Mayank Pandey

UI4004

Sanitation Centric River Management

This pilot project provides a sanitation centric urban river management framework, by analyzing existing river and sanitation related frameworks, and informed by assessment of city of Surat's sanitation sector through a semester long studio including several visits to the city for understanding on ground situation. The framework developed can be applied in any river in an urban area to identify and solve problems from a sanitation centric perspective. Applying the framework to Tapi in Surat, part of area-based solutions has been developed as a demonstration project.

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An overview of sanitation sector of Surat and introduction to river management, sanitation and Tapi in Surat

Aim, objectives, scope and methodology of the project

Learnings from case studies and existing frameworks

SCRM framework and assessment of Tapi

Localized assessment based on SCRM framework

Site identification for pilot project

Proposed solutions - Decentralized sanitation system

Proposed solutions - IEC Campaign

Project execution and impact

An artistic poster capturing essence of the project

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