Climate Change Urban Water Supply Solutions Lessons Learned - Sustaining Urban Water Supply

In the New Urban Agenda, adopted in 2016 at the third It aspires to encourage regions, countries and cities to United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable prioritize investment in and the financing of sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) in Quito, Ecuador, long-term water supply management actions within the Member States committed to long-term urban and context of climate change i. [...] The publication reviews the effectiveness of in water and climate change in the SADC region include practical responses and solutions that are helping or the Climate Resilient Infrastructure Development Facility, could help these cities avert an imminent crisis of water the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy supply. [...] Urban resilience to climate change increases by: Resourcefulness: Capacity to mobilize various assets and resources in order to take action - including Strengthening infrastructural and ecological systems the ability to access financial and other assets, to reduce their fragility in the face of climate impacts including those of other agents and systems through and to reduce the risk of cascad. [...] Innovative 2.1.4 Primary motivation of the and stringent water demand management measures Bulawayo Case Study have been implemented and local institutions have The ability of a city to adapt and mitigate the vagaries of continually adapted to ensure the city remains resilient climate change and variability depends on several local to climate change. [...] resulted in the establishment of the first African township However, despite a decline in economic growth, there was in Bulawayo (Makokoba) to accommodate Africans an increase in the urban population as the war intensified and Indians who were working in the city centre and and people sought refuge in cities.