Water Communication lead by Urban Water People

Urban water sustainability

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Modelling the impact of Water Sensitive Urban Design technologies on the urban water cycle Modelling the impact of Water Sensitive Urban Design technologies on the urban water cycle

Water vending in urban Sudan

Water vendors, selling water door-to-door from donkey carts, are an important source of domestic supply in low-income urban areas in Sudan, as in other developing countries. A study of the demand for this service showed that it was of negligible elasticity, with no evidence of direct control of the price by a monopoly or cartel. It follows that the price of water paid by the poor could be great...

Modelling the urban water cycle

Current urban water management practices aim to remove stormwater and wastewater efficiently from urban areas. An alternative approach is to consider stormwater and wastewater as a potential resource substitute for a portion of the water imported via the reticulated supply system. A holistic view of urban water resources provides the framework for the evaluation of the demand for water supply, ...

Linking social simulation and urban water modelling tools to support adaptive urban water management

The sustainable evolution of urban areas requires the assessment of the imposed pressures and the estimation of the effect of alternative responses to the urban water resources system. Such estimation entails, to a large extent, uncertainties mainly due to the complex nature of the system and its interaction with society’s subjective beliefs and (rational or otherwise) decisions. These uncertai...