About the Project

Integrated Rural Urban Water Management for Climate Based Adaptations in Indian Cities (IAdapt) is a three year project supported by IDRC, Canada, that focuses on empowering cities to transition from traditional approaches of water management (which considers water supply, wastewater and storm water as separate entities to be planned, implemented and operated in silos) to an ‘Integrated Approach’ based on the principles of integrated water resource management (IWRM) and integrated urban water management (IUWM).

The primary objective is to institutionalize climate change adaptation measures by creating an enabling ecosystem in cities to adopt and implement IUWM approaches at a city level and IWRM approaches at catchment level guided by participatory catchment planning, simple decision support tools, catchment level action plans development and multipronged financing approaches for the plans.