Water Infrastructure For Sustainable Communities

Author : Xiaodi Hao,Vladimir Novotny,Valerie Nelson
Publisher : IWA Publishing
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781843393283

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Water Infrastructure for Sustainable Communities by Xiaodi Hao,Vladimir Novotny,Valerie Nelson Pdf

A new model for water management is emerging worldwide in response to water shortages, polluted waterways, climate change, and loss of biodiversity. Cities and towns are questioning the ecological and financial sustainability of big-pipe water, stormwater, and sewer systems and are searching for “lighter footprint” more sustainable solutions. Pilot projects are being built that use, treat, store, and reuse water locally and that build distributed designs into restorative hydrology. This book has been developed from the conference on Sustainable Water Infrastructure for Villages and Cities of the Future (SWIF2009) held in November 2009 in Beijing (China) that brought together an international gathering of experts in urban water and drainage infrastructure, landscape architecture, economics, environmental law, citizen participation, utility management, green building, and science and technology development. Water Infrastructure for Sustainable Communities China and the World reveals how imaginative concepts are being developed and implemented to ensure that cities, towns, and villages and their water resources can become ecologically sustainable and provide clean water. With both urban and rural waters as a focal point, the links between water quality and hydrology, landscape, and the broader concepts of green cities/villages and smart development are explored. The book focuses on decentralized concepts of potable water, stormwater, and wastewater management that would provide clean water. It results in water management systems that would be resilient to extreme events such as excessive flows due to extreme meteorological events, severe droughts, and deteriorated water and urban ecosystem quality. A particular emphasis is placed on learning lessons from the many innovative projects being designed in China and other initiatives around the world. The principal audience for the book is university faculty and students, scientists in research institutes, water professionals, governmental organizations, NGOs, urban landscape architects and planners. Visit the IWA WaterWiki to read and share material related to this title: http://www.iwawaterwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Articles/WaterInfrastructureforSustainableCommunities Edited by Professor Xiaodi Hao, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, P. R. of China, Professor Vladimir Novotny, Northeastern University, Boston, USA and Dr Valerie Nelson, Coalition for Alternative Wastewater Treatment, MA, USA

Author : Vladimir Novotny,Jack Ahern,Paul Brown
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780470642849

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Water Centric Sustainable Communities by Vladimir Novotny,Jack Ahern,Paul Brown Pdf

The current literature compartmentalizes the complex issue of water and wastewater into its discrete components; technology, planning, policy, construction, economics, etc. Considered from the perspective of sustainability, however, water in the urban environment must be approached as a single resource that can be continuously reused and recycled. This book will be the first to capture all of the current work on this idea in a single, integrated, plan for designing the water-centric cities of the future. From new construction to the retrofitting of existing systems, this book presents the case for a new urban relationship to water, one with a more sustainable connection to the environment and the hydrological cycle. Through case studies of successfully planned and built systems around the world, the book will educate the reader about the need for a new approach to urban water management, and make the case that these changes are not only possible but imperative.

Author : David Butler,Christos Makropoulos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Infrastructure (Economics)
ISBN : 184432611X

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Water Related Infrastructure for Sustainable Communities by David Butler,Christos Makropoulos Pdf

Author : William Edward Kelly,Barbara A. Luke,Richard Newport Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0784414815

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Engineering for Sustainable Communities by William Edward Kelly,Barbara A. Luke,Richard Newport Wright Pdf

Engineering for Sustainable Communities: Principles and Practices defines and outlines sustainable engineering methods for real-world engineering projects.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264230149

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OECD Studies on Water Water and Cities Ensuring Sustainable Futures by OECD Pdf

This report focuses on the urban water management challenges facing cities across OECD countries, and explores both national and local policy responses with respect to water-risk exposure, the state of urban infrastructures and dynamics, and institutional and governance architectures.

Author : Warren Stiver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Municipal water supply
ISBN : OCLC:776812844

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Urban Water Infrastructure and Sustainable Energy by Warren Stiver Pdf

Water is an essential dimension of urban communities. Canadian urban water infrastructure is due for major investments in part due to its age and more importantly for the next generation in its character. The current infrastructure requires considerable energy to operate and thereby the infrastructure is part of global energy challenges and the problem of global climate change. The objective of this report is to reflect on the next generation of urban water infrastructure from a sustainable energy perspective.

Author : U. S. Environmental Protection Agency
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1984920634

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Enhancing Sustainable Communities with Green Infrastructure by U. S. Environmental Protection Agency Pdf

Communities across the country want to protect their water quality while also getting the greatest possible benefit out of every investment they make. Many are conserving, restoring, or enhancing natural areas while incorporating trees, rain gardens, vegetated roofs, and other practices that mimic natural systems into developed areas to manage rainwater where it falls. These types of approaches, known as "green infrastructure," are an integral component of sustainable communities primarily because they can help communities protect the environment and human health while providing other social and economic benefits, allowing communities to achieve more for their money. Using green infrastructure strategies to reduce stormwater runoff can strengthen efforts to preserve open space and natural areas and encourage development in existing communities. Green infrastructure elements help make neighborhood streets and greenways pleasant and safe for walking and biking and reinforce a sense of place. Integrating green infrastructure and sustainable communities encourages collaboration in development decisions and promotes green building practices. Engaging the entire community creates a vision for the future based on people's and businesses' needs, desires, and aspirations. This vision guides the plan and ultimately implementation. A sustainable communities and green infrastructure plan will touch nearly every aspect of a community's design. Involving a wide range of community members in developing both the vision and the plan creates broad support and encourages multiple champions to emerge to handle different aspects of implementation. Such broad-based involvement also helps ensure people from all walks of life, including vulnerable and disadvantaged populations, can share in the benefits that come from implementing a green infrastructure plan. Successful plans include clear goals, an assessment of assets and opportunities, a comprehensive look at how to achieve implementation, a means for funding implementation, a way to monitor and measure progress toward achieving the community's goals, and a strategy for long-term operations and maintenance. With such a plan in place, a community will be well on its way to improving quality of life, protecting the environment, improving public health, becoming economically stronger, and preparing for climate change impacts

Author : Tamim Younos,Juneseok Lee,Tammy E. Parece
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030958442

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Resilient Water Management Strategies in Urban Settings by Tamim Younos,Juneseok Lee,Tammy E. Parece Pdf

This book documents innovative approaches for integrating green technologies and decentralized water infrastructure. The two major components of green decentralized water infrastructure are: (1) using locally available alternative water sources (rainwater, greywater, and brackish/saltwater) (at multiple scales, e.g., a single building to a neighborhood community level); and (2) using renewable energy resources (solar, wind, biomass, geothermal, other). Chapter 1, introduces the concept and framework of green decentralized water infrastructure. The subsequent nine chapters give a detailed description of global case studies, and discuss significant components of the green decentralized water infrastructure and the challenges. The chapters document global case studies and prospects (chapters 1-7) followed by challenges facing decentralized water infrastructure (chapters 8-10). The book will provide a cross-disciplinary knowledge-base for smart & futuristic water management in urban settings and a significant opportunity for sharing smart and decentralized water technologies at the global level

Author : Sarah Bell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781317398288

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Urban Water Sustainability by Sarah Bell Pdf

The provision of a safe and reliable water supply is a major challenge for the world's growing urban populations. This book investigates the implications of different developments in water technology and infrastructure for urban sustainability and the relationship between cities and nature. The book begins by outlining five frameworks for analysing water technologies and systems - sustainable development, ecological modernisation, socio-technical systems, political ecology and radical ecology. It then analyses in detail what the sustainability implications are of different technical developments in water systems, specifically: demand management, sanitation, urban drainage, water reuse and desalination. The main purpose of the book is to draw out the social, political and ethical implications of technical changes that are occurring in urban water systems around the world, with positive and negative impacts on sustainability. Distinguished from existing social science analysis due to its attention to the engineering details of the technology, this book will be of use to a wide audience, including students on water management courses, engineering students and researchers, urban geographers and planners interested in sustainability, infrastructure and critical ecology.

Author : Mike Young,Christine Esau
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136478147

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Investing in Water for a Green Economy by Mike Young,Christine Esau Pdf

In the context of the economies of the world becoming greener, this book provides a global and interdisciplinary overview of the condition of the world’s water resources and the infrastructure used to manage it. It focuses on current social and economic costs of water provision, needs and opportunities for investment and for improving its management. It describes the large array of water policy challenges facing the world, including the Millennium Development Goals for clean water and sanitation, and shows how these might be met. There is a mixture of global overviews, reviews of specific issues and an array of case studies. It is shown how accelerated investment in water-dependent ecosystems, in water infrastructure and in water management can be expected to expedite the transition to a green economy. The book provides a key source of information for people interested in understanding emerging water issues and approaches that are consistent with a world that takes greater responsibility for the environment.

Author : Chad Staddon,Christopher A. Scott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000433524

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Putting Water Security to Work by Chad Staddon,Christopher A. Scott Pdf

Over the last decade, water security has replaced sustainability as the key optic for thinking about how we manage water. This reframing has offered benefits (including clear recognition of the link between humans, the environment and the right to water) and also posed challenges (the tendency in some quarters to interpret “security” solely in terms of geopolitical or economic “securitisation”). In this collection, the authors offer a radical repositioning of these debates updated to reflect the concerns of our post-pandemic world. The chapters in this volume examine several different themes including how water security articulates with locality and culture, how it operates across spatial scales and its moral/ethical resonances. The chapters in this book were originally published in the journals Water International and International Journal of Water Resources Development.

Author : Committee on Small Water Supply Systems,Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources,Division on Earth and Life Studies,National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309522847

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Safe Water From Every Tap by Committee on Small Water Supply Systems,Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources,Division on Earth and Life Studies,National Research Council Pdf

Small communities violate federal requirements for safe drinking water as much as three times more often than cities. Yet these communities often cannot afford to improve their water service. Safe Water From Every Tap reviews the risks of violating drinking water standards and discusses options for improving water service in small communities. Included are detailed reviews of a wide range of technologies appropriate for treating drinking water in small communities. The book also presents a variety of institutional options for improving the management efficiency and financial stability of water systems.

Author : Vishnu Prasad Pandey,Sangam Shrestha,David Wiberg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781119564508

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Water, Climate Change, and Sustainability by Vishnu Prasad Pandey,Sangam Shrestha,David Wiberg Pdf

An in-depth review of sustainable concepts in water resources management under climate change Climate change continues to intensify existing pressures in water resources management, such as rapid population growth, land use changes, pollution, damming of rivers, and many others. Securing a reliable water supply—critical for achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—requires understanding of the relation between finite water resources, climate variability/change, and various elements of sustainability. Water, Climate Change, and Sustainability is a timely and in-depth examination of the concept of sustainability as it relates to water resources management in the context of climate change risks. Featuring contributions by global authors, this edited volume is organized into three sections: Sustainability Concepts; Sustainability Approaches, Tools, and Techniques; and Sustainability in Practice. Detailed chapters describe the linkage between water and sustainable development, highlight the development and use of new measuring and reporting methods, and discuss the implementation of sustainability concepts in various water use sectors. Topics include localizing and mainstreaming global water sustainability initiatives, resilient water infrastructure for poverty reduction, urban water security for sustainable cities, climate actions and challenges for sustainable ecosystem services, and more. This important resource: Reviews contemporary scientific research and practical applications in the areas of water, climate change and sustainability in different regions of the world Discusses future directions of research and practices in relation to expected patterns of climate changes Covers a wide range of concepts, theories, and perspectives of sustainable development of water resources Features case studies of field and modelling techniques for analyzing water resources and evaluating vulnerability, security, and associated risks Discusses practical applications of water resources in contexts such as food security, global health, clean energy, and climate action Water, Climate Change, and Sustainability is an invaluable resource for policy makers water managers, researchers, and other professionals in the field, and an ideal text for graduate students in hydrogeology, climate change, geophysics, geochemistry, geography, water resources, and environmental science.

Author : Mark Roseland
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781550925067

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Toward Sustainable Communities by Mark Roseland Pdf

The single most useful resource out there on how to build and grow sustainable places The need to make our communities sustainable is more urgent than ever before. Toward Sustainable Communities remains the single most useful resource for creating vibrant, healthy, equitable, economically viable places. This comprehensive update of the classic text presents a leading-edge overview of sustainability in a new fully illustrated, full-color format. Compelling new case studies and expanded treatment of sustainability in rural as well as urban settings are complemented by contributions from a range of experts around the world, demonstrating how "community capital" can be leveraged to meet the needs of cities and towns for: Energy efficiency, waste reduction, and recycling Water, sewage, transportation, and housing Climate change and air quality Land use and urban planning. Fully supported by a complete suite of online resources and tools, Toward Sustainable Communities is packed with concrete, innovative solutions to a host of municipal challenges. Required reading for policymakers, educators, social enterprises, and engaged citizens, this "living book" will appeal to anyone concerned about community sustainability and a livable future. Mark Roseland is director of the Centre for Sustainable Community Development at Simon Fraser University and professor at SFU's School of Resource and Environmental Management. He lectures internationally, advises communities and governments on sustainable development policy and planning, and has been cited as one of British Columbia's "top fifty living public intellectuals."

Author : Richard C. Carter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1788531663

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Rural Community Water Supply by Richard C. Carter Pdf

Richard Carter weaves together the myriad of factors that need to come together to make rural water supply truly available to everyone. He concludes that ultimately, systemic change to the global web of injustice that divides this world into rich and poor may be the only way to address the underlying problem.