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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Urban water system"”.
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Rehabilitation of the urban water system in Khartoum
Water is the most common substance on earth, covering more than 70% of the planet's surface. The supply of fresh water has been shrinking; up until now water has been treated as an unlimited resource that has been provided as cheaply as possible and in any quantity desired. Yet by the year 2020 …
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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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Mathematical modeling of urban water management strategies
The rapid expansion of many western urban centers has nearly outstripped available stream, flow and groundwater re-sources requiring municipal water departments to initiate exhaustive searches for new water supplies. Among the most feasible alternatives being investigated to date are acquisition …
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The Critique of Everyday Drought: A Feminist Decolonial Analysis of Hydro-Climate Policies in Cape Town, South Africa
… analysis of the power dynamics shaping urban hydro-climate policies in the context of a growing push by the World Bank and other powerful actors to create new opportunities for water-related private investments in the global South. Drawing from the emblematic case of Cape Town, South …
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Linking biophysical models and life cycle assessment to evaluate environmental tradeoffs of urban water infrastructure design
Water, a limited resource even on our hydrous planet, has always been inextricably tied to the rise and fall of cities and human infrastructure. Clean, plentiful water drives our food and energy production, provides transport, and keeps humans and the environment healthy. Integrated urban water …
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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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Sustainable Development: Implementation in Urban Water Systems
… no equilibrium or optimal point for an evolving system since the optimum is also moving. Therefore, approaches advocating engineering, linear, and mechanistic paradigms to define sustainability do not make much sense. Instead, we need to resort to non-linear thinking, more commonly referred to as …