Organizer: Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE)
Venue: Auditorium, ATREE, Bangalore
Description:
Dr. Veena Srinivasan, researcher at the Pacific Institute, and an adjunct fellow at ATREE, will be presenting a talk on 'An integrated framework for analysis of water supply in a developing world city'.
Abstract of the presentation:
Indian cities are facing a severe water crisis: rapidly growing population, low tariffs, high leakage rates, inadequate reservoir storage, are straining water supply systems, resulting in unreliable, intermittent piped supply. Conventional approaches to studying the problem of urban water supply have typically considered only centralized piped supply by the water utility.
Specifically, they have tended to overlook decentralized actions by consumers such as groundwater extraction via private wells and aquifer recharge by rainwater harvesting. An innovative integrative framework is formulated for analyzing urban water supply in Indian cities. The framework is used in a systems model of water supply in the city of Chennai, India that integrates different components of the urban water system: water flows into the reservoir system, diversion and distribution by the public water utility, groundwater flow in the urban aquifer, informal water markets and consumer behavior. Historical system behavior from 2002-2006 is used to calibrate the model.
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Contact details:
G. Madhavi Latha,
The Academy for Conservation Science and Sustainability Studies,
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE),
Royal Enclave, Srirampura, Jakkur PO,
Bangalore – 560 064
Tel: (080)-23635555 Extn: 121
email: madhavi@atree.org
Website: http://atree.org
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