Sustainable urban water supply in south India: Desalination, efficiency improvement, or rainwater harvesting?

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Srinivasan, Veena ^a   Gorelick, Steven M ^a   Goulder, Lawrence ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER RECHARGE; DECENTRALIZED POLICIES; EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT; FINANCIAL VIABILITY; GROUNDWATER EXTRACTION; LEAKAGE RATES; MEGACITIES; MODEL RESULTS; PRIVATE WELLS; RAIN WATER HARVESTING; REVENUE GENERATION; SIMULATION MODEL; SOUTH INDIA; SUPPLY AND DEMAND; URBAN WATER SUPPLY; WATER SUPPLY PROBLEMS;

AQUIFERS; DESALINATION; ECONOMICS; EFFICIENCY; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HARVESTING; RECHARGING (UNDERGROUND WATERS); WATER FILTRATION; WATER SUPPLY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

DESALINATION; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; FINANCIAL SYSTEM; GROUNDWATER ABSTRACTION; LEAKAGE; MEGACITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PIPE; POLICY STRATEGY; POPULATION GROWTH; RECHARGE; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN DRAINAGE; WATER SUPPLY; WELL WATER;

CHENNAI; INDIA; TAMIL NADU;

EID: 77953669581     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008698     Document Type: Article

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