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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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