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    Urban Water Systems in India: A Way Forward

    Shah, Mihir | May 2016
    Abstract
    Urban water and wastewater management are relatively under-studied subjects in India. The Indian urban space has been understood in an undifferentiated manner, which ignores the specificities deriving from the stage of urban development, the sources of water, as also the diverse nature of aquifers characterizing urban settlements. This paper provides a new presentation of the urban water problem and offers a set of solutions that are sustainable, both in ecological and financial terms, and seek to tackle the deep inequities in the urban water space in India. It highlights the significance of groundwater, the dark spot of Indian urban water planning and proposes a typology that could be used to comprehend the diversity of urban aquifer formations. The paper highlights the urban wastewater challenge and emphasises the need to work simultaneously on water and wastewater management. The paper advances a series of hypotheses, an initial analytical framework and the outlines of a way forward for urban water systems in India, which could provide a rich terrain for further research. The paper concludes with brief illustrative case-studies of two major emerging cities – Indore and Nagpur – where the new approach advocated in the paper could be fruitfully tried out.
    Citation
    Shah, Mihir. 2016. Urban Water Systems in India: A Way Forward. © Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/6523.
    Keywords
    Urban Plans
    Economic Development
    Urban concentration
    Sewage management
    Sanitation services wastes
    Water Shortage
    Access To Water
    Available Water
    Demand For Water
    Drinking Water
    Drinking Water And Sanitation
    Freshwater
    Groundwater Quality
    Managing Water Resources
    Demand For Water
    Urban Development
    Urban Conditions
    Urban Areas
    Public Water Supplies
    Water & Sanitation Assocation (Wasa)
    Water And Sanitation
    Urban renewal
    Local government
    Fresh water
    Water quality management
    Drinking water protection
    Water quality
    Water availability
    Public utilities
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    Shah, Mihir
    Theme
    Urban
    Water
     
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