Focuses on the effects of the increasing urbanization, and, accordingly, the increasing number of urban dwellers and the consequences for the urban water cycle. This title also elaborates on the effects, impact and management strategies to better prepare the city for the increasing urbanization.
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 UNESCOs 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.
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 riskthe 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
Jimenez Cisneros\, Blanca; Rose\, Joan B.
