1Research scholar,
2Professor,
Water is major requirement for any business, be it agricultural, food processing industries, construction, textile, or others. Hotel industry is also one of them that required huge amount of water every day to provide different services to their guests. The industry only provides luxuries and exotic services to their guests it does not produce any product. Thus, the responsibility towards the environment is forefront for the hospitality industry. Water is the most prominent source of nature that is the most burning issue all over the world now days. Hotel industry need to focus on their water uses and must limit it with applying various measures by reusing, recycling and conserving. Water scarcity issues are not hidden to anyone nowadays, from domestic to industrial level many technologies and measures are employed by users, providers and promoted by government to save and conserve water. The present study focuses on the water saving systems of hotels of Rajasthan. Rajasthan is a hot region and it has water shortage since years thus the responsibility of the hoteliers towards to save water by implementation of different useful techniques is expected high for water conservation. The study also provides an overview on water scarcity in the region and significance to preserve water resources. The study result shows that most of the five stars and four-star hotels are implementing water saving measures in their properties while majority of three-star hotels have no such policy.
Water Conservation, Water Management, Environment, Rajasthan
