Urban Water Security: Managing Risks

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-415-48566-1
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 884 g

Reihe: Urban Water Series

Understanding the impacts of urbanization on the urban water cycle and managing the associated health risks demand adequate strategies and measures. Health risks associated with urban water systems and services include the microbiological and chemical contamination of urban waters and outbreak of water-borne diseases, mainly due to poor water and sanitation in urban areas, and the discharge as well as the disposal of inadequately treated, or untreated, industrial and domestic wastewater. Climate change only exacerbates these problems, as alternative scenarios need to be taken into consideration in urban water risk management.

Urban Water Security: Managing Risks – the result of a project by UNESCO’s International Hydrological Programme on the topic – addresses issues associated with urban water risks. The first section of the volume describes risks associated with urban water systems and services. The volume then discusses the concept of risk management for urban water systems and explores different approaches to managing and controlling urban water risks. A concluding section presents case studies on managing urban water risks.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cisneros, Blanca Jimenez

Jimenez Cisneros, Blanca

Rose, Joan B.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Wasserversorgung
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Wasserversorgung, Wasseraufbereitung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction
2. Drinking water – Potential health effects caused by wastewater disposal
3. Microbial Health Risks and Water Quality; 4. Chemical Health Risks

5. Risk Management on the urban water cycle. Climate change risks

6. Water source and drinking water risk management

7. Wastewater risks in the urban water cycle

8. Risks Associated with Biosolids Reuse in Agriculture

9. Closing the Urban Water Cycle” Integrated Approach towards Water Reuse in Windhoek, Namibia

10. Reducing risk from wastewater use in urban farming – a case study of Accra, Ghana

11. Drinking water – potential health effects caused by infiltration of pollutants from solid waste landfills

12. Exploding sewers: the industrial use and abuse of municipal sewers, and reducing the risk—the experience of Louisville, Kentucky US

13. Lessons learned: a response and recovery framework for post-disaster scenarios

14. Managing urban water risks: Managing drought and climate change risks in Australia

Über Autor(innen)

Jimenez Cisneros\, Blanca; Rose\, Joan B.