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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Integrated Urban Water Management"”.
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Every Last Drop: The role of spatial planning in integrated urban water management in the Cape Town City-Region
Water is essential to life. However, the current urban water system and environment is degrading freshwater ecosystems, nature’s ability to replenish resources and the relationship between people and the environment due to unsustainable consumption and discharge patterns. This is an international …
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Sustainability index for integrated urban water management (IUWM) in southern African cities : case study applications : Greater Hermanus region and Maputo City
The critical situation in the water sector continues to jeopardize developmental principles and undermine strategies for poverty eradication. On the assumption that the failure in service provision can be largely attributed to an inability to holistically address all aspects of urban water …
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The evaluation and improvement of a sustainability index for intergrated urban water management in South African cities.
Water is not only essential for maintaining life; it is a key component of sustainable social and economic development having links to, inter alia, health, 'sense of place', food production and industrial growth. Although progress has been made with regard to water supply, it is estimated that …
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Assessing benefits and consequences of water conservation and fit for purpose water systems
Rising population accompanied with urbanization is increasingly challenging the resilience and capacity of traditional water management system. The migration of the human population to urban areas has given birth to sprawling new developments and re-developments which poses serious challenges to …
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The scope of learning alliances as a mechanism for more innovative urban water management
… Alliances as a mechanism for more innovative urban water management”. Urban water management presents complex and multi-dimensional problems for which solutions must consider the institutional, socioeconomic and governance contexts. SWITCH (2006-2011), an EU-sponsored research project, used a …
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Large-scale Process-based Urban Hydrological Modeling Framework
Urban flooding presents a significant global challenge, exacerbated by increasingly frequent extreme climate events and rapid urbanization. Mitigation efforts typically involve implementing various strategies to enhance stormwater storage and infiltration. However, the complexity of these …
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A measure of sustainability in the context of urban water management in South Africa
… potential for sustainability in a South African urban water context. This was achieved through the use of a systems approach to develop and evaluate a composite index – the Sustainability Index for Integrated Urban Water Management (SIUWM) – based on a vision of what sustainable urban water …
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Review and gap analysis of Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) in Windhoek, Namibia
… population and global warming, fresh water resources are nearing depletion resulting in a global water crisis. As a consequence, cases of drought have been reported worldwide especially in sub-Saharan Africa. In addition to climate change, urbanisation adds strain to infrastructure as …