Evaluating Impact of Sustainable Urbanism Practices: A Simulation Approach

A very effective traffic management strategy in metropolitan cities is the construction offlyovers that allow for convenient distribution of traffic while maintaining emission control.Observing the current scenario of depleting freshwater resources, the project aims towards asustainable urbanism approach involving the distribution of collected rainwater from flyovers to theunderground water table utilizing the preinstalled standard drainage systems. The study is carriedout in the metropolitan region of Hyderabad, Telangana, India using a groundwater simulationsoftware called MODFLOW to simulate factors like rainwater absorption, evapotranspiration,runoff and hydraulic head. The sole focus of this simulation is to assess the impact of such apractice in replenishing the underground water table.