. Approximately 60% of total FDI into the country, between April 2000 and April
2012, has been in these states. Further, they constitute 40% of the country’s factories and workforce.


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Leveraging DMIC and Secondary Growth Corridors
The Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) is a mega infrastructure project, which is expected
to cover an overall length of 1,483 km between Delhi and Mumbai. About 17% of its project influence
area is in Maharashtra, covering approximately 20% area & 26% population of the state. A band of 150
km on either side of the freight corridor has been identified as the influence region for industrial
development. The major districts covered under the corridor will be Mumbai Suburban, Mumbai, Than,
Nasik, Pune, Aurangabad, Ahmednagar, Dhule, Nandurbar and Raigad.
Shendra-Bidkin DMIC Mega Industrial Park is to come up on 8400 hectares of land i.e. 20756
acres. Maharashtra gets Rs 18,500 crore boost to regain industrial glory. The Dighi port and Shendra
(Aurangabad) will emerge as industrial townships complete with world-class infrastructure in
Maharashtra. Shendra Industrial Park has the estimates to get completed till 2019.
The development in Shendra (Aurangabad) will require Rs 2,790 crore for industrial
Development.
The Shendra Township will cover 8,340 hectares. Roads, drinking water, power, schools, hospitals,
market centers, gardens, sewerage, and storm water drainage will be built. The water need is to be fulfilled
of 8 million people.
8 million people

Industrial

Residential

Commercial

50%

30%

20%

Objectives
1. To study overall Present and Future gap in demand and supply of water
2. To study the water resource management required for Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC)
project with reference to Shendra-Bidkin Area
3. To study the strategy of water supply by MIDC
4. To study last 5 years demand and supply of water


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Available Water sources and its management
For the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) project, the available water resources are
i.
ii.
iii.
iv.
v.
vi.

Fresh ground water
Saline ground water
Surplus flood water during rain
Recycled water from external sources
Recycle water from within development
Rain water harvesting

From above mentioned available sources the water for the DMIC project from Bidkin to
Karmad, the major source is Godavari dam and the ground water sources (wells and saline water). There
are in all 32 wells with Aurangabad Municipal Corporation. From which more than half wells are dried
and rest have inadequate water storage. Many of these wells are used for drinking and irrigation purpose.

Principles considered for IWRM Planning Process

Decision model analysis to develop a Dynamic Water Operating Module
Develop models for evaluating Water Supply Options for Technical and Economic Feasibility.
Model elements should include:
• Demands from various sources
o Potable

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o Non-Potable
• Supply from all possible sources (Godavari River and associated canals, Groundwater, Reuse,
Desalinization, Rain water harvesting)
o Allow source prioritization
• Capital and Operating Costs for Selected Treatment Approach (AMC has allocated Rs. 34 Crore for
Water treatment )
• Capital Improvement Program (CIP) Module
• Scenario Manager / Operating model to provide the water through year with “optimized” impact on cost,
society and environment.

ASR Installation

Common ASR
Applications
• Capture temporal
sources for increased
reliability / improved
water quality
• Eliminate evaporative
losses in reservoirs
• Avoid loss of riverside
habitat associated with
surface reservoirs
• Increase water treatment
works / conveyance
system / operational
efficiency


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Seasonal Storage

Seasonal storage will help to store water in rainy season and recover when water scarcity is
observed. The demand will be fulfilled on monthly and annual basis.
The demand of water with Shendra-Bidkin DMIC is
Monthly Demand = 750 mm3
Annual Demand = 9000 mm3

Research Methodology
Data Collection
This is an exploratory study which is based on Primary data and Secondary data.
Primary Data
Interview method was conducted with the following people
1.
2.
3.
4.

Irrigation Department, Paithan
MIDC, Aurangabad
C.A.D.A., Aurangabad
WALMI, Aurangabad

Secondary Data
The sources of Secondary Data are websites, newspaper, journal and books.


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Hypothesis
Research Hypothesis is applied to this study as
H0: There is significant difference between demand and supply of water

Analysis of Demand and Supply of Water
Water Demand
Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor has demanded 25mm3 of water daily to MIDC. These are their
estimates of water on daily basis which they have planned to complete till 2019. As on now, the process of
land acquisition is in progress, after which they will start their actual construction.
Future water Demand of DMIC (Shendra-Bidkin Area) = 25mm3 (After 2 years till 2019)
Demand of Water in the year 2042 = 2% of total Storage of Jayakwadi (58.18 mm3 from 2909 mm3)

Supply of Water
Water Supply for Aurangabad District
With reference to above level at River, the water supply is categorized in 3 parts as
1. Drinking water
2. Industrial use
3. Irrigation
So, the water for irrigation is only given when the overall percentage of water supply is above
33%. As seen in the report, for the year 2011-12 irrigation water was no supplied due to water level
9.33%. Similar is the case for the 2013 as the available water level is 25%(as mentioned on the date 26 th
September,2013). In such conditions the water is only supplied for the drinking and industrial use. The
Irrigation department supplies the fixed quantity of water as mentioned below
Population-36.95 lakhs as per 2011 census
Current expenditure of AMC for lifting the water from Jayakwadi reservoir is Rs. 34 Cr.


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Water Supply by Irrigation Department
80 %
80
60
40

20 %

Water Supply

20
0

MIDC

Drinking

Source: Irrigation Department, Paithan

Aurangabad water supply and industrial use is fixed by the Irrigation which is 100mm3 water, so
in this supply, MIDC distributes water to industries at Waluj and Other areas.

Some of the Surface Water Resources available for Aurangabad District are










Sukhna River Notified Naregaon to Sukhna dam
Sukhna Dam Small Irrigation dam Chitepimpalgaon
Salim Ali Lake Small Percolation tank Aurangabad at Delhi gate.
Harsul Dam Small Percolation tank Aurangabad at Harsul
Jaikwadi Dam Large irrigation dam Aurangabad District
Tembhapuri Dam Medium irrigation dam Limbejalgaon, Turkabad
Tisgaon Lake Small Percolation tank Tisgaon
Ranjangaon Lake Small Percolation tank Ranjangaon
Kham River (Nonnotified) Non – notified Harsul to Bramhagavhan
 Shivna River (Nonnotified) Non – notified Dahegaon & Lasur station


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Results and Discussion
Water Levels at Jayakwadi for last 5 years
100%
80%
60%
40%

Actual level

58.75 %

100 %

20%

Water Deficient
62.8 %

24.35 %
9.33 %

26 %

0%
2007-08

2008-09

2009-10

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

Maximum capacity of the river is 2,909 mm3 of water, as the graph shows in 2008 the water level
was 100% which is only depended on rain water (fresh water). In which 30% of 2909mm3(872.7mm3) is a
dead stock, which means it is not fresh water from rain at that year. In the year 2012, as the water level
was 9.33% (i.e. 271.4mm3), it resulted in water scarcity, so there was not supply of water for such
projects. At this situation, 22.89mm3 water was given to MIDC. Due to which the dead stock of the river
was used which was approximately 150-200 mm3. But as per sources till 26th September, 2013 the water
in the river was 25%, so this year, the dead stock will not be required for using for drinking and industrial
purpose.
According to the Irrigation Department, dated on 25th September, 2013, out of 2909mm3
water storage capacity, currently Jayakwadi is having 1323.492 mm 3 of storage, from which 585.386 mm3
is usable water.

Evaporation
As seen previously, the water level of Godavari is reduced due to Evaporation. The MIDC
have suggested supplying water to DMIC project from Jayakwadi as there is reduced water in summer
season, so maximum water can be supplied in rainy season. For fulfilling the demand supply gap,
Nandurmadhmeshwar canal supplied 22.458 mm3 of water, out of which 6.383 mm3 actually reached. Due
to which 2% increase in the current water level was observed. Last year 10 mm3 of water was supplied,
out of which 6.11 mm3 was actually received. This situation enforced to use 143 mm3 of dead stock,
which resulted decrease of 1.10 mm3 of water in dead stock. In July 2013, there was a hope of increasing
water level due to heavy rainfall, but it went in vain.


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Loss of water due to Evaporation

295 mm3

3
280 mm3 286 mm

300
250
200
150
100
50
0

213

242 mm3

mm3

Evaporation

2007-08

2008-09

2009-10

2010-11

2011-12

The above graph shows how much water is evaporated from the total storage of water in last 5
years. When the water level was 9.33% of total storage capacity, the evaporation was 242mm 3. This
resulted in water scarcity and Aurangabad district had to bear water cutoff for industries and the related
projects. In such circumstances, State Government declared the available water for only drinking use for
Aurangabad district. As estimated by Irrigation Department, the average evaporation every year is
300mm3.

Strategy of Supplying Water by MIDC
MIDC have build up a separate Water Treatment Plant for Industries and DMIC. As
Jayakwadi is major water source, it supplies daily 50 to 52 mm3 water to MIDC, which first undergoes
through Water Treatment Plant located at Bramhagavan, Bidkin. After filtering, the water is distributed in
following manner.

Daily Water Supply of MIDC
5 mm3

Waluj MIDC &
Residential

5 mm3

Shendra

10 mm3

32

mm3
Chikalthana
Jalna MIDC

Source: MIDC, Aurangabad

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As seen before, the daily demand by MIDC is 100mm3 but it gets water supply of 52mm3.

Dependency and Demand of Water
Factors

Demand of Water

Drinking Water
Terminal Power Plant
Irrigation
Evaporation
Usable water other than dead stock
Gap between future Demand and Supply of usable water

140.75mm3
102.00mm3
288mm3
382.80mm3
421.82mm3
491.73mm3

Water coming from upper dam to Jayakwadi (considering
756.50mm3
35% loss)
(These estimates are from 16th September, 2013 to 31st July, 2014)

Water and sewerage generated and Demand
Water & Sewerage Generation & demand (Mld)

Year
2022
94

2032
211

2042
335

Sewage generated

69

156

252

Water demand
met by recycled water
Fresh Water
Demand
Source: - www.walmi.com

64

146

231

30

65

104

Total Water
Demand

Challenges in DMIC Region needs “out of box” solutions
• Over exploited ground water in the region- deep GWT and saline ground water.
• Salt disposal challenges
• Average rainfall is not more than 400 / 500 mm
• Impact of climate variability
• Competitive water needs / demand in the region and changing priority.


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SWOT Analysis

Strength
-

Adequate rainfall, water level
increased compared to last year
Resources & part of Godavari
river

Opportunities
-

Development of water retaining
structures & storage capacities
Promotion of recycling of water
AMC funding for water resource


Weakness
- Demand-supply mismatch
- Changes in climatic
conditions

Threats
-Adoptability of

recycling water
- Excess use of will lead to
water logging and
reduction in
productivity of land

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Suggestions for water resource management in DMIC
1. Fulfilling the Demand
This water requirement can not be fulfilled only by the Jayakwadi dam; it will
require coordination with other districts. As the dams’ located nearby are totally filled as on date
27th September, 2013. The Irrigation Department and MIDC should take appropriate decisions
based on future estimates.
2. Socio—Political Scenario
Proper coordination cannot be established due to Political environment, the political
leaders of other districts refuse to supply water for Marathwada. According to Irrigation
Department, dated on 27th September, 2013, only 26% of water is stored as compared to other
dams which are stored 100% due to rainfall.
Some of them are as follows
Dams
Storage
Percentage filled till
27/09/2013
Gangapur
5565
100%
Kashyapi
1726
100%
Gautamigodavari
1831
100%
Palkhed
750
100%
Waghad
2503
100%
Punegaon
609
100%
Darna
7149
100%
Bhavli
1434
100%
Valdevi
1133
100%
Alandi
970
100%
Bhojapur
358
100%
Chankapur
2708
100%
Haranbari
1166
100%
Kelzar
572
100%
As the data shows, the availability of water in other districts, but the Shendra-Bidkin have
to face the water scarcity, that to fulfilling the demand of 25mm3 for overall development
including the Industrial Parks.
3. Solid waste should be dumped properly.
Total quantity of 13.42 MLD effluents is produced by MIDC industries resulting in water
pollution. Proper measures should be taken by MIDC and DMIC to get control on these effluents. The
major source of carcinogens, probable carcinogens and other toxins are bulk drugs and electroplating
industries. Of the 107 MLD of domestic waste generated by Aurangabad Municipal Corporation, only 6.5
MLD of sewage is treated and the remainder is disposed without treatment into adjacent water bodies.
Agricultural runoff, leach ate from MSW dump, illegal dump site etc. should be controlled. Pesticides and

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fertilizers from 4 MIDCs cause hazardous pollution. The Aurangabad Municipal Corporation should have
a scientific, secured solid waste dump.
4. Ground water contamination
For the ground water quality in MIDC Waluj as per the study conducted by NEERI says there are
32 wells. Actions should be taken by MIDC, Industries, and Irrigation Department to preserve these wells.
5. Proper control on scarcity of water
When water scarcity is analyzed from future estimates, adequate amount of water should be
supplied with proper coordination to avoid the evaporation faced in other seasons.
6. Fulfilling the water Demand of DMIC
The estimated per day demand of 25 mm3 of water should plan prior, so that even in water
scarcity, there will be adequate supply of water by MIDC. Accordingly plan should be made to fulfill this
daily demand.
7. Public awareness and training for water saving
Creating public Awareness for reducing wastage of water & conducting effective training for water
saving.
8. Output Expectation of DMIC
When provided adequate amount of water, overall DMIC project in Maharashtra is expecting
46,409,571 INR MN Output in 2040.

Waste of water from Nahar E Palshi
Source: - Sakal Newspaper (dated on 3rd October, 2013)


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9. Awareness of water saving by Aurangabad Municipal Corporation
Lakhs of liter of water is wasted of Nahar E Palshi due to avoidance of AMC. Lack of
proper Water Management is leading to water scarcity which is suffered by Population and also by
projects such as DMIC. Proper water harvesting is necessary for fresh water. Due to which people
are encroaching and using the water for construction. If AMC tries to use this water properly, the
issue of drinking water can be controlled to a large extent.


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Conclusion
As the current demand is 100mm3 by MIDC, but in actual they get 52mm3 of water from Irrigation
for industrial use. So, there is gap of 48mm3 of water. The estimates by DMIC of 25mm3 of water are
required after 2 years, because currently the land acquisition of total 8400 hectares for Shendra-Bidkin
area. Proper treatment on dead stock can overcome the water scarcity for DMIC.
There is much that can be done to improve the productivity of water on technical grounds. The
institutional, social and economic aspects of these improvements need to be carefully investigated to
determine the feasibility of the DMIC project. But, given the fact that existing demand of water like
drinking, irrigation and other water-using systems are not nearly as inefficient as they are commonly
thought to be at the level of estimated efficiency, there will remain a need for further water development
projects. This will require better conjunctive use of surface and subsurface water supplies, water
conservation techniques, small and large dams.
Here is one of the examples of Bramhagavan Water Treatment Project, which will help in
condition of water scarcity to refine and use the dead stock for DMIC and people will not be affected for
scarcity of drinking water (fresh water). In the new era of water management, we should be able to fulfill
the water demand so such projects, so that they will indirectly yield in successful implementation.
From this overall study, Shendra-Bidkin DMIC have to face water scarcity for its development,
because the present and future gap between water demand and supply is high, which have to first prioritize
drinking water and then industrial water.


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Special Thanks to
 Dr I.D. Alte, Professor, MGM IOM, Aurangabad.
 Mr. Vyawahare, Irrigation Engineer, Aurangabad
 Mr. Abasaheb Deshmukh, MIDC, Aurangabad
 Mr. Choudhary, MIDC, Aurangabad
 Mr. Kakade, Senior Engineer, WALMI, Auranagabd

Bibliography
 Department of MIDC, Aurangabad.
 Department of Irrigation, Paithan.
 ISAS_Special Report No_14
 Industrial Policy of Maharashtra 2013
 http://aurangabad.nic.in
 Maharashtra Jeevan Pradhikaran, Aurangabad
 AMC Water Annual Report, 2013.
 www.dmic.gov.in
 www.walmi.gov.in
 Newspaper (Sakal dated on 3rd October,2013)


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Annexure
Analysis of Water Supply and Demand
Calculation:
Present gap between demand and supply of water
Demand = 100mm3
Supply = 52mm3

100 - 52= 48mm3
The gap of 48mm3 water has occurred mainly due to less rainfall, inadequate storage capacity and
improper water harvesting. The water scarcity can be solved by proper coordination. Water loss due to
evaporation can be reduced by supplying from other dam to Jayakwadi during rainy season.

Current Demand for DMIC = 25mm3
As the present supply of water for MIDC is 52mm3 from which DMIC alone needs 25mm3. So, the
dam is having total of 2909mm3 of water from which 0.55% will be requirement of Shendra-Bidkin DMIC
Project.

Future Demand (2042) for DMIC = 58.18 mm3
This shows that for DMIC Project, MIDC have to increase its demand as per future requirement.
The Overall requirement from dam will increase from) 0.55% to 2% of water.


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