UI4051-DRP000212

Faculty: Anil kumar Roy

Water security for urban resilience: Analyzing access and accessibility for achieving the SDG 3 and 6

Water security has emerged as a major concern of urban and environmental governance across the globe. Water scarcity, aging or inadequate infrastructure, population growth, pollution, more intense and more frequent storms, droughts, and floods—all these pressures are converging to lend urgency to the need to increase global investment in water infrastructures and to develop smart water conservation and management solutions (UNESCO, 2019). The secure and safe water supply increases the possibility of achieving the sustainable urban future through localizing the goas of SDG 3 and 6 respectively for good health and wellbeing and clean water and sanitation. This is possible through larger local and sub-national and national level investment in water and sanitation infrastructure