How urban infrastructure can be eco- friendly?

Waste is becoming a major public health and environmental concern in urban areas of many developing countries. Managing domestic, industrial and commercial waste has traditionally consisted of collection, followed by disposal. Depending upon the type of waste and the area, a level of processing may follow collection. There are many waste management techniques like ocean dumping, land fill and recycling.

Yes i agress with the other listed 3 points but we need to follow the soal process to make eco-friendly. Our NBC, and other guildlines are a bit old and much more eco-friendly process is not defined. Starting from the urban planning, we need to transplant or relocate the previous trees, proper usage and protectation of top soil, proper drainage design, proper design of the electrical, air conditioning system. Still we follow old rule of water requirement per peron per day i.e. 45 l/day/person, still we design our electrical equipment load requirement keeping 220 V, still we want to outsource the carpet or tiles from US or other foreign country, all our design are very correct but it is on the highest side. We need minor correction but it will give the major saving.

Minimizing of artifical light and more use of natural light is the best approach to any eco-friendly building w.r.t. to slight design change and not w.r.t any HVAC, Electrical design.

Proper internal and external shade, skylight, light pipe and nos. of method are there to simply minimize the total heat load calculation and thus overall energy consumption of the building at the predesign or planning stage.

All you need to do, follow TERI or LEED, do Enegy Modeling & Lighting Simulation

Urban people face a lot of problems because of bad drainage facilities. The city waters flows throw many drains and when they are blocked because of any case, it irritates the users for 3-4 days till they register a complaint. There are many manholes and drains uncovered which becomes a breed hub for harmful insects. Government should take care for this problem...

Urban planning needs to be more inclusive to cater to the spatial requirements of the growing urban poor migrating from rural and other areas in search of livelihoods and for their honourable and quality life. A healthy and enlightened slum dweller living in an environmentally sound space will contribute to national growth. . Environmental and social Infrastructre with appropriate environmentally sustainable technologies  will help improve their quality of life. Some subsidies are of course needed for him for a few years to establish himself and to improve his living standards and quality of life. Gradually, the subsidy element can be minimized to make him self reliant. Establishing community structures and building their capacities to take care of themselves like the rban Self Help Groups in Andhra Pradesh may contribute a lot. The planning function needs to be pro-poor and inclusive to realize this dream.

g. kondala rao

Superintending Engineer (Slum Development)

Mission for Elimination of Poverty in Municipal Areas

Andhra Pradesh

Hyderabad.

A few  more are:-

• A Community based Bio-gas production center in each location, Gas so produced can be distributed to them equally. Food, Vegetables, Fruits wastes can be used for conversion.Individual are to deposit.
  
• Community based Solar station in each locality to cop up with power cuts.
• Regular testing, inspection of Drinking water without fail.
  
• Good drainage for rain water. No stagnation of water due to heavy rain fall.
• Segregated & classified wastes to be disposed off either  by Municipality or NGO working over there. EVEN A SMALL AMOUNT OF MONEY CAN BE COLLECTED FOR THIS SERVICE  BUT NOT TAXING TOO MUCH.
• Land fill & Incineration points are located well away from dwelling points.
• Collect polythene material separately & recycle or dispose off as advised.

while planning the projects in urban infrastructure development take atmost care to avoid impactness on enviornment as develop drains according to existing natuaral drain paths and alaign roads most carefully to avoid cutting of trees.  etc.

ppl shud think of completely degradation the waste it is possible by biological methods or combination of chemical or biological methods of degradtion.

Its time to act rather than giving ideas. we have all the ideas for the questions but noboady is taking initiative to act. Reuse,recyle,reduce,recover is good idea there are some things which we can "avoid" like use of plastic bags

What our fast growing urban landscape requires is an 'Integrated Urban Planning' encompassing the present & future needs of cities & towns, providing adequate green cover, infrastructure for Water & Waste Water Management, Segregated Waste Disposal Plans, Public Transport, Distributed Commercail centres with Promenades and other public amenities.

There are no transparent plan for upcoming / existing proposal in Government side. First, Government should initiate the share all ideas to stakeholder,experts and NGO's.

For increasing the size of the cities, trees are getting cutted daily in a huge number causing a lot of problem in climate, temperature and pollution. The government should take care while constructing that least number or no trees are cut also if possible, to plant trees more and more in an artistic way which will