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Addressing Water Scarcity in Tamilnadu: New Perspective

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This chapter discusses a few case studies of projects completed by Tamilnadu Water Investment Company (TWIC) to ameliorate water stress in the neighbourhood by implementing water reuse and seawater desalination system. This chapter also discusses how the public–private partnership helped to address the issue of water security as well as bring about major savings in cost and time.

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Natarajan, A. (2019). Addressing Water Scarcity in Tamilnadu: New Perspective. In: Pannirselvam, M., Shu, L., Griffin, G., Philip, L., Natarajan, A., Hussain, S. (eds) Water Scarcity and Ways to Reduce the Impact. Applied Environmental Science and Engineering for a Sustainable Future. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75199-3_10

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