Water Insecurity in Asian Cities

Ray, Bhaswati; Shaw, Rajib

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“…The risks of natural hazards to water supplies can be particularly acute in low‐ and middle‐income countries that face rapidly growing demand for urban water supplies, alongside under‐investment in system maintenance and upgrade (Khatri et al., 2009; Ray & Shaw, 2019; van der Bruggen et al., 2010). These countries are often also disproportionately impacted by extreme and chronic climatic events and have limited institutional capacity to adapt (Rouse, 2013).…”

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A Multi‐Hazard Risk Framework to Stress‐Test Water Supply Systems to Climate‐Related Disruptions

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Resilient water supply infrastructure is fundamental for human life and wellbeing (Hallegatte et al., 2019). As adverse impacts of climate change threaten the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (UN, 2021), the need for resilient water supply infrastructure is increasingly important if several SDG targets including clean water and sanitation (SDG 6) are to be met by 2030 (Krueger et al., 2020). However, climate extremes, such as droughts and floods, pose a high risk to water supply infrastructure given their proximity to, and dependency on, water bodies

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“…The water-stressed nature of some of the urban geographies of the Global South and its interlinkage with questions of urban poverty and climate change induced vulnerability is identified as a persistent and escalating crisis (Lundqvist et al, 2003; Ray and Shaw, 2019). 1 The crisis is as much a product of socio-political processes as it is of ecological occurrences (Truelove, 2019; Ahlers et.al., 2014; Swyngedouw, 2004).…”

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Contextualizing Collaborative Planning: Addressing Water Resilience in the Urban Poor Settlements of Ranchi

Mohan¹

2023

Planning Theory

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The research embarks from the standpoint that unequal geographies of service delivery in the Southern city evidence differentiating practices embedded within dominant rational planning practices. It aligns and responds to the call of Southern urban theorists to develop alternative planning practices by anchoring within the socio- spatial specificities of Southern urbanisms. Foregrounding this objective, the research turns to the collaborative planning model and its pragmatic tradition of resisting the subjugating tendencies of instrumental rationality by admitting new ways of knowing and being from the life-world. Drawing upon a multi-actor collaboration that sought to address the circumstance of water insecurity in the urban poor settlements of Ranchi city, the research uses Healy’s (1997) Forum, Arena and Courts as entry points to frame on-ground recursive and collaborative interventions. These include unpacking the context to frame and implement interventions that sought to enhance water security while operationalising supporting actions that aim to sustain the interventions. Within this framing, the paper draws upon the critiques of the collaborative planning model as standpoints for contextual reinterpretation to foreground a) the importance of empowering strategic actors at the bottom of socio-political hierarchies to lead the process; b) conceptualize consensus as a process rather than an end-point recognizing its intrinsic relationship with conflict; and, c) institutionalizing formalized yet flexible processes for consensus-building. Overall the paper argues that collaborative planning with its focus on the particularities of place and on the human capacity to invent, create, and transform presents a viable starting point for resisting the dominating confines of instrumental rationality in significant ways.

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“…rapid population growth and changing climate, are making cities susceptible to rising water stress and water insecurity (Ray & Shaw, 2019). Thus, it is imperative that concepts related to enhancing water security, which usually require a "bottomup" approach, be implemented at the local level, such as the city for sustainable growth and increased productivity (Babel et al, 2020).…”

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How to measure urban water security? An introduction to the Water Security Assessment Tool (WATSAT)

2023

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The objective of the project was to develop a web-based digital tool called the Water Security Assessment Tool (WATSAT) to help city authorities and decision-makers make an objective evaluation of the water security situation in the city. It uses an indicator-based methodology that measures five distinct dimensions (broad elements) of water security: “Water supply and sanitation”, “Water productivity”, “Water-related disasters”, “Water environment”, and “Water governance”, which together culminate into a Water Security Index (WSI). The tool is developed based on the water security assessment framework developed by Babel, Dang, Sharma, and Shinde (2015). WATSAT results in a quantitative assessment of water security in a city, wherein the WSI provides an overall picture of the water security situation in a city, while the evaluation of the various dimensions helps identify areas of concern. WATSAT aids city authorities in having a holistic understanding of water security and interconnections of various factors affecting it and assists them in informed decision-making to arrive at system-based interventions to tackle water security threats in the cities.

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Water Insecurity in Asian Cities

Cited by 14 publications

References 2 publications

A Multi‐Hazard Risk Framework to Stress‐Test Water Supply Systems to Climate‐Related Disruptions

A Multi‐Hazard Risk Framework to Stress‐Test Water Supply Systems to Climate‐Related Disruptions

Contextualizing Collaborative Planning: Addressing Water Resilience in the Urban Poor Settlements of Ranchi

How to measure urban water security? An introduction to the Water Security Assessment Tool (WATSAT)

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