UWI India


Project title: User-Oriented Needs and Market Analysis for Adaptable, Technology-based Solutions for Urban Water Infrastructure for selected Cities in India (UWI India)
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Dr. Karl-Ulrich Rudolph
Co-operation partner: Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD), Indian Institute of Technology Madras (Chennai, IITM), Federation of the German Waste, Water and Raw Materials Management Industry (BDE), German Water Partnership (GWP), German Engineering Federation (VDMA),
UN-Water Decade Programme on Capacity Development (UNW-DPC)
Sponsor: BMBF (German Ministry of Education and Research) - PT-DLR, International Bureau
Reference number: 01RD1002A


Project objectives

The target of the overall project is to explore and select innovative technologies and service concepts, which might provide an adaptable solution for the severe problems in water and sanitation, which are prevailing in India due the lack of appropriate, functioning urban infrastructure.

The target of this Definition Project is to explore and compare the needs in India (State of Tamil Nadu) with available innovations and established technologies, service concepts in Germany - as basis to define a reasonable program to improve urban water infrastructure with selected solutions (technologies, service concepts) including modifica-tion and measures to adopt these solutions from Germany to the needs in Tamil Nadu.

Work packages

The proposed solution is structurised in the following work packages:

- Analysation of user-oriented needs and demand and evaluation of technology and service concept potentials, innovations from Germany, which might "match" with the need assessment.
- Priorisation ("ranking list") of needs respectively problems with urban water infrastructure and potential of technologies, service concepts as solutions.
- Structurisation of the co-operation and commitment ("ownership") of project partners and stakeholders.
- further measures of communication like workshops, written publications, exhibitions and fairs etc. as well as the concept, which technologies, service models to be adapted and implemented for urban water infrastructure in selected Cities in India, and reporting according to the BMBF-requirements.

Project partners

National and international co-operation partners shall be the IITD - Indian Institute of Technologies in Delhi, with the IITM - Indian Institute of Technologies in Madras (Chennai) as well as the final beneficiaries (water utilities to be selected in Tamil Nadu cities). Industrial partners shall be selected and integrated later, basing on the results of the definition project, i. e. the selected technologies and service concept.

Furthermore, associated partners (informal collaborators) like VDMA (German En-gineering Federation), BDE (Federation of the German Waste, Water and Raw Materials Management Industry), GWP (German Water Partnership) and finally the United Nations Water Decade Programme on Capacity Development (UNW-DPC) are involved.