City of 1000 Tanks and Water as Leverage Team in the City of 1000 Tanks Water Balance Pilot, T.Nagar Chennai.
The City of 1,000 Tanks team brings together experts from the fields of urban design, water management, social and cultural engagement, policy and finance to create inclusive and robust solutions. The team is led by OOZE architects & urbanists in collaboration with Madras Terrace Architectural Works, IIT Madras, Care Earth Trust, Eco Village International, Capability Landscape, IRCDUC, Urayugal Social Welfare Trust, Rain Center, Goethe-Institut Chennai, Chennai Resilience Centre, Paperman Foundation, TU Delft, IHE Delft, HKV Consultants, Professor T. Swaminathan and Ramakrishnan Venkatesh. The programme has been spearheaded as part of Water as Leverage for Resilient Cities Asia, an initiative by the Special Envoy for International Water Affairs of the Kingdom of The Netherlands and the and the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), in close collaboration with the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) and 100 Resilient Cities (100RC). The initiative also partners with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the Dutch Development Bank (FMO), the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR), Architecture Workroom Brussels, the Global Center on Adaptation and UN-Habitat, supported by the UN/World Bank High Level Panel on Water.
“We must take a multidisciplinary view of water. We require professionals from disciplines other than just engineering and hydrogeology. We need to adopt the participatory approach to water management that has been successfully tried all over the world.”
-Mihir Shah, Indian economist and former member of the Planning Commission of India. The Hindu, August 19, 2016.
Partners:
Eva Pfannes
Sylvain Hartenberg
Team:
Jesse Honsa, Nilofer Tajuddin, Kate Unsworth, Hsoc Mathai George
Dr. Balaji Narasimhan, Dr. Indumathi Nambi, Prof. Swaminathan (Retired)
Michael Shaw
Gilles Boulicot
Dr. A.D. Nundiyny
R Krishna Mohan
Arul Narayanasamy
Shreekant Jha
