Urban Water Engineering and Management »

Mohammad Karamouz is affiliated with the Polytechnic Institute of New York University.

In past decades, urban water management practices focused on optimizing the design and operation of water distribution networks, wastewater collection systems, and water and wastewater treatment plants. However, municipalities are now faced with aging urban water infrastructures whose operation must be improved and expanded to maintain current high standards of living as well as new challenges such as climate change, systems sustainability and water quality issues. Integrating the latest developments in urban water hydrology and management, Urban Water Engineering and Management takes a system approach to urban water hydrology, engineering, planning and management, supplying examples and case studies and highlighting pressing issues such as urban water governance, disaster management, and climate change impacts on urban areas. The book draws attention to climate change as a main concern of this century by focusing on its impact the components of water cycle.

The book covers modeling of urban water cycle components, urban water supply, and distribution systems demand forecasting. It also presents classical issues, such as design of water distribution networks and wastewater and storm collection in urban settings, from a system's perspective. The text also includes a discussion of water governance and disaster management in urban areas and the urbanization effects on the environment and the needed water infrastructure development in urban areas. Against this background, the authors discuss the importance of understanding the principles of simulation, optimization, multiple-criterion decision making, and conflict resolution for successful, integrated urban water management. They explore integrated water management and planning solutions for incorporating structural and nonstructural means to achieve the best operational schemes at affordable costs, going beyond using the existing structures and physical limitations on water availability to include technical, social, political, and economic aspects of better water and wastewater management in urban areas.

Written and designed especially for intermediate and advanced courses/modules in water resources in civil and environmental engineering, and in urban planning, the book can be used as a textbook for civil engineering, urban and regional planning, geography, environmental science, and in courses dealing with urban water cycle. It also introduces new horizons for engineers as well as policy and decision makers who plan for future urban water and regional sustainability. Engineers and planners, especially those who work on design, planning, and management of urban systems and/or community development, can use this book in practice because it deals with a broad range of real world urban water problems.

Introduction
Urban Water Cycle Interaction of Climatic, Hydrologic Process, and Urban Component UrbanWater Infrastructure Management UrbanWater Cycle Management Summary and Conclusion References
Governance and UrbanWater Planning
Introduction Water Sensitive Urban Design Water Governance Governance Models .
Absence of Public Participation Remaining Issues Urban Planning UrbanWater Planning UrbanWater Assessment Concluding Remarks References
UrbanWater Hydrology
Introduction Rainfall—Runoff Analysis in Urban Areas Excess Rainfall Calculation Rainfall Measurement Estimation of Urban Runoff Volume Unit Hydrographs Revisiting a Flood Record A Test of the Significance of the Urban Effect Hydrologic Modeling System (HEC-HMS)
Problems References
UrbanWater Supply and Demand
Introduction History ofWater Supply Development Water Availability Water Development and Share ofWater Users Man-Made and Natural Resources forWater Supplies Supplementary Sources ofWater Water Treatment Methods Water Supply System Challenges Water Demand Water Demand Forecasting Water Storage Water Distribution System Hydraulics ofWater Distribution Systems Pipeline Analysis and Design Water Quality Modeling in aWater Distribution Network Concluding Remarks Problems References
UrbanWater Demand Management
Introduction Basic Definitions ofWater Use Paradigm Shift in UrbanWater Management: Toward Demand Management The “Soft Path” forWater UrbanWater Demand Management: Objectives and Strategies UWDM Screening UrbanWater Demand UrbanWater Demand Management Factors Demographic Considerations EvaluatingWater Conservation Future Demand Supply Conflict Issues inWater Demand Management Application of UWDM for SustainableWater Development Concluding Remarks Problems References
UrbanWater Drainage System
Introduction Urban Planning and Stormwater Drainage Open-Channel Flow in UrbanWatersheds Components of Urban Stormwater Drainage Systems Culverts Design Flow of Surface Drainage Channels Stormwater Storage Facilities Risk Issues in Urban Drainage Urban Floods Sanitation Wastewater Management StormNET: Stormwater andWastewater Modeling Problems References
Environmental Impacts of Urbanization
Introduction Urbanization Effects on the Hydrologic Cycle Urbanization Impacts onWater Quality Physical and Ecological Impacts of Urbanization Urbanization Impacts on Rivers and Lakes Impacts of Urbanization on Groundwater Overall State of Impacts Problems References
Tools and Techniques
Introduction Simulation Techniques Optimization Techniques Fuzzy Sets and Parameter Imprecision UrbanWater Systems Economics Problems References
UrbanWater Infrastructure
Introduction UrbanWater Infrastructures Interactions between the UrbanWater Cycle and Urban Infrastructure Components Financing Methods for Infrastructure Development Sustainable Development of UrbanWater Infrastructures SIM ofWater Mains Public Benefits from SIM Improvements Opportunities for SIM Capability Improvement .
Concluding Remarks Problems .
References
UrbanWater System Dynamics and Conflict Resolution
Introduction System Dynamics Conflict Resolution Case Studies Conclusion: Making TechnologiesWork Problems References
UrbanWater Disaster Management
Introduction Sources and Kinds of Disasters What is UWDM?
Societal Responsibilities Planning Process for UWDM Water Disaster Management Strategies Situation Analysis Disaster Indices Uncertainties in UrbanWater Engineering Risk Analysis: Composite Hydrological and Hydraulic Risk System Readiness Guidelines for Disaster Management Developing a Pattern for the Analysis of the System’s Readiness Conclusion Problems References
Climate Change
Introduction Climate Change Process Impacts of Climate Change on UrbanWater Supply Adaptation with Climate Change Climate Change Prediction Downscaling Models Case Studies Conclusion Problems References .
Index