Application of Game Theoretical Model for Water Management in Rajkot City, Gujarat, India

Reema Gupta¹ , B. K. Singh² , Gaurav Agarwal³

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Isroset-Journal
Vol.5 , Issue.4 , pp.192-197, Aug-2018

CrossRef-DOI:   https://doi.org/10.26438/ijsrmss/v5i4.192197

Online published on Aug 31, 2018

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Abstract :
Water is essential for the existence of society and needs in all human activities. In the present study, a game theoretical model developed to encourage the maximization of the public benefits in water distribution management in Rajkot city for different players. The present study concludes that Rajkot city demand-supply gap is 33 MLD and is expected to increase to 119 MLD and 236 MLD by 2035 and 2050 respectively. By 2035, when the population of Rajkot city grows to 21 lakh, the present water capacity would be insufficient to provide almost 50% of the city. This gap is continually increasing day by day as population increases and will become double in the year 2050. In the present study, five user game-theoretical model formulated for five players (industry, public, institutional, domestic and UFW) to minimize water demand supply gap based on current water supply in Rajkot city from all five water sources i.e. Ajii-I, Narmada, Nyari-I, Bhadar, Nyari-II. Asymmetric Nash bargaining approach is used to develop a game-theoretic model for the optimization of the weighted Nash product to obtain the actual solutions. From the study, it concluded that there is no water distribution strategy which satisfies the need of domestic users with current water distribution system. It calls for the establishment of new sources of water supply, their conservation, and optimal utilization.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Water demand-supply gap, Water management, Game theory, Game theoretic model

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