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Urban water systems and floods /
This volume contains papers dedicated to the Design, Construction, Maintenance, Monitoring and Control of Urban Water Systems and the Management and Response to Flood Risk. These papers deal with three main subjects: water supply systems; urban drainage and flooding.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores Corporativos: | , |
| Otros Autores: | , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Southampton :
WIT Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | WIT transactions on the built environment ;
v. 165. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Urban Water Systems and Floods; Copyright Page; Preface; Contents; Section 1: Urban water; Current threats to water supply systems; Drinking water catchment and minimum vital flow in torrential habitat; Application of a decision-support system for water loss reduction to the case of a water supply system in Lithuania; Statistical analysis of time of water outflow on the soil surface after the failure of a buried water pipe; Water sensitive cities in South Africa: developing a Community of Practice.
- Influence of chlorinated water on mechanical properties of polyethylene and polyvinyl chloride pipesThe concept of using energy generated by water flowing in pipes to power devices monitoring the water supply network; Applications of system dynamics modelling for management policy implementation of a water supply system; Small-scale modelling of urban structure types for the cost evaluation in sanitary environmental engineering; Computational fluid dynamics design and forecasting of urban drainage unit operation behaviour.
- Using Mass Flow Analysis (MFA) to estimate the performance of scenarios for a rainwater harvesting system in Tyseley, Birmingham, UKHow urban residents improve their satisfaction with drinking water in the Pacific Northwest, USA; Development of innovative urban water efficiency systems and a four-legged education curriculum addressing water reduction, harvesting, reuse, and energy generation technologies; Non-drinking water self- sufficiency of residential buildings utilizing rainwater harvesting.
- Laboratory study on the rainfall influence over the sediment transport dynamics on pervious pavements' dischargeField evaluation of hydrological performance of a bioretention basin in an urban tropical catchment; Wet weather sewerage management in Korea; Section 2: Flood risk; Flood risk management for schools in the lowlands of Tokyo, Japan; Evaluation of flood risks using flood frequency models: a case study of Luvuvhu River Catchment in Limpopo Province, South Africa; A calamity of a severe nature: case study
- Chennai, India.
- New developments at the Flood Forecasting Centre: operations and flood risk guidanceProjection in Hilbert Space for flood forecasting of the Pomahaka River, New Zealand; The impacts of land cover change on stream discharges in Luvuvhu River Catchment, Vhembe District, Limpopo Province, South Africa; Hydraulic efficiency of road drainage inlets for storm drainage system under clogging effect; Possibilities of closing levee breaks in flood events from the German experience; Property level flood protection: technical insights of a new safety flood door.