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located 120 Km away to meet relying on a disposal-based
the water demand . Summer system of incineration
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months pose a major challenge or landfill to handle the
with increased water demand waste stream it results in
for cooling and scarce water higher economic costs and
availability, impacting the city environmental consequences.
residents mainly in informal Hence, there is a need to
settlements. Increased water plan a comprehensive waste
theft using boosters forces the management approach that
administration to cut off piped focuses on waste prevention
water supply and supply that encourages the redesign
water through tankers. of resource life cycles so that
all products are reused, with
During the assessment of the main aim of reducing
available water resources in waste volume reaching the
the urban area, it has been disposal system.
estimated that the city needs
to harness the potential of Cities need to inculcate
rainwater. With the average efficient solid waste
annual rainfall of 540mm management practices at the
concentrated in the monsoon neighbourhood and city level,
months, the rainwater can be as in the case of Vijayawada
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harvested to meet the annual Municipal Corporation .
demand of about 2 million city UN-Habitat assisted the city
residents. Which can further authorities to formulate draft
be enhanced by bringing Solid Waste Management and
down the water demand by Sanitation Byelaws, 2021 and
using ISI rated water-efficient conducted workshops for the
fixtures and using treated city residents to understand
grey water for flushing and the trends of solid waste
landscape. generated and propose
strategies for better waste
SOLID WASTE management. The residents
MANAGEMENT were distributed waste
Solid waste management collection bags to measure
is one of India’s biggest the average segregate dry and
challenges. With growing wet waste generated from the
cities, the quantity of solid household. Workshop for the
waste generated has increased rag pickers was conducted
manyfold with most cities to train them in segregating
11 City Profile and Diagnostics Report Jaipur, 2021,
sciap-publications/city-profile-and-diagnostic-report---jaipur making between government
12 City Profile and Diagnostics Report Vijayawada, 2021, https://www.unhabitat.
org.in/sciap-publications/city-profile-and-diagnostic-report---vijayawada agencies was formulated as
13 City Profile and Diagnostics Report Mysuru, 2021, https://www.unhabitat.org. a part of strategic response.
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dry waste for upcycling and
re-cycling. With the support
of city residents and local
administration, there has
been a significant reduction
in waste volume reaching
landfills.
GOVERNANCE AND
DATA MANAGEMENT
The difficulty of informed and
responsive urban planning is
exacerbated by unavailability
of data, which even if
available, are often out-dated,
unverified/ not validated.
Data are often not available/
collected at a granular level
(ward/neighbourhood) or
are inadequate to provide
analytical insights, which
are crucial for planning and
decision making. To facilitate
spatial planning, access to
timely, reliable, and relevant
spatial data is a prerequisite.
In case of Mysuru, without
key data sets, planning
decisions are limited and lack
fundamental and integrated
information. Also, the rapid
expansion of the city beyond
the city corporation boundary,
has also necessitated the
requirement of centralized
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data management systems .
So, a centralized data
management system that
is shared between various
administrative boundaries,
and relevant departments
https://www.unhabitat.org.in/ to streamline decision
Incorporating an open-