This article offers an inventory of the risk of potential hazards to water resources and its implications to human and ecological receptors that may result from the climate change with special reference to India, a developing country.

This article offers an inventory of the risk of potential hazards to water resources and its implications to human and ecological receptors that may result from the climate change with special reference to India, a developing country.

Urbanization has a dynamic relationship with the physical environment. Urban and rural environments differ substantially in their microclimate. These climatic differences are primarily caused by the alteration on the surface of earth by human constructions and the release of artificially created energy into the environment. Inadvertent climate changes induced by urbanization are well documented.