{"id":507817,"date":"2022-11-08T12:20:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T09:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/cities-under-strain-indias-predicted-urban-boom\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T12:20:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T09:20:02","slug":"cities-under-strain-indias-predicted-urban-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cities-under-strain-indias-predicted-urban-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"#Cities under strain: India&#8217;s predicted urban boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a407468185ce\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a407468185ce\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cities-under-strain-indias-predicted-urban-boom\/#%E2%80%9CCities_under_strain_Indias_predicted_urban_boom%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Cities under strain: India&#8217;s predicted urban boom&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CCities_under_strain_Indias_predicted_urban_boom%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Cities under strain: India&#8217;s predicted urban boom&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2022\/mumbai-one-of-indias-b.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/2022\/mumbai-one-of-indias-b.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Mumbai, one of India's biggest cities, grew by about eight million people in the past 30 years -- equivalent to the entirety of New York City's population.\">\n<figure class=\"article-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2022\/mumbai-one-of-indias-b.jpg\" alt=\"Mumbai, one of India's biggest cities, grew by about eight million people in the past 30 years -- equivalent to the entirety of \" title=\"Mumbai, one of India's biggest cities, grew by about eight million people in the past 30 years -- equivalent to the entirety of New York City's population.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-darken text-low-up text-truncate-js text-truncate mt-3\">\n                Mumbai, one of India&#8217;s biggest cities, grew by about eight million people in the past 30 years &#8212; equivalent to the entirety of New York City&#8217;s population.<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>India is projected to see an explosion in its urban population in the coming decades, but its cities already cannot cope and climate change will make living conditions harsher still.<\/p>\n<section class=\"article-banner first-banner ads-336x280\"><!-- \/4988204\/Phys_Story_InText_Box --><br \/>\n      <\/section>\n<p>The metropolis of Mumbai, one of India&#8217;s biggest, grew by some eight million people in the past 30 years\u2014the rough equivalent of the whole of New York City\u2014to a population of 20 million, and is forecast to add another seven million by 2035.<\/p>\n<p>Like other Indian megacities, Mumbai&#8217;s housing, transport, water and waste management infrastructure has not kept pace, with around 40 percent of people living in slums.<\/p>\n<p>These crowded collections of ramshackle buildings, side by side with some of India&#8217;s richest neighbourhoods, often have no regular water, power supply or proper sanitation.<\/p>\n<p>As the world&#8217;s population <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roaches eight billion, most of them in the developing world, it is a situation replicated globally.<\/p>\n<p>Those living on the outskirts of Mumbai commute for hours to work, with many hanging out of doors on packed trains, and others <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>ling by car or motorbike on clogged, pothole-filled roads that flood during the monsoon.<\/p>\n<p>In the biggest slum, Dharavi of &#8220;Slumdog Millionaire&#8221; fame, where a million people live, Mohammed Sartaj Khan arrived from rural Uttar Pradesh as a teenager and works in a tannery.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2022\/a-worker-bathes-outsid.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/2022\/a-worker-bathes-outsid.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"A worker bathes outside a factory in the Dharavi slums of Mumbai, where water and waste management infrastructure have not kept pace with growth.\">\n<figure class=\"article-img text-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2022\/a-worker-bathes-outsid.jpg\" alt=\"A worker bathes outside a factory in the Dharavi slums of Mumbai, where water and waste management infrastructure have not kept \" title=\"A worker bathes outside a factory in the Dharavi slums of Mumbai, where water and waste management infrastructure have not kept pace with growth.\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-left text-darken text-truncate text-low-up mt-3\">\n                A worker bathes outside a factory in the Dharavi slums of Mumbai, where water and waste management infrastructure have not kept pace with growth.<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;My childhood was wonderful in the village. It has a peaceful environment unlike the crowd here,&#8221; Khan, now 35, told AFP in Dharavi&#8217;s warren of lanes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I came here, I saw people running like ants,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The way ants keep walking in their lanes despite the crowd&#8230; Nobody cares about others.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But in his village, he added, &#8220;people don&#8217;t have money&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>At first, he earned 6,000 rupees ($70) a month in Mumbai but now operates a machine and makes four times that, most of which he sends back to his wife and children\u2014whom he can seldom afford to visit.<\/p>\n<p><b>Premature deaths<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The UN projects that India&#8217;s population will rise from its current 1.4 billion to overtake China&#8217;s and peak at 1.7 billion in the 2060s, before dropping back to 1.5 billion by the start of the next century.<\/p>\n<p>By 2040, 270 million more people will live in Indian cities, according to the International Energy Agency, driving carbon emissions higher from power generation and transport, and from the production of steel and concrete to house them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2022\/india-is-projected-to.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/2022\/india-is-projected-to.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"India is projected to see an explosion in its urban population in the coming decades.\">\n<figure class=\"article-img text-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2022\/india-is-projected-to.jpg\" alt=\"India is projected to see an explosion in its urban population in the coming decades\" title=\"India is projected to see an explosion in its urban population in the coming decades.\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-left text-darken text-truncate text-low-up mt-3\">\n                India is projected to see an explosion in its urban population in the coming decades.<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Overcrowding, shoddy infrastructure and severe air, water and noise pollution are part of everyday life in India&#8217;s megacities.<\/p>\n<p>About 70 percent of the billions of litres of sewage produced in urban centres every day goes untreated, a government report said last year.<\/p>\n<p>Every winter, the capital New Delhi, home to 20 million people, is cloaked in toxic air pollution that, according to one Lancet study, caused almost 17,500 premature deaths in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><b>Droughts and floods<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Millions of people in Indian cities have no regular running water and rely on deliveries by truck or train. <\/p>\n<p>People in Delhi and elsewhere are digging ever-deeper wells as groundwater levels sink.<\/p>\n<p>Chennai in southeastern India ran out of water in the summer of 2019, a crisis blamed on both insufficient rains and urban sprawl onto former wetlands.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2022\/children-in-mumbais-dh.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/2022\/children-in-mumbais-dh.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Children in Mumbai's Dharavi slums climb onto a window to catch a glimpse of a promotional event for a cartoon channel.\">\n<figure class=\"article-img text-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2022\/children-in-mumbais-dh.jpg\" alt=\"Children in Mumbai's Dharavi slums climb onto a window to catch a glimpse of a promotional event for a cartoon channel\" title=\"Children in Mumbai's Dharavi slums climb onto a window to catch a glimpse of a promotional event for a cartoon channel.\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-left text-darken text-truncate text-low-up mt-3\">\n                Children in Mumbai&#8217;s Dharavi slums climb onto a window to catch a glimpse of a promotional event for a cartoon channel.<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>At the same time, urban flooding is increasingly frequent.<\/p>\n<p>The tech hub of Bengaluru\u2014formerly Bangalore\u2014has some of India&#8217;s worst traffic congestion and saw inundations in September blamed on unauthorised construction.<\/p>\n<p>Natural catastrophes are forecast to cause more and more misery for India&#8217;s cities as the planet&#8217;s climate warms and makes weather more volatile.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists believe the annual monsoon rainy season is becoming more erratic and more powerful, causing more flooding and also more droughts.<\/p>\n<p>Rising temperatures are making Indian summers ever more scorching, particularly in urban areas full of concrete trapping the heat. This year, India saw its hottest March on record.<\/p>\n<p>And while COVID-19 did not affect India&#8217;s slums as badly as some had feared, overcrowding puts them at risk in future epidemics.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2022\/some-experts-believe-m.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/2022\/some-experts-believe-m.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Some experts believe more investment in India's rural economy could stem migration to already packed cities.\">\n<figure class=\"article-img text-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2022\/some-experts-believe-m.jpg\" alt=\"Some experts believe more investment in India's rural economy could stem migration to already packed cities\" title=\"Some experts believe more investment in India's rural economy could stem migration to already packed cities.\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-left text-darken text-truncate text-low-up mt-3\">\n                Some experts believe more investment in India&#8217;s rural economy could stem migration to already packed cities.<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Poonam Muttreja from the Population Foundation of India said more investment in the rural economy could stem migration to cities, while new incentives could encourage people to move to smaller urban centres.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Poor people, especially migrants in cities, are at the worst risk of climate change, whether it is the changes in the weather or flooding, jobs, lack of infrastructure,&#8221; Muttreja told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;India has to have a paradigm shift. 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