With projects off the ground, the recently held summit focused on transportation, PPP, planning future cities, water and wastewater, IoT and energy.
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Tag: water management
The institutional mechanism to handle wastewater has failed
There are a variety of challenges in water and wastewater management. One of the major issues is that of the widening demand-supply gap in the water sector as well as treatment of wastewater.
3rd Smart Cities Summit 2016
It was a day-long event that witnessed participation from over 70 distinguished speakers and a high-powered, 50-member Smart Cities Trade Mission led by Bruce Andrews, Deputy Secretary, US Department of Commerce.
The precious undervalued commodity
More than 100 thousand cubic km of water falls on the face of our mother earth every year as precipitation, and this huge quantity will be, in a manner of speaking, adequate to meet everyone´s needs - but for the fact that some of it cannot be captured, and some of it falls where it is not needed.
SPML Infra to raise funds
SPML Infrastructure is evaluating options to raise funds by divesting stake in hydro power and road assets. It is also planning to raise up to Rs 1 billion through the QIP.
PPP and water management still don't jell
Private players have been shying away from PPP in water management due to lack of transparency in the system, longer gestation of return on investment and above all RoI is much lower compared to other infrastructure projects. With upsurge in economic activities and rapid growth in urbanisation, proper water management system has to be in place. According to a recent PwC report, almost 590 million people are expected to live in Indian cities by the year 2030.
Fulfilling today without compromising tomorrow
India's water situation has deteriorated alarmingly, so conventional measures to augment water levels are not enough. As the world moved this year closer to making water infrastructure a sustainable activity, India lags behind.