Levers (Key assumptions)

Move the levers to create future scenarios and click the 'Submit' button to see scenario result.

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Water demand

Target water demand per person per day (all sectors): 150 litres

Annual growth rate: 0 %

Water supply

Leakage from BWSSB transmission and distribution: 35 %

Maximum surface water supply (Currently set to Cauvery tribunal limit): 1400 MLD

Current capacity of BWSSB: 1400 MLD

Financial

Cost of BWSSB piped supply per litre: 0.017 Rs/litre

Average price of water supplied to domestic sector: 0.006 Rs/litre

Private groundwater supply

Depth to water table is used to estimate energy for lifting groundwater by private residents: 150 metres

Efficiency is used to estimate energy use by private residents for pumping groundwater: 65%

Energy and emissions

Electricity per unit piped water supply by BWSSB: 0.0016 MWh/Kilo-litre

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Scenario Explorer

The Scenario Explorer allows the user to change some key characteristics of Bangalore's water demand and supply. These changes (or scenario) are passed to a WEAP water resource model residing on Amazon Web Services servers. The model is run, and certain key results are displayed. One important assumption is that all water demand not supplied by the BWSSB is met by groundwater.

Citation:
Mehta, V.K., Wang, D., Kemp-Benedict, E. and Malghan, D. "Web-based urban metabolic mapping for Bangalore, India". AGU Fall 2012 Meeting, San Francisco. Dec 4th, 2012. Poster #IN51D-1715.