Performance Evaluation Along with Water Audit of Devdharam Water Treatment Plant, Indore a Case Study

The trend of urbanization in India is exerting stress on civic authorities to provide basic requirement such as safe drinkingwater, sanitation and infrastructure. The rapid growth of population has exerted the portable water demand, which requiresexploration of raw water sources, developing treatment and distribution systems. There is a need to study the watertreatment plants for their operational status and to explore the best feasible mechanism to ensure proper drinking waterproduction with least possible rejects and its management. A case study has been conducted to evaluate the process oftreatment and to find out the problems of drinking water treatment process along with water audit in the unit situated at Devdharam water treatment plant, Indore MP, India. In general, conventional treatment is provided having a sequence of alum addition, coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation, filtration and disinfection by chlorination. Water treatment plants are playing an important role in purifyingand supplying the pure water to the people with minimum water lost. A water audit determines the amount of water lost from a water supply system and the cost of this loss to the utility. It will quantify Unaccounted for Water (UFW) and Non-Revenue Water (NRW). Comprehensive audits can give the utility a detailed profile of the water supply system and water users, allowing easier management of resources and improved reliability. It is an important step towards water conservation and, if linked with a leak detection plan, can save the utility a significant amount of money and time. The study focussed on processing and management of water treatment plant. The operation and maintenance needs to beupdated for the current requirements of people and to match up with some other plants at national and international level.