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The role of larger reservoirs for sustainable water supplies in large Indian cities [1]

Urban water demand is rapidly growing in India due to high growth in urban population and rapid industrialization. Meeting this demand is a big challenge for the urban planners in India. Incidentally, the large urban areas are experiencing faster growth in population, and most of them are in arid and semi arid regions, which are naturally water-scarce.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2008
Sacchidananda Mukherjee [2], Zankhana Shah [3], M. Dinesh Kumar [4]
Urban India [5]
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Water Management [6], Water Demand [7], Urban Water Supply [8], Reservoirs [9], Water Supply [10], India [11], Statistics [12]
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