Wastewater reuse has become an accepted practice i n cities and peri-urban areas. However\, in developing country settings\, w astewater reuse presents multiple challenges. First\, water treatment infra structure is limited\, implying that water reused may not meet the required water quality standards. Second\, food crops grown in peri-urban areas and irrigated with contaminated urban wastewater pose health risk. Third\, in water stressed cities\, demand for wastewater may result in competing claim s over it and lead to or aggravate conflicts between various users\, such a s urban residents and peri-urban farmers. I will draw upon research conduct ed in the water stressed city of Bangalore (also known as Bengaluru) in Ind ia and its peri-urban areas to illustrate these issues. In particular\, I w ill focus on how peri-urban agriculture in the region has changed over the last 20 years\, the role of urban wastewater and possible contestations aro und it.
The Liu Institute for Global Issues\, Institute for Resources \, Environment\, and Sustainability\, and the Centre for Sustainable Food S ystems welcome Bejoy K Thomas\, a social scientist\, and F ellow in the Water\, Land and Society programme at Ashoka Trust for Researc h in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE)\, Bangalore\, India. Bijou has a M asters in Economics (Cochin\, 2001) and a PhD in Development Studies (Tilbu rg\, 2009). He has a strong record of conducting problem driven research an d working in interdisciplinary teams along with environmental scientists an d engineers. His early work was on multidimensional poverty and participato ry development. He has recently been part of a large research initiative on water in urbanizing areas\, looking specifically at peri-urban areas and v illages around Bangalore.
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