Centre for Air & Water Modalling (CAWM):
CAWM was initiated by Gyan Vihar Universe as a research centre for air and water testing in the year 2002. Deeply concerned by the growing deterioration in the quality of water and air, CAWM commenced investigative studies of the problems related to air and water pollution that affected the health of the general populace.

CAWM was established with the following objective in mind:

• To provide an institutional framework that will support collaborative research across disciplines and offer the expertise and advice of the faculty members of Gyan Vihar Universe in engineering, bio-technology, microbiology, earth and environmental sciences.
• To interact with research organizations like BIST, NEERI, CSE, IITs, CESE, IIMs, AICTE, DST and the National Laboratories in India, and similar research facilities abroad.

The Centre develops research projects regarding areas of concern that are having a deleterious effect on the health of the local population. Quality of air and water are matters of not just national but of universal concern, and we at Gyan Vihar devote a considerable amount of time and energy to find solutions to local and state problems, and draw the attention of the concerned authorities to them. Our projects have integrated interdisciplinary co-ordination with areas of science and engineering that are related to air and water pollution in order to resolve problems that need urgent attention, as well as proposing long term strategies to obviate the recurrence of this scourge.

The broad areas of the focus of our research are further sub-divided into segments that call for specialization and development in technologies that address the primary problems the quality of air and water vis-à-vis their effects on the human population. At times certain segments identified as thrust areas have a significant impact on the development infrastructure including labs and the concomitant equipments, as well as on the growth of scientific, technological and human resources.

In the course of our work new ideas are constantly thrown up, and unexplored areas of work are taken up for study and development. These more often than not result in new and startling findings. And these have a benign and positive effect on the improvement of life styles, environmental impact, health and safety hazards, and even on the study of climate variation.

OBJECTIVES

•  Key indicators are water, soil and air.

• Offer advise and suggestions to Policy making bodies and regulatory authorities (CGWB, RSGWB, PHED, RSPCB &, RllCO). Ensuring Water and air quality standards, and reduction of water & air pollutants.

• Establishment of a database centre for air and water samples of different localities
  Searching and processing materials, and designing of tools/ equipments for the air and water models.

• Development of appropriate green chemistry.

• Develop efficient and adaptable technologies for problems of polluted air and water as prototype equipment/ machines.

• Safe water purifiers and accessories for breathing apparatus.

• Development of efficiently working, and adaptable rural & urban area purifiers

• To work out air and water pollutants (pesticides, toxic metals, bacteria’s protozoan, parasites, algae, fungi, suspended particles, and industrial wastes), analyze them provide a solution to the problem at hand.

• Rain water contamination with a large number of pollutants that are man-made, and deviations in the weather patterns.

• Study of pollutants such as suspended particulate matters, volatile organic compounds and toxic gases

• Research, study and analysis of weather patterns and pollutants.

• Environmental impacts as of buildings, modern architecture, greenery as well as reduction of crop yield, and the reduction of aquatic animals and plant.

• Water Management issues { different water resources and their viability), water conservation, waste water engineering & technology , air monitoring technologies ,potable water and health hazards ,water pollutants, water testing techniques & standards , Climate and environmental activity, soil chemistry, it’s social and economic impact, ecological impact analysis and modeling and simulation systems}

• Correlation between Ground water flow and Chemical fluxes

• Knowledge creation & management in specific areas; Innovation in Technology

• Rain water Conservation: Roof water harvesting cum artificial GW recharge as designing, implementation of system and promotion of Community Water Recharging.

ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE CAWM

Potable Ground Water Quality of Jaipur City and its agglomerates for Surveillance and Input of Slow Poison to Jaipurites (R.C.Chhipa and Sudhanshu Sharma) {UNDR COMMN.}

Slow Poison in Water of Jaipur: Fluoride & Nitrate as Health Hazards R.C.Chhipa* and Sudhanshu Sharma {UNDR COMMN.}

Paper Communication Entitled As” Membrane Based Separation of Water Pollutants by Dr.R.C.Chhipa and Dr.Sudhanshu Sharma for All India Seminar “Emerging Trends and Sustainable Technologies for Separation Process in Chemical and Allied Industries held on 28-29 July2007 at The Institution of Engineers (India)

Research Communication Entitled As” Bioremediation as Separation of Toxic Metals from Polluted Water by DR.R.C.Chhipa; for the Presentation in All India Seminar “Emerging Trends and Sustainable Technologies for Separation Process in Chemical and Allied Industries held on 28-29 July2007 at The Institution of Engineers (India)
 

Research Communication Entitled As” Total Productive Management: Productivity and Quality in Water Management“ by DR.R.C.Chhipa Dr.Sudhanshu Sharma Er.G.D.Mehra# and Dr.J.L.Sehgal+ for The Presentation In “The All India Seminar on AUTOMATION IN MANUFACTURING & PROCESS AND ALLIED INDUSTRIES held at the Institution of Engineers on 18-19 AUG 2007 .

Solution Exchange for the Water Community Consolidated Reply “Resources on Management of Risks in Water Quality - Examples; Referrals”.

R.C.Chhipa and Sudhanshu, Centre for Air & Water Modeling Gyan Vihar Universe, Jaipur, “SLOW POISON IN DRINKING WATER & HEALTH HAZARDS” WES-Net India Newsletter April 2007 -
 

PRESENTATION

Presented lecture “impact of water pollution on human beings”: health hygiene with toxic pollutants in drinking water at workshop on environment and pollution awareness; techno-scientific and social perspectives (June 13, 2004 sobhasaria engg.Sikar)

R.C.Chhipa Keynote addresses SLOW POISON IN WATER: HEALTH HAZARDS TO
JAIPURITES at University of Rajasthan, Jaipur Nov. 2006.

R.C. Chhipa, addressed “Poison in Drinking Water and Health Hazards” on Seminar on Environment dated 22.12.2006 at Subhodh PG College Jaipur 

FURURE PROGRAMS {as research oriented project and courses}

• Water fluctuation and Water Infrastructure Security Enhancements

• Hydrological Mapping with GW quality analysis & Interpretation

• Rainfall pattern & Distribution analysis

• Accreditation and Partnership for Safe Water

• Water Audit with Rainfall pattern & Distribution analysis

• Strategies for RW harvesting and Catchments Management plan

• Water & sanitation in rural areas

• Soil resources and minimization of soil subsidence from water resources

• Establishment of, Saline and Arid Zone National Access Laboratory (SAZNAL)

• And work on related agriculture, issues such as, soil, water and nutrients