The review included, but was not limited to urban hydrology, management of water supply infrastructure, water resources management, water quality management (WQM), groundwater management, technical and economic instruments for water demand management, technical and economic aspects of leakage reduction, environmental and economic aspects of wastewater treatment and reuse, storm water management, capacity building for IUWM and legal and regulatory frameworks.

Primary data collection for 27 cities/towns and secondary data collection for 300 cities/towns was carried out, covering all the 16 delineated typologies. Suitable sets of IUWM interventions were identified for each typology based on the understanding of how the prevailing characteristics of these typologies influenced the physical, economic, institutional, financial and environmental performance of urban water utilities. Continuous interaction of the clients and researchers enriched the content of the tool kit.

Volume 1 of the tool kit provides a brief background and the need for the tool kit followed by details of the five sets of tools and includes:

• Background
• Need for IUWM and tools
• Approach, methodology and scope of the study
• Content and audience for the tools
• Limitations of the toolkit
• IUWM framework
• IUWM framework for different urban typologies
• Details of the tools, which includes:

• The first set that provides analytical procedures for population and urban water demand projections under different socio-economic scenarios. These tools are useful in planning decisions.
• The second include environmental management tools, comprising tools for choosing urban water supply augmentation strategies, wastewater treatment technologies and methods, and storm water management practices.
• The third set of tools deal with capacity building and organizational change issues while the fourth set of relates to community interface.
• The fourth set of tools pertain to issues in good governance, covering the practical suggestions for improving the key areas of urban water governance, and the legal and policy framework for affecting implementation of urban water management interventions.

• Description of tools:

• Conceptual issues in urban population projections
• Urban water demand projections
• Identifying technically feasible and cost effective options for urban water supply
• Socio-economically and institutionally viable options for water supply
• Determining the hydrological opportunity and cost of RWHS
• Scope of desalination
• Determining technically feasible option for wastewater treatment
• Determining the socio-economic viability of the WWT options
• Technically feasible storm water management practices
• Water-less toilets
• Water auditing, and leakage detection and reduction
• Economics of 24X7 water supply schemes and UFW reduction
• Role of water pricing in urban water demand management
• Estimating the elasticity of urban water demand
• Resource evaluation and planning of urban water management actions
• Generating data on water quality
• WEAP simulation of urban water system
• Techno-institutional model for water supply & sanitation for the poor
• Capacity building for IUWM
• Organisation setup for IUWM under different conditions
• Criteria for selection of private sector participation (PSP) models for Integrated Urban Water Management (IUWM)
• Appropriate staffing of urban water utilities
• Community participation in urban water management
• Training for capacity building
• Institutional arrangement for urban water management
• Practices for improving urban water governance
• Legal framework for Integrated Urban Water Management

Volume 2 includes the technical report and provides background literature and details of IUWM, the IUWM frameworks, urban water demand and factors influencing the demand, details of the urban water scenario, management, financing and capacity building for the urban water sector and includes:

• Introduction: Integrated urban water management
• What is IUWM at the operational level
• Why should we invest in Integrated Urban Water Management
• IUWM frameworks
• Urban water demand projections
• Economic options for urban water demand management
• Physical options for water supply management
• Physical options for water demand management
• Urban water supply system planning
• Capacity building in water supply and water quality
• Water supply and sanitation provision in poor urban neighbourhoods
• Financing urban water sector
• Possible effects of disasters on water and sanitation systems
• Investments in urban water infrastructure
• Urban water governance
• Some best practices in urban water management
• Policies and legal framework for urban water management

This work was supported through a grant from Arghyam Trust, Bangalore.

Volume 1 and Volume 2 of the toolkit can be downloaded below: