Thirsty Cities
How Indian Cities Can Meet their Water Needs
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP India
- Date of Publication 2 October 2014
- ISBN 9780198099550
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages316 pages
- Size 223x147x32 mm
- Weight 582 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Tables - 36 and Figures - 22 0
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Short description:
The book presents all the aspects relevant to sustainable management of water in urban areas along with suggesting a number of solutions from rainwater harvesting to community participation and public-private-partnerships. This book presents an Integrated Urban Water Management (IUWM) framework for India.
MoreLong description:
Urban water management is an important challenge for many developing countries of the world, characterized as they are by high development economics, rapid urbanization, and unregulated industrialization. With urban population increasing by 38.1 million from 2001 to 2011, infrastructure in Indian cities, including water supply, has come under enormous pressure. A number of solutions from rainwater harvesting to community participation and public-private partnerships have been suggested. This book argues against these fragmented approaches and presents an Integrated Urban Water Management (IUWM) framework for India. The author elucidates how IUWM takes a comprehensive approach to urban water services, viewing water supply, storm water, and waste water as components of an integrated physical system and recognizes that the physical system sits within an organizational framework and a broader natural landscape. He discusses how the policies for sustainable urban water management will be decided by the type of physical interventions, economic instruments, and institutional changes required for achieving the goal of IUWM. Since these would change across localities, the policies also will have to be different for different localities.
MoreTable of Contents:
List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgements
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Why Is Sustainable Urban Water Management Critical for Survival of Cities?
The Challenge of Sustainable Urban Water Management in Developing Economies
Deriving a Town-level WATSAN Vulnerability Index for Urban Areas
Physical Choices for Water Supply Management in Urban Areas
Technological Choices for Reducing Water Demand in Different Urban Landscapes
Economic Instruments for Water Demand Management in Urban Areas
Capacity Building for Sustainable Urban Water Management: Institutional Reforms
Organizational Strengthening for Urban Water Management
Institutional Arrangements for Urban Water Management
Improving Urban Water Governance
Policies and Legal Framework for Sustainable Urban Water Management
Summary of Findings and Conclusions
References
Index
