Chennai Water Resource Management Using GIS

Abstract

Water scarcity is one of the biggest problems in the country of India, this problem is often caused by poor water resource management. Notably in India, the city of Chennai has had a water crisis going on for the past few years. On June 19th, 2019, the city officials declared that the city had run out of water. This was termed as ‘Day Zero’ where there was no water left. Most of the lakes of Chennai dried out. Poor water management and very less rainfall were the major reasons for this scarcity. Water resource management thus is of critical importance to ensure that water is utilized in the right way. So the aim of the proposed system is to evaluate the nature, significance, and rate of change in the water bodies of Chennai over a period of time using GIS/Remote sensing and assess the past and present conditions of water bodies in Chennai and to understand the dynamics and trends of change through various forms of spatial analysis. This is achieved by using different functionalities of ArcGIS and ArcMap and then analysing the obtained data and maps.