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SUMMARY:Transition to Water Resources Sustainability in a Developing Regio
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DTSTART:20110311T111500
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Steven Gorelick\, Department of Environmental Earth Syst
 em Science\, Stanford University\nVarious regions of the world struggle to
  properly manage their water resources in a sustainable manner. Chennai (f
 ormerly Madras) in southeast India\, with a population of over 4 million p
 eople\, is a city with a piped public water-delivery system\, but this sup
 ply is intermittent. The piped system normally provides water for only a f
 ew hours per day.  However\, during the drought of 2003-2004\, water deliv
 eries were suspended.  Out of necessity\, urban consumers have developed v
 arious ways to cope with the intermittent and unreliable supply\, obtainin
 g water from multiple sources. These sources include 400\,000 private well
 s plus groundwater produced outside the city that is delivered by 3\,500 p
 rivate tanker trucks. The viability of the Chennai system is explored with
  an integrated economic-water supply model that is also used to evaluate f
 uture policy options including rooftop rainwater harvesting.
LOCATION:ELA 2
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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