Focusing on Induced Virtual Water

Ankit Pahade, Pranay Khare

The earth’s surface is filled nearly 70% of water but only 3% of this water can be used as potable water. In present days with rapid urbanization and rapid increase in population water conservation has become a major issue. Now days, reduced water consumption is one of the most important objectives of many towns and cities as part of the trend towards more sustainable strategies. As around we see when construction of buildings takes place, there is lot of wastage of water occurs on site, this can be reduced to great extent by using new materials and various innovative techniques. This paper gives various materials and new techniques to reduce consumption and wastage of water on construction site.