scholarly journals Nature Based Solutions for Sustainable Urban Storm Water Management in Global South: A Short Review

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fahad Ahmed ◽  
Shashwat Sharma ◽  
Loc Ho ◽  
Ming Chow
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Low Impact Development ◽  
Global South ◽  
Storm Water ◽  
Urban Drainage ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
Urban Water Management ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Storm Water Management ◽  
Urban Storm

Rapid urbanization in the Global South exacerbates urban water management challenges such as urban flooding and water pollution, rendering many areas water-insecure. Our reliance on grey infrastructures to combat these water management challenges is not sustainable in the long run, due to which a better alternative must be sought. Nature-based Solution (NBS) promote ecosystem services and enhance climate resiliency along with flood control and improvement of water quality by utilizing natural elements including green spaces and water bodies within the urban environment. In the past few decades, NBS have been adapted for urban drainage in Global North and evolved by means of various terms based on geographic location, practices and applications. Some of these well-known terms include Low Impact Development (LIDs), Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS), Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) and Best Management Practices (BMPs). The transition towards a resilient and sustainable environment has been made possible through the application of NBS. Recently, countries in the Global South such as Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Thailand are trying to alter urban storm water management strategies through conversion of grey infrastructure to green infrastructure by employing various NBS techniques. The findings of this study show how NBS has influenced the Global South’s urban water management.

A game theoretical low impact development optimization model for urban storm water management

2019 ◽  
Vol 241 ◽  
pp. 118323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morvarid Latifi ◽  
Gholamreza Rakhshandehroo ◽  
Mohammad Reza Nikoo ◽  
Mojtaba Sadegh
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Optimization Model ◽  
Low Impact Development ◽  
Storm Water ◽  
Storm Water Management ◽  
Urban Storm

A brief history of water supply and wastewater management in ancient Greece

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 618-628 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. N. Angelakis ◽  
D. S. Spyridakis
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Storm Water ◽  
Wastewater Management ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
Urban Water Management ◽  
History Of ◽  
Water And Wastewater ◽  
Greek Civilization

The evolution of urban water management in ancient Greece begins in Crete during the Middle Bronze and the beginning of the Late Bronze Ages (ca. 2000–1500 B.C.) when many remarkable developments occurred in several stages as Minoan civilization flourished on the island. One of its salient characteristics was the architectural and hydraulic function of its water supply and sewerage systems in the Minoan Palaces and several other settlements. These technologies, though they do not give a complete picture of water supply and wastewater and storm water technologies in ancient Greece, indicate nevertheless that such technologies have been used in Greece since prehistoric times. Minoan water and wastewater technologies were diffused to the Greek mainland in the subsequent phases of Greek civilization, i.e. in the Mycenaean, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic and Roman periods. The scope of this article is the presentation of the most characteristic forms of ancient hydraulic works and related technologies and their uses in past Greek civilizations.

scholarly journals Investigation of the low impact development strategies for highly urbanized area via auto-calibrated Storm Water Management Model (SWMM)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ömer Ekmekcioğlu ◽  
Muhammet Yılmaz ◽  
Mehmet Özger ◽  
Fatih Tosunoğlu
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Model Calibration ◽  
Low Impact Development ◽  
Green Roof ◽  
Computational Cost ◽  
Storm Water ◽  
Storm Event ◽  
Efficiency Coefficient ◽  
Storm Water Management ◽  
Permeable Pavements

Abstract This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of the low impact development (LID) practices on sustainable urban flood storm water management. We applied three LID techniques, i.e. green roof, permeable pavements and bioretention cells, on a highly urbanized watershed in Istanbul, Turkey. The EPA-SWMM was used as a hydrologic-hydraulic model and the model calibration was performed by the well-known Parameter ESTimation (PEST) tool. The rainfall-runoff events occurred between 2012 and 2020. A sensitivity analysis on the parameter selection was applied to reduce the computational cost. The Nash-Sutcliffe efficiency coefficient (NSE) was used as the objective function and it was calculated as 0.809 in the model calibration. The simulations were conducted for six different return periods of a storm event, i.e. 2, 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100-years, in which the synthetic storm event hyetographs were produced by means of the alternating block method. The results revealed that the combination of green roof and permeable pavements have the major impact on both the peak flood reduction and the runoff volume reduction compared to the single LIDs. The maximum runoff reduction percentage was obtained as 56.02% for a 10-years return period of a storm event in the combination scenario.

scholarly journals Storm water Management in the context of Climate Change and Rapid Urbanization: A case of Tokyo Metropolitan

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 32-44
Author(s):  
Binaya Kumar Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Water Management ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Water Environment ◽  
Storm Water ◽  
Groundwater Depletion ◽  
Flood Events ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Storm Water Management ◽  
Tokyo Metropolitan

Groundwater table depletion and increasing flood events can be easily realized in urban areas. It is necessary to improve existing storm water management systems for good quality water environment and reduced hydro-meteorological disasters while preserving our natural/pristine environment in a sustainable manner. This can be achieved through optimal collection, infiltration and storage of storm water. The need of sustainable storm water management is desired and optimal capture measure is explored in this paper. This paper provides a review of storm water management in urbanization and climate change context with a case study of Tokyo Metropolitan, Japan which could be helpful in mitigating the dual problems of groundwater depletion and flood events. This paper presents the overview of storm water run-off management in order to guide future storm water management policies. Also, the effects of different onsite facilities from water harvesting, reuse, ponds and infiltration are explored to establish adaptation strategies that restore water cycle and reduce climate change induced flood and water scarcity.

scholarly journals Avaliação do desempenho de telhados verdes e reservatórios de lote no amortecimento de vazões de pico em uma bacia urbana

Revista DAE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (227) ◽  
pp. 35-49
Author(s):  
Júlia Baptistella Machado Dutra ◽  
Talita Fernanda das Graças Silva
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Low Impact Development ◽  
Storm Water ◽  
Management Model ◽  
Storm Water Management ◽  
Storm Water Management Model ◽  
Belo Horizonte

Mudanças no uso do solo e impermeabilização das superfícies têm aumentado a ocorrência de inundações nas cidades brasileiras. Este trabalho investiga como telhados verdes e reservatórios de lote minimizam inundações urbanas ao reduzir o escoamento superficial e a vazão de pico. A bacia do córrego Engenho Nogueira (Belo Horizonte, MG) foi escolhida como estudo de caso. O Storm Water Management Model foi utilizado para simular três cenários: C0, situação atual; C100 e C50, implantando as técnicas, respectivamente, em 100% e 50% das áreas potenciais. O escoamento superficial na bacia foi reduzido em até 22,3% devido ao bom desempenho dos telhados verdes, com escoamento superficial nulo e volumes drenados até 25,5% inferiores ao volume precipitado. Os reservatórios de lote apresentaram baixo desempenho devido ao volume insuficiente. A vazão de pico no exutório da bacia foi reduzida em no máximo 11,6% (C100, chuva com tempo de retorno de 10 anos e duração de 10 minutos). Palavras-chave: Low Impact Development. Técnicas compensatórias. SWMM. Drenagem urbana.

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