scholarly journals Urban water infrastructure planning of regeneration works in the city of Lorca after the earthquake of 2011 and floods of 2012

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. García-Ayllón
Keyword(s):  
Urban Water ◽  
Water Infrastructure ◽  
Infrastructure Planning ◽  
The City

scholarly journals Water on an urban planet: Urbanization and the reach of urban water infrastructure

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 96-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert I. McDonald ◽  
Katherine Weber ◽  
Julie Padowski ◽  
Martina Flörke ◽  
Christof Schneider ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Water ◽  
Water Infrastructure

scholarly journals Data and Information Systems Management for the Urban Water Infrastructure Condition Assessment

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nelson Carriço ◽  
Bruno Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Condition Assessment ◽  
Water Utilities ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
Water Infrastructure ◽  
Systems Management ◽  
Maturity Level ◽  
Information Systems Management ◽  
The World ◽  
Vital Component

Most of urban water infrastructure around the world were built several decades ago and nowadays they are deteriorated. So, the assets that constitute these infrastructures need to be rehabilitated. Since most of the assets are buried, water utilities face the challenge of deciding how, where and when to rehabilitate. Condition assessment is a vital component on plan rehabilitation actions and is mostly based on the data collected from the managed networks. This collected data need to be put together in order to be transformed into useful information. Nonetheless, the large amount of assets and data involved makes data and information management a challenging task for water utilities, especially in those with as lower digital maturity level. This paper highlights the importance of data and information systems' management for urban water infrastructure condition assessment based on the authors' experience.

Introduction: Reinventing Urban Water Infrastructure

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (8) ◽  
pp. 393-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. Sedlak ◽  
Jörg E. Drewes ◽  
Richard G. Luthy
Keyword(s):  
Urban Water ◽  
Water Infrastructure

Climate Vulnerabilities and Adaptation of Urban Water Infrastructure Systems

2013 ◽  
pp. 87-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.J. Burian ◽  
T. Walsh ◽  
A.J. Kalyanapu ◽  
S.G. Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Urban Water ◽  
Water Infrastructure ◽  
Infrastructure Systems

The City in a Glass of Water: Circulating Water, Circulating Power

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Swyngedouw
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Hydrological Cycle ◽  
Urban Sustainability ◽  
The Political ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
Urbanization Process ◽  
Ecological Processes ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Ecological Criteria ◽  
The City

In recent years, an impressive body of work has emerged in the wake of the resurgence of the environmental question on the political agenda, addressing the environmental implications of urban change or issues related to urban sustainability (Haughton and Hunter 1994; Satterthwaite 1999). In many, if not all, of these cases, the environment is defined in terms of a set of ecological criteria pertaining to the physical milieu. Both urban sustainability and the environmental impacts of the urban process are primarily understood in terms of physical environmental conditions and characteristics. We start from a different position. As explored in Chapter 1, urban water circulation and the urban hydrosocial cycle are the vantage points from which the urbanization process will be analysed in this book. In this Chapter, a glass of water will be my symbolic and material entry point into an—admittedly somewhat sketchy—attempt to excavate the political ecology of the urbanization process. If I were to capture some urban water in a glass, retrace the networks that brought it there and follow Ariadne’s thread through the water, ‘I would pass with continuity from the local to the global, from the human to the nonhuman’ (Latour 1993: 121). These flows would narrate many interrelated tales: of social and political actors and the powerful socio-ecological processes that produce urban and regional spaces; of participation and exclusion; of rats and bankers; of water-borne disease and speculation in water industry related futures and options; of chemical, physical, and biological reactions and transformations; of the global hydrological cycle and global warming; of uneven geographical development; of the political lobbying and investment strategies of dam builders; of urban land developers; of the knowledge of engineers; of the passage from river to urban reservoir. In sum, my glass of water embodies multiple tales of the ‘city as a hybrid’. The rhizome of underground and surface water flows, of streams, pipes and networks is a powerful metaphor for processes that are both social and ecological (Kaïka and Swyngedouw 2000). Water is a ‘hybrid’ thing that captures and embodies processes that are simultaneously material, discursive, and symbolic.

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