Dakka water storage project working group

What is integrated water storage planning?

The proposed integrated water storage planning framework is grounded in sustainable development and climate resilience, with the potential to pay dividends for people, economies, and environments for generations. Key Messages:

What is the future of water storage?

What the Future Has in Store: A New Paradigm for Water Storage calls for developing and driving multi-sectoral solutions to the water storage gap, taking approaches that integrate needs and opportunities across the whole system, including natural, built, and hybrid storage, to support many instead of few, for generations to come.

Why is there a global water storage gap?

Just as world populations need more storage, the volume of freshwater storage is in decline, creating an international crisis: a global water storage gap. • Over the last 50 years, the global population has doubled, generating a constantly increasing demand for water and commensurate water storage.

What is the water storage gap?

• Globally, the water storage gap—the difference between the amount of water storage needed and the amount of operational storage (natural and built) that exists for a given time and place—is growing (GWP and IWMI, 2021).

Are Dhaka pits a reservoir?

Investigations proved that these depressions, locally known as dhaka pits, share formalised properties (size, edges, depth), collected water and functioned as sizable reservoirs for the inhabitants of the Hill Complex. ALS detected the presence of such features elsewhere across the site and, significantly, in the surrounding landscapes.

Is water storage a siloed facility?

Most often, water storage is evaluated, designed, developed, and managed as independent facilities for specific stakeholders, resulting in siloed arrangements that are unsustainable and inefficient. • Poor planning of water storage comes with a price.