Water Supply Scheme for Shimla City for next 30 years

Abstract

In a developing country like India, the problem of availability of funds for the first investment is sometimes very difficult to be solved, as money is required for financing various other important projects such , as those of flood control, education , defence , health , etc. Inspite of such handcaps, the Indian government has done fairly well by spending about 1-3% of their total plan outlays on 'Water Supply and Sanitation sector''. As a result of such investment, India has been able to cover about 84% of its Urban Population (which is about 30% of total population of the country).Population forecast of the city was done by the arithmetic mean method, geometric mean method and incremental increase method. Result from incremental increase method for Population of 2041 i.e.469699 was used for further calculation and design purpose. Results of the Water tests performed for the water sample in the study came out to be acceptable