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GOING FORWARD                                             BEST PRACTICES



                             •  Ideating, implementing, upscaling, and advocating the   •  IoT-based Smart Water Management” has been an
                               “One Water” concept through a water value chain           important project undertaken by the Trusts in
                               approach. This  will entail:  (a)  reducing  and reforming   partnership with Tata Community Initiatives Trust. The
                               water demand; (b) restoring and recharging water          adoption of advanced technologies to improve
                               availability; (c) operating and maintaining water supply   consumer-centric service delivery mechanisms will help
                               systems; and (d) ensuring continuation of safe            in chart new paths for building transparency. The power
                               sanitation, hygiene, and waste management, including      of information can be realised by users seeking better
                               menstrual waste.                                          services to fulfil basic human needs, such as access to
                                                                                         drinking water.
                             •  Providing  support to the community for creating
                               infrastructure at the grassroots level for drinking
                                                                                       • Adoption   of   menstrual   hygiene   management
                               water supply, water conservation, storage, recharge,
                                                                                         interventions in some of the mainstream programmes
                               and wastewater reuse, as well as community
                                                                                         undertaken by the government.
                               sanitary complexes.
                                                                                       • Promotion of micro- entrepreneurship among rural
                                                                                         women to set up a supply chain mechanism and improve
                                                                                         access to menstrual absorbents in remote rural areas.
                                                                                         The operating model has helped rural women in
                                                                                         generating alternative livelihood opportunities.

                                                                                       • Promoting the adoption of technology to eradicate
                                                                                         manual scavenging in urban areas has been one of the
                                                                                         major highlights of the Trusts’ work, in partnership with
                                                                                         Tata AIG and Ulhasnagar Municipal Corporation (UMC).
                                                                                         The Trusts have provided two robotic units to UMC and
                                                                                         trained local sanitation workers to operate them to clean
                                                                                         sewer networks. Apart from providing health benefits
                                                                                         and reducing risks for sanitation workers, it also
                                                                                         provided them dignity.
                             •  Building capacity and strengthening institutions.

                             •  Focusing on changing the behaviour of the community
                               and getting them involved in the process of e cient
                               water  management, is  critical to  the success  of the
                               programme.

                             •  Leveraging technology throughout the value chain of
                               water, right from assessment to delivery to monitoring.
                               This includes the use of sensors to measure supply
                               system e ciencies, identify damages, and reduce waste.



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