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Hyowon Kim, Jaewoo Son, Seockheon Lee, Stef Koop, Kees Van Leeuwen, Young June Choi and Jeryang Park
Many cities are facing various water-related challenges caused by rapid urbanization and climate change. Moreover, a megacity may pose a greater risk due to its scale and complexity for coping with impending challenges. Infrastructure and governance also...
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Carlos Andrés Peña-Guzmán, Joaquín Melgarejo, Inmaculada Lopez-Ortiz and Duvan Javier Mesa
Urban areas are currently experiencing rapid growth, which brings with it increases in the population, the expansion of impervious surfaces, and an overall jump in the environmental and hydrological impact. To mitigate such an impact, different strategie...
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Carlos Andrés Peña-Guzmán, Joaquín Melgarejo, Daniel Prats, Andrés Torres and Sandra Martínez
Urban water management is increasingly important given the need to maintain water resources that comply with global and local standards of quantity and quality. The effective management of water resources requires the optimization of financial resources ...
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Evan Hajani and Ataur Rahman
In large cities, rainwater tanks are used to save mains water, but in peri-urban and rural areas, rainwater tanks are used as a sole water supply for many households, as these regions often do not have any other means of water supply. This paper investig...
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Alessandra Bonoli, Emanuela Di Fusco, Sara Zanni, Ilaria Lauriola, Valentina Ciriello and Vittorio Di Federico
The increasing scarcity of water is encouraging strategies in water saving and urban water management systems devoted to reducing natural resource consumption and environmental impact. At household and urban scales, there is an increasing interest in ons...
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Roger Attwater and Chris Derry
Pressures on urban, peri-urban and rural water and agricultural systems are increasingly complex with multiple interacting stresses and impacts. As a way of addressing these issues there has been increasing consideration as to how to build and manage res...
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Mukta Sapkota, Meenakshi Arora, Hector Malano, Magnus Moglia, Ashok Sharma, Biju George, Francis Pamminger
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Urban water managers around the world are adopting decentralized water supply systems, often in combination with centralized systems. While increasing demand for water arising from population growth is one of the primary reasons for this increased adopti...
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Bojan Ðurin and Jure Margeta
Because of the importance of water supply for the sustainability of urban areas, and due to the significant consumption of energy with prices increasing every day, an alternative solution for sustainable energy supply should be sought in the field of Ren...
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Jing Wu, Xinyu Wu and Jiawei Zhang
The threat of urban floods due to climate change and urbanization has enabled sustained attention to the stormwater management field. Numerous scholars and countries have successively proposed innovative concepts for stormwater management. To grasp the c...
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Sérgia Costa-Dias, Ana Machado, Catarina Teixeira and Adriano A. Bordalo
Temperate estuarine beaches are an asset to coastal cities. Being located within the transition zone where the river meets the sea can provide several environmental benefits such as warm water temperature during the summer, flat waters, protection from c...
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Marc Velasco, Beniamino Russo, Montserrat Martínez, Pere Malgrat, Robert Monjo, Slobodan Djordjevic, Ignasi Fontanals, Salvador Vela, Maria Adriana Cardoso and Aira Buskute
The RESCCUE Project is an H2020 research project that aims to help cities around the world to become more resilient to physical, social, and economic challenges, using the water sector as the central point of the approach. RESCCUE will generate models an...
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Sérgia Costa-Dias, Ana Machado, Catarina Teixeira and Adriano A. Bordalo
Temperate estuarine beaches are an asset to coastal cities. Being located within the transition zone where the river meets the sea can provide several environmental benefits such as warm water temperature during the summer, flat waters, protection from c...
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Imke Fricke, Rolf Götz, Ruprecht Schleyer and Wilhelm Püttmann
Mercury (Hg) is still a focus of environmental research, since its levels in fish frequently exceed the Environmental Quality Standard (EQS) of 20 µg/kg for biota defined by the European Water Framework Directive (Directive 2008/105/EC). Current Hg level...
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Lea Dasallas, Junghwan Lee, Sungphil Jang and Suhyung Jang
Smart water cities (SWCs) use advanced technologies for efficient management and preservation of the urban water cycle, strengthening sustainability and improving the quality of life of the residents. This research aims to develop measurement and evaluat...
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Ataur Rahman
Rainwater harvesting (RWH) is perhaps the most ancient practice to meet water supply needs. It has received renewed attention since the 1970s as a productive water source, water savings and conservation means, and sustainable development tool. In RWH, it...
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Ana Arahuetes, María Hernández and Antonio M. Rico
The Spanish Mediterranean region has been affected by several factors over the years (climatic conditions of aridity, high water demands, rapid and intense urban and population growth, climate change), that have generated a negative water balance whereby...
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Imke Fricke, Rolf Götz, Ruprecht Schleyer and Wilhelm Püttmann
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Doreen Richter, Gudrun Massmann, Uwe Dünnbier
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Anna Palla, Ilaria Gnecco and Luca G. Lanza
Loss of natural soil and vegetation within the urban environment can significantly affect the hydrologic cycle by increasing storm water runoff rates and volumes. In order to mitigate these modifications in urban areas engineered systems are developed, s...
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Eva Lieberherr and Olivia Odom Green
As in other industrialized countries, many urban water social-ecological systems in the United States are characterized by frequent discharges of contaminated runoff, catastrophic flooding, and near-complete severance of the hydrologic cycle. Recent adva...
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