What is it about?
Water is a primary natural resource. All lives need water to live. Since urban population is growing, the water demand is also growing. Hence, by water management paths the water resources of the metropolitan cities like Chennai have to be improved to sustain population and the economic growth.
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Why is it important?
In the present trend of population growth, about 60% of global population are going to live in the urban area around 2030. Since food is provided to urban area by farmers from villages or by virtual water trade, the water demand of cities has to be improved by water management paths within the city area. Since our paper 'Urban resilient integrated water management pathways, to achieve sustainable water resources development in Chennai metropolitan city, Tamil Nadu, India' found the appropriate paths to sustain water resources development in 2050 and beyond, every city in the world could practice these paths and sustain water resources development.
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I myself with my family lived with acute water scarcity in Chennai city from 1980 to 1986. We felt the stinking condition of the biologically dead Cooum River in the above city every minute since we lived very near to this river. Every visitor to Chennai felt and feeling the bad smell of the river. My personal life made me to think to arrest the water scarcity of this developing city, the capital of Tamil Nadu state, India and suggest treating and recycling the sewage to an appropriate standard to transform the dead river into a living river as well as to arrest the stinking environment. So our paper would serve the purpose of solving the water scarcity of cities as well as to protect the environment by practicing similar options suggested in our paper.
Dr.Natarajan Pachamuthu Muthaiyah
Bharathidasan University
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This page is a summary of: Urban resilient integrated water management pathways, to achieve sustainable water resources development in Chennai metropolitan city, Tamil Nadu, India, Water Practice & Technology, August 2017, IWA Publishing,
DOI: 10.2166/wpt.2017.057.
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