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India: Mumbai, Jaipur and Kolkata among 30 cities facing severe water risk by 2050

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Thirty Indian cities, including Jaipur, Amritsar, Kolkata, Mumbai, Kozhikode could dramatically face increased water risks unless urgent action is taken to mitigatre and adapt to climage change, a World Wide Fund (WWF) study says.

With water crises already plaguing many of the world's cities, the WWF's new water risk scenarios estimate that hundreds of millions of people in cities across the globe could be at anger.

According to the scenarios in the WWF Water RISK Filter, the 100 cities that are expected to suffer the greatest due to rise in water risk by 2050 are home to at least 350 million people, including national anf global economies.

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The Smart Cities initiative in India could offer an integrated urban water management framework combining urban planning, ecosystem restoration and wetland conservation for building future- ready, water smart and climate resilient cities.

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