Urban Catastrophes: Water Sanitation Dimension

This paper is about the future of water and sanitation stress (Wat/San) in urban slums and how such stress is likely to exacerbate other humanitarian crises over time. It is intended to explore the interlinkages between different crisis variables from a futures perspective, i. e. , how current trends may evolve to producing surprising new outcomes.
The rapid growth in urban population around the world has led to a proliferation of urban slums in many developing world cities. UN HABITAT estimates that by 2050, over 5 billion people will be living in cities, with an average of 30% living in slums. The majority of slums lack access sufficient water and adequate sanitation.
This report was written by Dr Karen Hudson-Edwards of the Birkbeck School of Earth Sciences, University College London and Noah Raford, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Humanitarian Futures Programme, King's College London. This paper is about the future of water and sanitation stress (Wat/San) in urban slums and how such stress is likely to exacerbate other humanitarian crises over time. It is intended to explore the interlinkages between different crisis variables from a futures perspective, i. e. , how current trends may evolve to producing surprising new outcomes.
The rapid growth in urban population around the world has led to a proliferation of urban slums in many developing world cities. UN HABITAT estimates that by 2050, over 5 billion people will be living in cities, with an average of 30% living in slums. The majority of slums lack access sufficient water and adequate sanitation.
This report was written by Dr Karen Hudson-Edwards of the Birkbeck School of Earth Sciences, University College London and Noah Raford, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Humanitarian Futures Programme, King's College London. This paper is about the future of water and sanitation stress (Wat/San) in urban slums and how such stress is likely to exacerbate other humanitarian crises over time. It is intended to explore the interlinkages between different crisis variables from a futures perspective, i. e. , how current trends may evolve to producing surprising new outcomes.
The rapid growth in urban population around the world has led to a proliferation of urban slums in many developing world cities. UN HABITAT estimates that by 2050, over 5 billion people will be living in cities, with an average of 30% living in slums. The majority of slums lack access sufficient water and adequate sanitation.
This report was written by Dr Karen Hudson-Edwards of the Birkbeck School of Earth Sciences, University College London and Noah Raford, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Humanitarian Futures Programme, King's College London. This paper is about the future of water and sanitation stress (Wat/San) in urban slums and how such stress is likely to exacerbate other humanitarian crises over time. It is intended to explore the interlinkages between different crisis variables from a futures perspective, i. e. , how current trends may evolve to producing surprising new outcomes.
The rapid growth in urban population around the world has led to a proliferation of urban slums in many developing world cities. UN HABITAT estimates that by 2050, over 5 billion people will be living in cities, with an average of 30% living in slums. The majority of slums lack access sufficient water and adequate sanitation.
This report was written by Dr Karen Hudson-Edwards of the Birkbeck School of Earth Sciences, University College London and Noah Raford, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Humanitarian Futures Programme, King's College London. This paper is about the future of water and sanitation stress (Wat/San) in urban slums and how such stress is likely to exacerbate other humanitarian crises over time. It is intended to explore the interlinkages between different crisis variables from a futures perspective, i. e. , how current trends may evolve to producing surprising new outcomes.
The rapid growth in urban population around the world has led to a proliferation of urban slums in many developing world cities. UN HABITAT estimates that by 2050, over 5 billion people will be living in cities, with an average of 30% living in slums. The majority of slums lack access sufficient water and adequate sanitation.
This report was written by Dr Karen Hudson-Edwards of the Birkbeck School of Earth Sciences, University College London and Noah Raford, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Humanitarian Futures Programme, King's College London. This paper is about the future of water and sanitation stress (Wat/San) in urban slums and how such stress is likely to exacerbate other humanitarian crises over time. It is intended to explore the interlinkages between different crisis variables from a futures perspective, i. e. , how current trends may evolve to producing surprising new outcomes.
The rapid growth in urban population around the world has led to a proliferation of urban slums in many developing world cities. UN HABITAT estimates that by 2050, over 5 billion people will be living in cities, with an average of 30% living in slums. The majority of slums lack access sufficient water and adequate sanitation.
This report was written by Dr Karen Hudson-Edwards of the Birkbeck School of Earth Sciences, University College London and Noah Raford, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Humanitarian Futures Programme, King's College London.