 Time is Running Out: Does Mumbai have Enough Water?Dhaval D Desai and Raj Varsha Working Papers from eSocialSciences Abstract: Mumbai has the potential to become one of the world’s ideal cities in terms of sustainable water management. With abundant natural and perennial water sources around it, the megacity is currently one of the most secure metropolises in the country in terms of water availability. However, a very critical issue in satisfying the ever increasing demands of its teeming millions and overcoming the consequent complex challenges is of sustainable water management. This report has used a combination of official primary data gathered through consultations and interviews, and relied on authentic secondary inputs to understand the current complexities and future challenges. It analyses the supply and demand aspects, focuses on the critical technical, financial and societal challenges, and uses a number of local, Indian and international case studies and recommends a series of short-, medium- and long-term measures to make Mumbai a water sustainable city. Keywords: water; Mumbai; sustainable city; local; Indian and international case; technical; financial and societal challenges; megacity; metropolises; sustainable; water management; cities; natural; perennial; water sources; water availability; Sewage Treatment; Navi Mumbai (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:10726 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Working Papers from eSocialSciences |
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