Patna city :opportunity and

threat in public health sector

By abhishek kumar
sinha
 Physical Attributes

• Patna is located between Latitude: 25° 37'

North and Longitude: 85° 12' East
• surrounded on three sides by rivers—the
Ganga, Sone, and Poonpun
• The precipitation in Patna is 1,100 mm during
the months of June to September
• Temperature 43 °C – 30 °C during the
summers and 21.4 °C – 5 °C during the winters
 CITY ASSESSMENT: ANALYSIS OF
EXISTING SITUATION
• drainage of the city poses as a major problem
• prone to flooding
• core area of Patna faces problems of over
crowing
• problems of water supply, sewerage, drainage,
solid waste management, parking etc
• organic manner, villages are engulfed, good
farming land low is sacrificed, open spaces
disappear
 Water Quality
• The drinking water requirement is met by
underground water
• The parametersof turbidity, total alkalinity, total
hardness, Ca, Chloride, Na, K, Nitrate, sulphate,
Total Dissolved Solid (TDS) and fluorides were are
within permissible limits but the iron content in
water was found to be 0.5mg/L
• Patna district is an arsenic affected area with 1-
10% of Arscenic content of >50 ppt.
 Key indicator
• Source Sustainability
 Groundwater is the major sources of water
supply
River Ganga in north and Sone in south are
surface water sources
there are 89 tube wells with water production of
72 Million Gallons Per Day(MGD) against total
requirement of 50MGD
high water loss (around 40% is T&D loss due old
distribution network)
Service Level
 Service Coverage
• existing water supply system city has been divided into 5
zones namely;
• The existing distribution system is very old and suffers from
heavy leakage
• study conducted by (NIUA), although 75% ofpopulation has
piped water connection but due to low water pressure &
poor supply system,
 around 40% of population has access to both house
connection & public stand post,
 20% of population gets water from public stand post and
 remaining 40% population dependent on private tube
wells.
 Service Efficiency
• Cost Recovery by way of Water Charges is
poor 30% in PMC
• The collection performance indicates that on
an average 47 per cent is collected against the
current demand
• Coordination mechanisms between
responsible agencies are missing.
 SEWERAGE AND SANITATION
• Only 20% of the total households in urban agglomeration areas are
covered with under ground sewerage system, increasing the
dependency on the septic tank and low cost sanitations.
• Septic tank and Low cost Sanitation are supporting around 80-85 per
cent of households, which may pollute shallow ground water with
microbial pollution.
• Public conveniences are not adequate in the city. No user charge on
the public conveniences has deteriorated the condition of existing
system.
• Infiltration of rainwater into sewerage line further aggravates the
problem in monsoon months.
• The partly or wholly untreated effluent flows into open drains.
 STORM WATER DRAINAGE
• city drainage system has to depend on (i) Storm Water
Pumping Stations and (ii) City Zoning as per Natural
Drainage Zones.
• separate sewerage system has been adopted in Patna,
but has low performance in reality.
• The construction of unplanned colonies leads to water
logging
• The encroachments; solid waste dumping and silt
deposition cover the drainage channel and RCC drains
• The multilateral agencies involved in planning,
implementation and operation &maintenance has lead
to mismanagement.
 Gap in Services and Normative
Investment-Water Supply (2021)
Gap in Services -Sewerage and
Sanitation (2021)
Delay a major issue
 My comments
SECTORS OPPORTUNITY THREATS
Storm Water • The interlinking of drains •Unorganized development
Drainage is possible. in the low lying areas and
• major problems are natural drainage channels
Operational are not controlled
• use of this Drainage in • Storm water drainage is
agriculture to be pumped to bale out
the water

Water Supply •Highly fertile and •Extensive utilization of

System productive water belt. ground water lead to
• Low lying areas and problem of arsenic
drainage channels can be •High population growth
Used for Rainwater
harvesting
Sewerage •Model of Low Cost •High population growth
System Sanitation and Septic
Tanks
Thank you