ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Comprehensive Water Management Plan (CWMP) for Indian Cities is a project in association with the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs under the Green Strategic Partnership between India and Denmark.
This study aims to focus on the two key-objectives for developing a comprehensive water management plan, while throwing light upon the present water scenario of Varanasi and Udaipur, the two cities and comparing their different challenges to shows how these challenges can be addressed by using principles of Integrated Urban Water Management. A comprehensive plan to manage the entire volume of water that a city deals with, and would be dealing with in the coming ten years would help the implementors to take a holistic approach to manage the water-challenges in a city. Water is the key reflector of climate-change, and through such a plan, the Urban Climate Resilience can also be addressed. While quantitative analysis is important to estimate future scenarios, qualitative analysis and a stakeholder-based bottom-up approach is also important to implement a plan on a real-scale. The urban water-balance is another spectrum to the law of conservation, depicting the equilibrium of the water that the city gets, and the city utilizes.
