This book aims at urban households, colonies and clusters and provides bottom-up resilience building options for augmenting urban services through conservation of local resources and waste recycling options. It provides solutions based on principles of conjunctive management of resources, demand focused end-use as well as subsidiary to increase autonomy at local scales. On the supply side, it offers solutions to increase the resource base through managing, conserving and recycling local resources, and on the demand side options for reducing usage of water and energy. Managing natural resources at local scales builds autonomy as well as resilience of the households and clusters. The technologies and processes discussed in this book can be applied in different urban contexts and scales. They provide options for formalizing the coping systems, build synergy with the city level systems and create opportunities for developing micro-enterprises centred on conservation and management of local resources and lifeline services. Half of the world’s population today lives in urban areas which account for more than three-fourths of the global economy. As the cities rapidly expand, centralized systems are unable to provide services. The households and other users are forced to develop variety of coping systems. These coping measures lead to over exploitation of groundwater, pollution of local resources, urban heat island effects that impact on health and quality of life. With the development of new technologies, household and colony level options exist for blending centralized and local services. Water Recycling offers micro and meso-scale options to develop more resources. By efficient utilization of local water and energy resources, shocks and stresses such as water scarcity, water logging, flooding and urban heat islands and power cuts can be mitigated to a great extent. By conserving local resources, households and communities can withstand the impacts of water and energy scarcity, commonly faced in the rapidly expanding cities. This initiative is supported by The Rockefeller Foundation through Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) programme. Under ACCCRN programme, several decentralize options were demonstrated. The demonstration projects included resource and community context analysis to develop options, demonstration of community-managed water and waste water recycling systems, restoration of degraded urban lakes, cool roofs and passive ventilation systems. The ACCCRN programme also provided opportunities to explore ward-level planning options to improve the resilience of communities.

1. The journey begins…

2. We're messin' up the Land

3. We're messin' up the Sea

4. We're messin' up the Air

5. Messin' up on you and me

6. India Urban Scenario
Water & Energy – A growing challenge
• Thousands of mini-wars over water, between cities,
states, and hinterlands (Bisalpur, Kaveri, Delhi etc…)
Scarcities, Wastage, and Disasters coexist
• Only 62% HHs have access to treated piped water
• Only 72% have water toilets, only 32% have piped sewers
• “It is expensive to be poor”
“Self supply” through Mini-water utilities by well off.
• >1 lakh recorded bore wells- Bangalore (200-1000 ft.)
• < 50% connected to piped supply
Waste management- “Other’s problem” attitude
Energy scarcity and power cuts affects, households and
livelihoods

7. It is “Municipality’s problem” attitude
Coping only delays crisis
Deepest borewell owner takes all >“Groundwater crisis”
Million septic tanks, lack of sewerage polluting
local sources (lakes aquifers)
People join hands after disasters, In scarcities, people fight.
Local resources wasted, augmenting from distant sources
Soft paths not explored
Failure of Common property management
Knowledge gaps
Invisible Underground challenges: Groundwater& pollution
“Uncertainties” in future climate
Reductionist approach to “urban metabolism” challenges
Root Causes
Khajrana Lake. Indore
Sewage pollution of Sacred Lake
As services degrade, “redundancy in abundancy” of coping measures

8. Poor and Slum dwellers
Rich will not allow us access to services
Don’t trust the system, they shift goal posts
It is better to informally connect to services
Can’t upgrade without land titles
Urban Local Bodies
Planning is ULB’s task
ULB should manage all services
ULB’s information is authentic
Strict control is required to manage city
Civil Society
Services should focus on poor
Information should be available to all
Participatory management is a must
ULBs insensitive to the people’s needs
Alternatives are needed to the current system
Private sector/Well off
Self supply is better since we can’t trust ULBs
Poor should be made to pay like others
If Subsidies are given, they should be for all..
Over extraction is other’s problem
Private sector can better manage urban
services
Group
Grid
Conflicting views on urban services

9. Addressed to households and the colonies
Explore “Inside-Out” options to address
Water, Energy and Sanitation challenges
How to address chronic stresses and shocks
Demand and supply improvement options
Technological & process issues addressed
Empowering communities to manage local resources
About the book

10. Summary of options

11. Options discussed

12. Salient features of options

13. Building Synergy across scales and sectors
Household and colony level
Micro-scale can achieve significant water & energy autonomy
Building partnership beyond gates and walls
Local resources as back up against grid failure
“Waste not Want not” attitude
City level
Less reliance on distant resources
Reconnect people with local resources
Decentralized recycling for local reuse
ULB’s role as Bulk supplier, monitoring and regulation body
( Ground/Rain?? water management authority)
Context
Tropical Monsoon region
Water bodies Aquifers & Sunshine: Untapped ecological assets
Household Colony
City

14. Artificial Floating Island to restore polluted lake, Indore
Community managed RO water supply, Indore
Conserve local resources for emergencies
Formalize coping mechanisms
Reconnect Communities to Resources
• Integrated water-energy-food systems at colony level
Real estate transformation an opportunity
Conservation profitable for all
• Real-estate prices
• Water bodies
• Attenuation of waterlogging/scarcity
• Universal Lifeline services access possible
From “Hierarchic” planning > “Clumsy solutions”
Smart households & Smart colonies can build better Smart cities
Managing Resources “Inside Out”

15. Solutions have to be inclusive to function
• Subsidies are not inclusive, but innovations often are.
• Need to be attractive to Poor, Civil society, ULBs and also Private sector
Subsidiarity, the key to future
• Colony level “Single point” energy connections (Haryana, Punjab)
• Rural water supply based on “Single point connection” to settlement
• Why not urban water?
Formalizing the coping systems necessary
• Empowering communities to manage Local resources
• Enabling environment for Micro enterprises to create green jobs
Options for 21st Century Urban Management

16. Benefits of Inside-Out approaches to Stakeholders
Group
Grid
Primary aim of book is better quality of life through improving
Comfort, Convenience and Resource security to
Common man

17. Benefits of Inside-Out approaches to Stakeholders
Poor & Slum dwellers
Green jobs
Better Health, Higher DALY
Better education for children
Higher house value
Better living environment
Urban Local Bodies
Carbon saving and associated
benefits
Less need for augmentation
< Government, > Governance
Smarter Cities
Less emergencies
Civil Society
Better environment
Higher social cohesion
Action opportunities
Private Sector
Scope for innovation
Micro-enterprise opportunities
Better quality of life
Group
Grid

18. Common man
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19. And the Journey continues……

20. And the Journey will continue……
The journey begins…