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Day Zero is not necessarily the day when water availability will be zero. In reality, the kind of water crisis our cities are already in, the Cape Town kind of measures need to be adopted with immediate effect. On the 1st of August as I landed at Chennai airport, I was expecting some big

Cities , Environment , Food , Opinions , Resources , Science & Technology , Sustainable Development / 08/11/2019

VERTICAL FARMING – PROVIDING PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS TO URBAN CITY CHALLENGES

Ratan Deep Some estimates state that in 50 yrs 70% of the world population will be in “cities”, around 7 billion mouths to feed with a challenging food supply, what if farming moves from its traditional country side towards urban cities. Scientists has been working for this future to address foo

Cities , Climate , Environment , Forests , Opinions , Sustainable Development / 07/22/2019

Let’s redefine public spaces, let’s bring back urban forests

There are two important ways in which we can bring in lasting change in the way cities develop: forestry and conservation of water bodies. The more these resources we have in our cities, the more will be our ability to make the cities grow sustainably while fighting with the impacts of climate

Cities , Climate , Disasters , Environment , Featured , Governance , Sustainable Development / 06/27/2019

Wind from the sea is changing, cities need to change

City-dwellers can no longer ignore the destruction of coastal green corridors such as the mangrove forests. They can’t either leave all responsibility to the urban local bodies and government. They have to work with the city authorities on a climate resilient plan and also support the communitie

Cities , Environment , Health , Science & Technology , Sustainable Development , Transport / 06/02/2019

Electric buses a golden opportunity for India

Aniruddha Bhattacharjee India must not squander this chance, must not repeat the mistakes it made with CNG Back in 1980, Shenzen was a small fishing village in China with 30,000 residents. Today it’s a mega-metropolis of nearly 13 million people. But the economic turnaround did affect the city’s

Cities , Climate , Environment , Governance , Solutions , Sustainable Development / 05/05/2019

How a Japanese system can help African cities adapt to climate change

Seth Asare Okyere, Osaka University; Matthew Abunyewah, University of Newcastle, and Stephen Kofi Diko, University of Cincinnati Machizukuri system of Japan, or variations of it, hold great promise for African cities. As Africa continues to experiment with different ways to ensure adequate citizen e

Cities , Climate , Data & Reports , Environment , Featured , Science & Technology , Sustainable Development , Water / 02/27/2019

Climate’s ‘time bomb’ for world’s groundwater has some serious lessons for Indian cities

Extreme weather events such as droughts and heavy precipitation days are two of the major impacts of global warming. These events, whose frequency and intensities are increasing by the years, may make groundwater replenishment rate too slow in dry areas, a recent study published in Nature Climate Ch

Aid , Cities , Environment , Sustainable Development , Transport / 01/22/2019

Alliance to Harness Tech Disruptions in Urban Transport

Urban mobility disruptions have far-reaching effects, affecting labor, land use, government finances, safety and access to opportunity for millions

Cities , Environment , Governance , Health , Sanitation , Sustainable Development , Waste / 09/08/2018

Garbage menace: Why should urban planners in India take the Court observations seriously?

Garbage dumping yards are piling up across the country. Our municipal bodies are dumping the solid wastes irresponsibly, and most of the times illegally, in such dumping grounds and many other open places including river beds, flood plains, abandoned water bodies, crop fields and nearby villages On

Cities , Data & Reports , Environment , Governance , Opinions , Resources , Sustainable Development , Water / 08/03/2018

India needs big policy push for treatment and reuse of urban wastewater

News of water scarcity fuels a lot of hue and cry in the nation, however when it comes to discussions about solutions we find very less engagement of people across all the sections of the society. It is an irony that when the Niti Ayog released its Composite Water Management Index (CWMI) 2018, the s

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