As urban space continues to expand to accommodate a growing global population, there
remains a real need to quantify and qualify the impacts of urban space on natural processes …

Climate change and urbanization are converging to challenge city drainage infrastructure
due to their adverse impacts on precipitation extremes and the environment of urban areas …

The management of urban stormwater has become increasingly complex over recent
decades. Consequently, terminology describing the principles and practices of urban …

Urban pluvial flooding now occurs more frequently than it has in past decades, mainly due to
an increasing number of extreme precipitation events occurring in the context of a changing …

This new edition of a well-established textbook covers the environmental and engineering
aspects of the management of rainwater and wastewater in areas of human development …

Sustainability challenges us to reflect on wastewater treatment differently. Instead of
focussing on end-of-pipe-treatment for emission prevention, attention shifts towards optimal …

Life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology was used to compare the environmental loads
from wastewater systems with different technical solutions. This study compared proposed …

Conventional urban water management practices aim to meet water supply-demands while
conveying wastewater and stormwater away from urban settings. Alternative approaches …

Stormwater infiltration systems are widely used in the control of polluted urban runoff. They
are very effective in reducing the volume of stormwater runoff and improving its quality, but …

Instrumentation, control and automation (ICA) are currently applied throughout the urban
water system at water treatment plants, in water distribution networks, in sewer networks …