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Urban Water Management: Challenges and options
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The Urban Water Management (UWM) is a crisis management strategy that draws together all facets of water cycle viz. water supply, sewage and storm water management to integrate strong social, economic and environmental development. The UWM essentially provides for effectiveness in water saving, equity in water sharing and delivery efficiency followed by sustainable use of available water resources. So in this topic let us discuss about the integrated policy and planning for appropriate use of river, ground, rain and sea water, sewage and other water resources.
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Water Treatment
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Rain Water harvesting
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sudhakar
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"INTEGRATION OF RIVERS"
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The best solution is INTEGRATION OF RIVERS ( NATIONAL)
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sai kiran M
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" Rain Water harvesting"
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A good update , Rainwater harvesting not only saves water but also cuts power bill of Municipality but also individual users.
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Santosh Kumar Mohanty
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"Water Treatment"
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Many people have predicted that the World war-III will be for the water. The changes in climate leads in the same direction of water every where, but not a drop to drink. In view of increased population in the cities, the volume of raw sewerage...
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Ideate: "What are the different and innovative ways of water management?" deleted from your view.
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Appropriate use of available water.
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policies and practices does not focus on future needs
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Arindom Borah
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"NO MAINTENANCE, CORRUPTION, LACK OF KNOWLEDGE & INTEREST"
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In Urban areas, it is lack of maintenance and knowledge about machinery. Corruption in Govt funded WSS are also to blame. We see for example, some govt. buying pumps for water supply with motor drives for installation at places where there is...
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malladi madhukumar
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"Co-ordinated effort for water management "
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We could observe that suddenly there are floods within 5-6 months we say there is no water. Co-ordinated effort by Local bodies, between states, central Govt etc should be there to study and recommend for water storage , supplyetc., Since...
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Ideate: " What are the problems with India's water supply system?" deleted from your view.
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Rain water harvesting!!
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Develop sip water capsule
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Sudhakar Dayal Srivastava Dayal Srivastava
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"Backyard Rain Water Harvesting"
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Ther should be few home made ideas which can be implemented using back yard engineering to store some rain water. So far its much talked and less implemented
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Atul Joshi
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"Improve Storage and Distribution"
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So very little is wasted
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sai kiran M
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"Rain water harvesting!!"
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Rainwater harvewsting is best method.
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Ideate: "India's water needs to double in next 20yrs: How can we bridge that Gap?" deleted from your view.
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Enviroment and health issues
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Lack of fund.
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Reni sebastian
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"Lack of fund."
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Most of the states provide drinking water by itself. The supplied water is inadequate and state faces lack of fund to invest in such sector.
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Anjali Bhatia
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"Water scarcity"
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I think water scarcity is one of the major challenge for implementing urban water management. This is because of the large growth in the population and existing sources of water that could be developed cost-effectively have already been developed...
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Ideate: "What are the challenges in implementing urban water management?" deleted from your view.
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Tapping the run-off water from the monsoons
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RECYCLING THE WATER
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SHAKIL AHMED MAJID NADAF
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"Tapping the run-off water from the monsoons"
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Yes, Rain water harvesting system is proven tool to overcome water scarcity.
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Manmohan Singh Sikand
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"Conservation of available natural resource and suitable state policy."
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I am of the strong openion that conservation of available natural resources should be the primary concern for the state, engineers/ managers and the consumers. The augmentation of natural resource is a dangerous expensive proposition and should...
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Omkar Kulkarni
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"Tapping the run-off water from the monsoons"
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I think rain water harvesting should be compulsary in all big cities.
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Ideate: "How water management should be done to overcome scarcity?" deleted from your view.
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Government should give a limited quantity of water to every house
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Shikha Malhotra
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"Government should give a limited quantity of water to every house"
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I think government should give a fixed quantity of water to every house daily, more than which the house need to pay for. In this way, there will be no wastage of water
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Ideate: "How can we check there is minimum wastage of water?" deleted from your view.
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Time for Interlinking of rivers
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Better Water management infrastructure
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Kavitha Shankar
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"Better Water management infrastructure"
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We need to develop better water management system which will reduce from flooding and save the water..... :)
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Omkar Nandi
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"Time for Interlinking of rivers "
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Excessive rains + swelling Yamuna river + Roads digged everywhere for Common wealth games infrastructure, Outbreak of Dengue due to water collection in pits, (Dengue cases expected to peak during CWG) National capital just looks helpless with poor...
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Debate: "Rain water creating a havoc in Delhi" deleted from your view.
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Answer: "solution for water scarcity" deleted from your view.
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POTENTIAL IN WATER FIELD
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NO POTENTIAL
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MILIND VASANTRAO THAKUR
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"POTENTIAL IN WATER FIELD"
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At this point of time India's growth in INFRA. industry is tremendous. Resulting lots opportunity in Road, Power, Construction. This ultimately increasing the migration of people from villages, small town to Third Tier cities upwards. The increase...
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Debate: "OPPORTUNITIES IN WATER FIELD IN INDIA ALONE IN BOOT/PPP" deleted from your view.
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True
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False
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Sudeep Tarafdar
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"True"
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The availability and quality of drinking water is awlays a concern in India. And when the Summer comes India will face water shortage and many villages lack safe drinking water. It is estimated that by 2020, India will become a water-stressed...
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Debate: "Is there problem for getting good quality drinking water in India?" deleted from your view.
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