Case Study
A Flourishing Seaside Metropolis with Water Woes
With a growing metropolitan population of over 8 million people, Chennai is the fourth largest population center in India after Mumbai, Delhi, and Kolkata. Historically dependent upon limited water resources, the people of Chennai must pay high costs to transport water. Meanwhile, the lakes that supply the city’s water have been depleting over the last decade due to a rapidly growing population and dwindling seasonal rains. Chennai’s popula