Living with the undesirable consequences of urban flooding – soiled home furnishings, widespread traffic delays, economic disruption, and even casualties – is an everyday reality for Metro Manila’s nearly seventeen million residents. Urban floods annually affect more than three million Manileños, killing more than 600 and billing over $160 million […]
Located in Southern India, Bangalore is the capital city of the state of Karnataka. The city’s population has seen rapid growth in the recent decades. India’s 2011 Census registered 8.5 million people, which at the time was a million more residents than the local water authority was planning for. A […]
Ulaanbaatar Basics Ulaanbaatar, or UB, is the capital of Mongolia, an Asian country landlocked between China and Russia. The city originated as a monastic center for Buddhist monks in the 17th century. Currently, the city has a population of ~1.4 million people, representing approximately half of the country’s total population. […]
Home to a population of 7.49 million residents, Hong Kong is faced with the pressure to accommodate for increasing water demands amidst problems of freshwater scarcity. The interesting thing is, Hong Kong is not landlocked; it is located next to the China Sea, and has the proximity and access to […]
Background Beijing, the capital of China, is located in the alluvial plain on the northwestern North China Plain, covering an area of 6,490 square miles. It is traditionally lack of surface water collection yet relatively rich in underground water. Beijing has experienced rapid urbanization in recent years and it is […]
Amman is a dry city that sits at the nexus of several severe water challenges. It is currently facing a shortfall in sustainable supply to meet demand and expects demand to rise with population growth. It also struggles with infrequent piped supplies which have led residents to resort to other, […]