Description: The Water4Change research programme addresses the complex challenges to urban water systems faced by fast-growing cities in India. India is a country which is rapidly growing into urban agglomerations showing infrastructure deficits and adaptation gaps in relation to current and future climatic, societal and economic change. The programme embraces water as a basic necessity for life that is both an agent and catalyst of positive transformative changes that are needed to pro-actively deal with and respond to these challenges. To facilitate long-term sustainability and resilience of urban water systems, the programme will co-create and mainstream an integrative, fit-for-purpose and adaptive water sensitive design framework in close collaboration with stakeholders in three Indian cities. The framework will be developed by synergistically connecting four realms – governance, built and natural environment, technology and infrastructure design and societal behaviours – for the delivery of transformative change.
Partners: Dutch Partners: Delft University of Technology, Erasmus University (DRIFT), University of Twente, IHE Delft Institute for Water Technology, Deltares, IRC Wash. Indian Partners: Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IITR), Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITG), Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT), CEPT University Ahmedabad, Centre for Water Resources Development and Management (CWRDM) Calicut
Sponsor: NWO & DST
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