Smart Technologies and Water Supply Planning II
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Water Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2021) | Viewed by 11288
Special Issue Editors
Interests: urban water; wastewater and stormwater systems; decentralised systems; hydraulic and hydrology; integrated urban water management; sustainability assessment; water resources; water sensitive urban design
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Interests: decentralised and on-site sewerage systems; integrated urban water management; water sensitive urban design; irrigation systems; wastewater recycling; system thinking as applied to the urban water cycle, metabolism of ecologically sensitive subdivision (water, energy and nutrient balances); quantitative microbial risk assessment of alternative urban water supplies, etc.
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Urbanisation, population growth and climate change drive the planning of water supply systems. Urban developments are facing a shortage of fresh water resources, yet somewhat perversely, an increase in their wastewater and stormwater generation; adverse impacts on the ecology of the receiving water environment; aging infrastructure; and financial constraints and increase in GHG emissions.
Smart technologies can play an important role in the better planning, design, implementation, operation and maintenance of water supply systems. These technologies may include application of geospatial technologies, including remote sensing; pressure-reducing systems to mitigate potable water mains pipe bursts; maintaining demand-driven pressure in systems; minimising non-revenue water through timely location of leaks; real-time monitoring of systems; application of IoT for water quantity and quality monitoring; use of ITC and control systems; real-time water network analysis for system control; management of rainwater storages for reducing peak runoff rates; and real-time feed back of water consumption and price to customers, alerting customers to hidden (sub surface) water leaks.
The application of smart technologies is also being promoted in water systems for the management of stormwater-harvesting systems; local aquifers to store stormwater (ASR); real-time detection of pathogens using chip-based DNA technology; critical control points to ensure “out of spec water” does not pass onto the next treatment step; and real-time sensors and alert systems for cross-connection in dual reticulation systems in suburbs and on-demand UV systems (i.e., LED-based) to reduce energy use from “under the sink” domestic installations.
Assoc. Prof. Ashok Sharma
Prof. Ted Gardner
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- water supply systems
- smart technologies
- real-time monitoring
- control system
- IoT
- remote sensing
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