3 of every 5 very high water risk cities in India: WWF

In 1961, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) was founded as an international non-governmental organization to work in collaboration with existing conservation groups and bring substantial financial support to the conservation movement on a worldwide scale.
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) was one of the pioneers to form this organisation.
Today it works in the 6 major fields of climate, Food, Forests, Freshwater, Oceans and Wildlife.

Launched in 2012, the Water Risk Filter is a practical online tool that helps companies and investors assess and respond to water-related risks facing their operations and investments across the globe.
Developed by WWF and the German finance institution DEG, the Water Risk Filter has become a leading and trusted source of water risk data for thousands of users – from multinational corporations and SMEs to financial institutions – which have used it to evaluate hundreds of thousands of specific sites.
The Water Risk Filter provides scenarios of water risks for 2030 and 2050, integrating climate and socio-economic changes in three different pathways.

According to the study done by Water Risk Filter, India faces the second highest basin risk in the world, only better than Palestine.
Jaipur topped the list of Indian cities, followed by Indore and Thane. Mumbai, Kolkata and Delhi also featured on the list.
The study points out that the 100 cities worldwide are expected to suffer the greatest rise in water risk by 2050 are home to at least 350 million people as well as nationally and globally important economies.
WWF has suggested that if the cities have to break away from the current vicious loop of flooding and water scarcity, nature-based solutions like restoration of urban watersheds and wetlands could offer solutions.
The urban bodies must use initiatives like Smart Cities initiative and should learn from projects such as wetland restoration projects of Bashettihalli wetland in Bengaluru and the Sirpur Lake in Indore.

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