Overview The blog explores Tianjin’s comprehensive water management approach, detailing its water supply systems, infrastructure, and pricing mechanisms. The city faces complex water challenges with climate change, including water scarcity, pluvial flooding, land subsidence, and water pollution. Historically reliant on rivers like the Haihe and now dependent on large-scale water […]
Kolkata is India’s third largest city, located in the broader region of coastal Bengal along one of the key tributaries of the Ganges, the Hooghly River. Freshwater sources are abundant in the city’s immediate surroundings. The Hooghly itself forms the city’s Western boundary, running along its entire length. On the […]
Abstract Sendai – A City at Risk Sendai, a bustling metropolis nestled along Japan’s picturesque coastline, is a city intimately acquainted with the capricious nature of its environment. Earthquakes, tsunamis, and floods are recurring threats, leaving an indelible mark on the city’s history and infrastructure. The Great East Japan Earthquake […]
Introduction Jabalpur, a growing and urbanizing city in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, has been grappling with critical challenges related to its water supply since the early 2000s. It has an estimated population of 1.5 million, which is expected to grow close to 2 million in the next […]
Background Kathmandu, the capital city of Nepal, is home to 1.4 million residents. Nepal is a small country in South Asia surrounded by the Himalayas and it has approximately 2.7 percent of the world’s fresh water resources. Nepal has one of the highest water availability per capita in the world, […]
The historic city of Hamedan is the capital of the central-western province of Hamedan in Iran. Once home to ancient philosophers and physicians, today the city of just under 600,000 is a center for tourism and agriculture, struggling to deal with a growing issue of water scarcity.1,2 Like many cities […]
Background Ürümqi is the capital city of the Xinjiang Province located in the northwest part of China. It holds the title for being the world’s farthest metropolis from the ocean, and it has a semi-arid climate characterized by cold and dry winters and hot and dry summers. It is a […]
Badung Regency, located on the island of Bali in Indonesia, has a tropical climate and is warm and humid year-round. Badung experiences two distinct main seasons: dry season (April to October) and rainy season (November to March). Despite being historically known for its agricultural industry, the island of Bali has […]
There is a very romantic yet tragic notion associated with the fertile crescent in that the awakening of the crescent’s early civilizations indicates the beginnings of environmental mastery in the process of domestication and settlement. This can be for better or worse, but it is up to the individual to […]
When we think of the city of Shenzhen, it is the epitome and symbol of China’s opening up to the outside world, it has created a miracle in the history of industrialization, modernization and urbanization development in the world, and it always ventures to lead the world. After forty-year high-speed […]