India needs a national wastewater reuse policy to help address the “perennial concern” of urban water stress by mandating targets and laying out legislative, regulatory and financial measures to hit those targets, PwC said in a report. The report, “Closing the water loop: Reuse of treated wastewater in urban India” released by the global consulting firm on Tuesday, underscores the need for a comprehensive national policy. The suggestion for such a policy comes against the backdrop of the PwC report highlighting “water stress to be a perennial concern’’ in most Indian cities. “This rapid urban growth will be linked with higher industrial output and greater energy demand thus adding to the urban water stress,’’ the report’s authors wrote. Historically, infrastructure development in the water sector had been fully funded by the Central Government.

Source: The Hindu September 20, 2016 20:26 UTC