Nationwide, it has been lauded as a city that has covered its back on water management. Yet a former chief engineer with BWSSB, the water and sewerage board of Bangalore, tells us that as much as 35 per cent of the city's water, about 870 million litres per day (mld), is unaccounted for, mainly through pipeline leakages. One can only hope that this and other startling truths, as revealed at the National Conference on Urban Water Management: Challenges and Options, organised in Bangalore in December by the Centre for Sustainable Development (CSD) and German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), can help our cities wake up and smell the water.

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