Water-Wise Cities and Sustainable Water Systems : : Concepts, Technologies, and Applications.

Water-Wise Cities and Sustainable Water Systems : : Concepts, Technologies, and Applications.

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Wang, Xiaochang C.
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Fu, Guangtao.
Place / Publishing House:London : : IWA Publishing,, 2021.
Ã2021.
Year of Publication:2021
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (474 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • About the Editors
  • Part I: Water Management Concepts and Principles
  • Chapter 1: Pathways towards sustainable and resilient urban water systems
  • 1.1 INTRODUCTION
  • 1.2 THE EVOLUTION OF URBAN WATER SYSTEMS
  • 1.3 PATHWAYS TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE WATER SYSTEMS
  • 1.3.1 Decentralisation
  • 1.3.2 Greening
  • 1.3.3 Circular economy
  • 1.3.3.1 The linear model
  • 1.3.3.2 The circular economy model
  • 1.3.4 Digitalisation
  • 1.4 A NEW PARADIGM TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE WATER MANAGEMENT
  • 1.4.1 Performance measures
  • 1.4.2 Intervention framework
  • 1.4.2.1 Four types of intervention
  • 1.4.2.2 Analysis approaches
  • 1.5 CONCLUSIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • REFERENCES
  • Chapter 2: Water-wise cities and sustainable water systems: Current problems and challenges
  • 2.1 INTRODUCTION
  • 2.2 FACTS OF OUR LIVING CONDITIONS ON THE EARTH
  • 2.2.1 Population and cities
  • 2.2.2 Available water resources
  • 2.2.3 Imbalanced resource provision and consumption - biocapacity and ecological footprint as indicators
  • 2.3 URBAN WATER SYSTEMS: HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT
  • 2.3.1 Water and human settlements
  • 2.3.2 Pre-modern urban water systems
  • 2.3.3 Modern urban water systems
  • 2.3.3.1 Needs for drinking water purification
  • 2.3.3.2 Needs for wastewater treatment
  • 2.3.3.3 Needs for urban watershed management and aquatic system conservation
  • 2.4 INTERNATIONAL ACTIONS FOR BUILDING WATER WISE CITIES
  • 2.4.1 Cities of the future program implemented by the International Water Association
  • 2.4.2 The IWA principles for water-wise cities
  • 2.4.2.1 The five building blocks
  • 2.4.2.1.1 Vision
  • 2.4.2.1.2 Governance
  • 2.4.2.1.3 Knowledge and capacities
  • 2.4.2.1.4 Planning tools
  • 2.4.2.1.5 Implementation tools
  • 2.4.2.2 The four levels of actions
  • 2.4.2.2.1 Level 1 - Regenerative water services.
  • 2.4.2.2.2 Level 2 - Water sensitive urban design
  • 2.4.2.2.3 Level 3 - Basin connected cities
  • 2.4.2.2.4 Level 4 - Water-wise communities
  • 2.4.3 Envisaged solutions
  • 2.4.3.1 Systematic solutions
  • 2.4.3.2 Water shortage and flood control countermeasures
  • 2.4.3.3 Pollution control countermeasures
  • 2.4.3.4 Countermeasures to enhance liveability
  • 2.4.3.5 Human resources and capacity guarantee
  • REFERENCES
  • Chapter 3: Chinese version of water-wise cities: Sponge City initiative
  • 3.1 INTRODUCTION
  • 3.2 PROBLEMS TO SOLVE
  • 3.3 CONVENTIONAL SOLUTIONS: GRAY ENGINEERING MEASURES
  • 3.3.1 Urban water system 1.0
  • 3.3.2 Urban water system 2.0
  • 3.4 TOWARDS A MULTI-PURPOSEWATER-WISE SYSTEM: SPONGE CITY
  • 3.4.1 Urban water system 3.0 as a new approach
  • 3.4.1.1 Sustainable water services
  • 3.4.1.2 Improvement of overall environmental quality, resilience, and liveability in urban areas
  • 3.4.1.3 Water-wise communities
  • 3.4.1.4 Reviving water culture
  • 3.4.2 Main functional elements of the water system 3.0
  • 3.4.2.1 Sponge infrastructure
  • 3.4.2.2 Decentralized sewage system
  • 3.4.2.3 Fit-for-purpose water supply system
  • 3.4.2.4 Near-natural ecological zones
  • 3.4.2.5 Intelligent water management system
  • 3.5 FUTURE PERSPECTIVES
  • 3.5.1 Enhancing system monitoring and evaluation and promoting multi-channel cooperation management
  • 3.5.2 Developing decision support tools for sustainable implementation of sponge city
  • 3.5.3 Valuing Sponge City ecosystem services
  • 3.5.4 Developing local guidelines and standards for Sponge City implementation
  • 3.5.5 Promoting Sponge City construction in watershed-scales based on data and information sharing
  • REFERENCES
  • Chapter 4: US version of water-wise cities: Low impact development
  • 4.1 INTRODUCTION TO REGULATORY HISTORY
  • 4.2 A SHIFT IN STORMWATER MANAGEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES.
  • 4.2.1 Pollution prevention, source control, and public education
  • 4.2.2 Volume reduction
  • 4.2.3 Pollution retention by soil and potential for soil and groundwater contamination
  • 4.2.3.1 Nutrients
  • 4.2.3.2 Metals
  • 4.2.3.3 Suspended solids
  • 4.2.3.4 Organic compounds
  • 4.2.3.5 Pathogens
  • 4.2.3.6 Chloride
  • 4.2.4 Summary of groundwater contamination due to stormwater infiltration
  • 4.3 LID APPLICATIONS
  • 4.3.1 Combined sewer overflows
  • 4.3.2 Eutrophication in fresh surface water bodies
  • 4.3.3 Hypoxia in coastal waters
  • 4.3.4 Climate change adaptation
  • 4.3.5 Selection of an LID practice
  • 4.4 TECHNOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF LOW IMPACT DEVELOPMENT PRACTICES
  • 4.4.1 Common practices
  • 4.4.1.1 Infiltration basins, trenches, and chambers
  • 4.4.1.2 Permeable pavements
  • 4.4.1.3 Bioretention
  • 4.4.1.4 Swales and roadside ditches
  • 4.4.1.5 Green roofs
  • 4.4.1.6 Rainwater harvesting
  • 4.4.1.7 Maintenance and pre-treatment
  • 4.4.1.7.1 Maintenance
  • 4.4.1.7.2 Why pre-treatment
  • 4.4.1.7.3 Commercial products
  • 4.4.2 Emerging LID practices
  • 4.4.2.1 Enhanced media
  • 4.4.2.1.1 Iron
  • 4.4.2.1.2 Aluminum oxide
  • 4.4.2.1.3 Water treatment residuals
  • 4.4.2.1.4 Activated carbon and biochar
  • 4.4.2.2 Floating islands
  • 4.4.2.3 Rain gardens for nitrogen removal
  • 4.4.3 Future perspectives
  • 4.4.3.1 Climate change
  • 4.4.3.2 Combined sewer overflows
  • 4.4.3.3 Dynamic design
  • 4.4.3.4 Advances in enhanced media
  • 4.4.3.5 Source reduction
  • REFERENCES
  • Chapter 5: Australian case of water sensitive city and its adaptation in China
  • 5.1 INTRODUCTION
  • 5.2 CASE STUDY 1: MONASH CARPARK STORMWATER TREATMENT SYSTEMS
  • 5.2.1 A treatment train that provides both pollution management and landscape value
  • 5.2.2 Key components of the treatment train
  • 5.2.2.1 Rainwater tank
  • 5.2.2.2 Sedimentation tank.
  • 5.2.2.3 Stormwater biofilters
  • 5.2.2.3.1 A popular WSUD technology for stormwater treatment
  • 5.2.2.3.2 A base of scientific research
  • 5.2.2.3.3 Recreational stormwater ponds
  • 5.3 CASE STUDY 2: HOW THIS WAS APPLIED OUTSIDE OF AUSTRALIA
  • 5.3.1 Introduction of EastHigh stormwater treatment systems
  • 5.3.2 Landscaping
  • 5.3.3 Local tailoring research
  • 5.3.4 The main parts of the biofilter
  • 5.3.4.1 Inflow pit
  • 5.3.4.2 Media
  • 5.3.4.3 Plants
  • 5.3.4.4 Outflow
  • 5.3.4.5 Monitoring
  • 5.3.4.6 Outflow pollutant concentration
  • 5.4 SUMMARY
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
  • REFERENCES
  • Part II: New Paradigm of Systems Thinking and Technology Advances
  • Chapter 6: Water cycle management for building water-wise cities
  • 6.1 INTRODUCTION
  • 6.2 THINGS TO LEARN FROM THE NATURAL HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE
  • 6.2.1 Natural hydrological cycle
  • 6.2.1.1 Global hydrological cycle
  • 6.2.1.2 Hydrological cycle of a watershed
  • 6.2.2 Functions of the hydrological cycle
  • 6.2.2.1 Water quantity secured by the hydrological cycle
  • 6.2.2.2 Water quality secured by the hydrological cycle
  • 6.2.3 Thermodynamic characteristics of the hydrological cycle
  • 6.2.4 Human disturbance of the hydrological cycle
  • 6.3 URBAN WATER CYCLE
  • 6.3.1 Characteristics of the urban water cycle
  • 6.3.2 Conventional modern urban water system
  • 6.3.3 Urban water system toward a new paradigm
  • 6.4 CONCEPTUAL SCHEME OF WATER CYCLE MANAGEMENT
  • 6.4.1 Resource management
  • 6.4.2 Quality management
  • 6.4.3 Water use management
  • 6.4.4 Discharge management
  • 6.4.5 Overall management
  • 6.5 WCM CONCEPT APPLICATION FOR WATER SOURCE ENLARGEMENT TO RESTORE AWATER CITY
  • 6.5.1 Background
  • 6.5.2 Water source enlargement plan
  • 6.5.2.1 Requirement of source enlargement
  • 6.5.2.2 Source enlargement measures
  • 6.5.2.2.1 Alternative water resource development.
  • 6.5.2.2.2 Increasing water use efficiency
  • 6.5.2.3 Formulation of a quasi-natural water cycle for water source enlargement
  • 6.5.2.4 Implementation plan
  • 6.5.2.4.1 Water supply network
  • 6.5.2.4.2 Source water distribution
  • 6.5.2.4.3 Realization of cascading water use
  • 6.5.2.4.4 Water quality protection
  • 6.5.3 Effects of water source enlargement
  • REFERENCES
  • Chapter 7: Resilient infrastructures for reducing urban flooding risks
  • 7.1 INTRODUCTION
  • 7.1.1 Definition of main terms
  • 7.2 REVIEW OF THE CONTEXT
  • 7.2.1 Flooding hazard
  • 7.2.2 Infrastructure resilience from a system perspective
  • 7.2.2.1 Infrastructure risk and resilience
  • 7.2.3 Adaptation strategies and adaptation benefits
  • 7.2.3.1 Monetary and non-monetary benefits from adaptation
  • 7.3 FLOOD-WISE USE OF URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE
  • 7.3.1 Flood risk management in Jingdezhen
  • 7.3.2 Costs and benefits from adaptation measures
  • 7.4 DISCUSSION
  • 7.4.1 Next frontier of research
  • 7.5 CONCLUSION
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • REFERENCES
  • Chapter 8: Building resilience in water supply infrastructure in the face of future uncertainties: Insight from Cape Town
  • 8.1 INTRODUCTION
  • 8.2 THE DROUGHT IN CAPE TOWN
  • 8.2.1 Water resources
  • 8.2.2 Water system vulnerabilities
  • 8.2.2.1 Climate variability
  • 8.2.2.2 Population growth and urbanisation
  • 8.2.2.3 Water supply and demand management
  • 8.2.2.4 Water pricing and social inequality
  • 8.2.2.5 Invasive alien plants species
  • 8.2.3 Demand management
  • 8.2.4 Long-term solutions - supply augmentation
  • 8.3 OPTION CHARACTERISATION ANALYSIS
  • 8.3.1 Criteria 1 (C1): yield (m3/day)
  • 8.3.1.1 Option 1: desalination plant
  • 8.3.1.2 Option 2: groundwater augmentation scheme
  • 8.3.1.3 Option 3: wastewater reuse treatment plant
  • 8.3.1.4 Option 4: surface water transfer scheme.
  • 8.3.2 Criteria 2 (C2): cost per unit of water.

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