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REMOTE SENSING AND GIS BASED MAPPING FOR WATER SUPPLY
AND SANITATION (WSS) USING HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE

DATA

Introduction

Water is most precious natural resource for the planet earth and essential
for human and other living organisms, industries, agriculture etc. However,
with the increasing day by day demand and limited natural resources, a
pressure is mounting towards conservative use of this precious natural
resource. Judicious planning of water source and its distribution to all is
challenging task. In this endeavor, the latest innovative technology of
Remote Sensing, GIS, GPS and mobile has opened up new vistas of
adopting Geo-spatial database for effective planning and execution of
Water Supply Schemes.

Realizing the potential of the Geo-spatial database, the Water Supply and
Sanitation Department (WSSD) has decided to entrust the work of
Integrated approach of Designing, development of Geo-spatial technology
based activities in mapping of Drinking Water Sources, its related Assets,
Linkage with Water Quality Monitoring and MIS database for the entire
state to the Maharashtra Remote Sensing Application Centre (MRSAC), an
autonomous body of Planning Department, Government of Maharashtra.

Objective

1. To design, develop and implement ‘Mobile Application’ for field level
Water Source Locations and its allied asset data collection, in a
standardized and easy to acquire pattern.
2. To evaluate and standardize Geo-spatial database required by WSSD
and its allied departments.
3. To store and maintain Geo-spatial database on central server of SDC,
GoM, Mumbai.
4. To develop web browser based application in Geo-portal, for seamless
accessibility in G2G and G2C domain.
5. To evolve Geo-database Quality Assurance checking.
6. To integrate existing MIS database of WSSD, proposed Geodatabase of
WSSD with Natural Resources and Administrative Database; available
with MRSAC through Web Services.

Methodology

Water Supply and Sanitation Department, Government of Maharashtra has
five offices/ agencies under its administrative control for implementation of
Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Schemes in Maharashtra viz.,
Maharashtra Jeevan Pradhikaran (MJP), Ground Water Surveys and
Development Agency (GSDA),Zilla Parishad, Water and Sanitation Support
Organization (WSSO), Jalswarajya (JS-II). With the support of these
offices, WSSD is implementing approximate 1,37,063 number of drinking
water supply schemes in Maharashtra state till end of financial year 2014-

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