Orwad

Orwad is a village located in the Pardi Taluka of the Valsad district of Gujarat. Many people in the village are engaged in fishing activities Residents living there are immigrants from different states of India and few are locals. These immigrants come here to provide services in mills and factories. This village has two mills - an engineering mill named Nidhi engineering mill which produces industrial motors and a saw mill which has been shut down for many years. In comparison to the nearby villages, Orwad is more urbanized and has many RCC buildings and there few buildings that are under construction. Roads are paved and there is also a Garbage disposal system in Orwad which was not observed in the other villages. There is also a mountain in Orwad where Quarry activities take place.

This settlement is formed by digging and clearing out the small portions of hills. Due to which there are irregularities in elevation or some homes you need to step down 2 steps after plinths In urban life the definition of the term water is only limited to use or to consume But in this settlement every individual household treats water as a valuable resource right from consumption to utilizing the used water. Idea of using plants near the common shared toilet so as to avoid strong smell and promote hygiene.

Along with providing and maintaining slope outside the individual home so as to avoid rainwater entering the house.

This map shows the density of apartment houses and individual private houses around the lake. One can see that people have mostly settled to the left end of the lake due to its accessibility to the highway. Very few people have settled at the other side of the lake which is considered as a secluded part of the village. Many apartment buildings have come up in the Orvad village which brings up the question of water supply and sewage flow which is shown in the further drawings.

The graph here represents the total water consumed by all the households in the Orvad village. The divisions are made according to the type of use in the work and how much water is used. One can clearly see that residential buildings have a higher consumption rate compared to private houses. The logistics are worked so as to understand the amount of water one fraction of a whole big system needs.

This is the water systems map of Orvad village. The red color depicts the main pipeline, blue color are the pipelines that go to the individual houses and orange color depicts pipelines of the residential buildings. Green dots are the taps lf the individual houses and the blue dots are the taps of the Apartment buildings where one tap supplies water to all the houses. People in this settlement receive water twice a day which is one hr in the morning and one in the afternoon. For drinking purpose they use 15 ltrs bisleri jars which is supplied every evening.The prominent difference in the village and the settlement we saw is the water flow to the settlements is from the handpump or from the borewells whereas the village gets water through the main pipeline which is connected to the main borewell alongside the lake. And from the main pipeline there are other pipes which goes to all the houses. U put

Here most of the cattle were found. So they used to provide milk to each and every house. Women were using bottle technique to catch the fish. There is also the addition of new fish that occurred in this settlement after fishing. Children were playing on a construction site. Also some of them are migrants. They live here for the time period of 6 to 7 months then another family comes here to live.

This section talks about the involvement of the settlements, the lake and the dump-yard. The settlement which is followed by the sewage water drains the road.

Then there is a vegetation patch where trees are used to cut, then this cut wooden log gets carried to the individual house and used for cooking purposes. Leaves from the trees were also used to graze the cattle. Also there is rain water harvesting in each and every house.

The heat map talks about the interrelation and co-existence of species near and in the lake. How the underground water system works and where the source of it actually is. It also shows the difference between private housing water supply. Presence of handpumps and borewells and how the village majorly runs on them. The system diagram also shows the composition of waste in the dumpyard.

This drawing talks about the influence that various things in and on the lake create on the ecosystem. It also depicts the chemical processes that take place in the lake. Handpump at the lake edge fetches groundwater and residents perform fishing for leisure purposes. The effect of garbage and waste in the lake which results in the birth of floating algae. The garbage creates polluted sediments in the lake.

This diagram talks about the sewage system and how it affects the lake’s ecosystem. It shows the composition of the sewage and various factors which affect the sewage. In the miscellaneous box one can see all the processes that happen in the lake and how each one of them are interlinked. At the right end we can see the end of the diagram which speaks about harming human health and death of aquatic fauna.

The graph here represents the total water consumed by all the households in the Orvad village. The divisions are made according to the type of use in the work and how much water is used. One can clearly see that residential buildings have a higher consumption rate compared to private houses. The logistics are worked so as to understand the amount of water one fraction of a whole big system needs.