Managing Water Resources via Water-EnergyEnvironment Approach for Smart Cities in Meghalaya (India): A Civil Society Perspective
Journal Title: JOURNAL OF ADVANCED RESEARCH IN CONSTRUCTION AND URBAN ARCHITECTURE - Year 2017, Vol 2, Issue 3
Abstract
Judicious management of water resources is the key to building smart cities because water is climate change and it is helpful in enhancing resilience to water-induced and environment-induced vagaries. The current trajectories of developing smart cities are usually based on based on ‘sectoral or silo approach’ and these are unlikely to help develop sustainable smart cities. Hence, there is need to focus attention on water-energy-environment nexus approach for developing viable and sustainable smart cities. Ensuring security of water, energy and environment is sine qua non for human survival. The sustenance of social and economic development can only be facilitated through enhancing resilience against the vagaries of climate change, availability of sufficient water and energy. The close links between water, energy, environment in management, analysis, planning and implementation are duly acknowledged under this nexus approach. In accordance with this approach, strategies and plans pertaining to water are worked out in tandem with the stakeholders, with the objective of avoiding cross-sector impacts and, perhaps more importantly, looking for combined solutions and synergies for more efficient resource use in building smart cities. India Water Foundation, as knowledge partner of Meghalaya Basin Development Authority (MBDA), Government of Meghalaya, has helped in implementing water-energy-environment nexus approach which is being implemented under the flagship programme- Integrated Basin Development & Livelihood Programme (IBDLP) of the government of Meghalaya in a mission mode with more than 20 missions to develop both rural and urban areas in a sustainable manner. Development of many urban and peri-urban areas in Meghalaya is taking place on the pattern of ‘smart cities’. IWF has facilitated this by capacity building programmes of the stakeholders.
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Arvind Kumar
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