Transition to Water Resources Sustainability in a Developing Region
Event details
| Date | 11.03.2011 |
| Hour | 11:15 |
| Speaker | Prof. Steven Gorelick, Department of Environmental Earth System Science, Stanford University |
| Location |
ELA 2
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Various regions of the world struggle to properly manage their water resources in a sustainable manner. Chennai (formerly Madras) in southeast India, with a population of over 4 million people, is a city with a piped public water-delivery system, but this supply is intermittent. The piped system normally provides water for only a few hours per day. However, during the drought of 2003-2004, water deliveries were suspended. Out of necessity, urban consumers have developed various ways to cope with the intermittent and unreliable supply, obtaining water from multiple sources. These sources include 400,000 private wells plus groundwater produced outside the city that is delivered by 3,500 private tanker trucks. The viability of the Chennai system is explored with an integrated economic-water supply model that is also used to evaluate future policy options including rooftop rainwater harvesting.
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- Christina Treier