Intelligent water conservation and management techniques need to be adopted by the industry such that water can be optimally utilized. Now as per the recent forecasts and frequent occurrence of extreme events, the necessity of such management has become more significant. Based on this need, some start-up businesses can be established which can help to achieve the water conservation goals. Five such ideas are discussed in this presentation.

1. Five New Ideas for
Opening Start Ups in
Water Conservation
Dr.Mrinmoy Majumder
http://www.mrinmoymajumder.online

2. Five Start Up Ideas from Water Conservation
• Climate Risk Assessment Report Preparation Services
• Water Quality Indicator Analysis Services
• Development of Vulnerability Indicator based Apps for Business or
Residential Arenas with respect to the water pipe network
• Flood Potential Indicator
• Drought Probability Indicator

3. Introduction
• "Water is a key element for the process industry and a core component for recycling and sustainable
management. In industry, water fulfills many functions, including its use as raw material, as a means of
transport as well as its use for cleaning and cooling"
• "The global Smart Water Management market size is expected to grow USD 13.8 billion in 2021 to USD
22.4 billion by 2026, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 10.1% during the forecast period".
• Intelligent water conservation and management techniques need to be adopted by the industry such that
water can be optimally utilized.
• Now as per the recent forecasts and frequent occurrence of extreme events, the necessity of such
management has become more significant.
• Based on this need, some start-up businesses can be established which can help to achieve the water
conservation goals.
• Five such ideas are discussed next.

4. Climate Risk
Assessment
Report
Preparation
Services
Every organization nowadays tries to prepare the Climate Risk
Assessment Report to avoid any regulatory measures from the city
administration.
“Climate risk assessment, also known as climate change risk
assessment, is a systematic process to identify potential hazards
from climate-related events, trends, forecasts, and projections, so
you can start developing plans to avoid or manage these risks”
CRA Report preparation service can be a lucrative opportunity and
start-ups can be established based on this possibility.
If anyone has knowledge on water/environment/hydrology and
informatics he/she can use it for the preparation of CRA for various
companies and can earn handsome money from this business.

5. Water
Quality
Indicator
Analysis
Services
Water Quality is an important parameter that needs to be determined for various purposes.
Clean water supports a diversity of plants and wildlife.
Drinking water quality varies from place to place, depending on the condition of the source water from
which it is drawn and the treatment it receives, but it must meet government regulations and standards.
Due to natural hazards also the quality of water can be degraded and may become vulnerable which can
lead to health disasters.
For example, monitoring Turbidity at dredging sites or Dissolved Oxygen at hydropower facilities, or various
water quality parameters at Inland Lake, stream, and river help to maintain not only human well-being but
also the socio-economical and environmental status of the dependent region.
So, monitoring the quality of water is essential for a business as well as residential complexes to maintain
the health and sanity of the area.
So, an app can be developed connected to a real-time monitoring device, measuring the major quality
parameters.
The app can alert the user when water quality degrades beyond a minimum threshold. It may also show the
mitigation measures to reverse the degradation and to maintain the quality of water as per the prevalent
standards.

6. Development of
Vulnerability
Indicator based
Apps for Business
or Residential
Arenas with
respect to the
water pipe
network
The sensitivity or susceptibility of any system with respect to a problem can be
found out by vulnerability analysis.
Such analysis can also highlight the capacity of the system to withstand the
adversary.
Many business or housing areas are vulnerable to water-related problems which
can have a huge impact on the resident of that area.
Such areas depend on pipe networks for the supply of water to each of the
consumers. Whenever leakage or reversal of pressure etc. problems takes place in
the pipeline, the entire complex can become water-less.
To prevent such hazards Vulnerability Indicator apps can be developed which can in
real-time monitor the vulnerability of the pipe network. Once a vulnerability is
detected it can alert the responsible people who can take appropriate measures to
reduce the exposure due to that vulnerability.

7. Flood
Potential
Indicator
The flood Potential of a site is required to be analyzed before the
approval of any project as the high probability of flood will make
the site vulnerable to flood-related hazards.
So, the Flood Potential Indicator-based App can be made to
analyze the flood potential of different areas of a state/country.
The advanced technology of GIS can be utilized in this aspect.
Maps with various layers can be prepared and flood potential
can be approximated from those maps by the user of the app.
A subscription-based service can be offered to interested
customers.

8. Drought
Probability
Indicator
The water availability situation of a location can be analyzed for different time duration to identify
drought-prone or drought-like situations. A drought is defined as "a period of abnormally dry
weather sufficiently prolonged for the lack of water to cause a serious hydrologic imbalance in the
affected area." -Glossary of Meteorology (1959).
In easier to understand terms, a drought is a period of unusually persistent dry weather that
persists long enough to cause serious problems such as crop damage and/or water supply
shortages.
The severity of the drought depends upon the degree of moisture deficiency, the duration, and
the size of the affected area.
But the problem is drought can not be identified objectively. Again, once a drought-like situation
takes place the productivity of the relevant industry gets compromised." Businesses that depend
on farming, like companies that make tractors and food, may lose business when drought
damages crops or livestock"(source).
If an indicator can be developed which can represent and identify the drought or drought-like
situation based on the real-time climatic data, then the impact due to such hazards can be
avoided or minimized by adopting mitigative technologies.
The same index can be used to approximate the chance of drought in the coming days. An app can
be developed which can deliver these types of data to the subscriber.

9. Conclusion
Presently the water-related problems and
their hazards are not objectively managed in
most of the industries and big housing
complexes.
However, in the future when water will
become precious, demand for such services
will take its peak.
That is why developing startups now, based
on such app-based services to manage and
conserve water optimally, will be a lucrative
idea.