Integrated Wastewater Management for Health and Valorization: A Design Manual for Resource Challenged Cities
Adequate wastewater treatment in low to medium income cities worldwide has largely been a failure despite decades of funding. The still dominant end-of-pipe paradigm of treatment for surface water...
Sustainable Urban Metabolism: Strategies and technologies for energy and materials recovery from water and wastes
Sustainable Urban Metabolism summarizes the state-of-the-art issues related to sustainable urban metabolism, covering treatment and management of water, wastewater and solid wastes,...
Water Resilience in Practice: Experiences from the frontline
Water Resilience in Practice is co-edited by two experienced water sector professionals and reviews resilience in water supply service delivery. This will be in the form of a series of case...
Quantification and Modelling of Fugitive GHG Emissions from Urban Water Systems: A report from the IWA Task Group on GHG
With increased commitment from the international community to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from all sectors in accordance with the Paris Agreement, the water sector has never felt the...
Metrology in Urban Drainage: Plug and pray
This book presents the advancements made in applied metrology in the field of Urban Drainage and Storm water Management over the past two decades in scientific research as well as in practical...
Future-oriented technologies and concepts to increase water availability by water reuse and desalination
The pressure on available freshwater resources due to urbanization and climate change impacts is increasing worldwide; so follows the need to explore unconventional resources. Water reuse and...
Water in Himalayan Towns: Lessons for Adaptive Water Governance
Increasing urbanization and changing climate are two critical stressors that are adversely affecting the biophysical environment of urban areas in the Hindu Kush Himalaya. The book discusses...
Assessment Standard for Sponge City Effects
In 2014, China initiated its national action plan for sponge city development aiming to tackle urban water and environmental challenges. Since then, numerous projects have been implemented across...
Hydrology: Advances in Theory and Practice
Hydrology: Advances in Theory and Practice, brings together contributions to both the theory and practice of hydrology, including chapters on (amongst other topics) flood estimation methods and...
Drought Policies: Case Studies on Mega-droughts for the High Level Experts and Leaders Panel on Water and Disasters (HELP)
This book focuses on mega-droughts of the past 20 years. Twelve cases from both developed and developing countries are elaborated in the book. Its intention is to draw lessons from the cases of...