Book chapter
Urban water supply: modeling watersheds and treatment facilities
Metropolitan Sustainability: Understanding and Improving the Urban Environment, pp 370-389
01 Jan 2012
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Abstract
Urban populations are growing in arid regions where precipitation is very low, which severely constrains water supply, as well as temperate parts of the USA, where early populations began without those same constraints but who faced other challenges pertaining to wastewater treatment. This chapter discusses some of the major challenges facing sustainable water supply and distribution within water infrastructure systems resulting from increased population demand, aging infrastructure, diminishing pristine resources, and pollution and other environmental risks. The chapter identifies a set of technologies projected to be used to decentralize water treatment and supply through a variety of means, including agricultural best management practices, source reuse, desalination and green infrastructure. This chapter discusses the importance and use of systems analysis methods to guide an improved understanding and design of water resources in urban environments and future water management research directions that aim to combine energy recovery from the movement or treatment of water.
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- Title
- Urban water supply: modeling watersheds and treatment facilities
- Creators
- L. Weinrich - Drexel UniversityJ. F. Hubler - Drexel UniversityS. Spatari - Drexel University
- Contributors
- F Zeman (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Metropolitan Sustainability: Understanding and Improving the Urban Environment, pp 370-389
- Series
- Woodhead Publishing Series in Energy
- Publisher
- Woodhead Publ Ltd; CAMBRIDGE
- Number of pages
- 20
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000314305900017
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84902568039
- Other Identifier
- 991019170353704721
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