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Water Sensitive Design for Recycling and Treatment of Urban Water
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Water Sensitive Design for Recycling and Treatment of Urban Water

A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Wastewater Treatment and Reuse".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 December 2022) | Viewed by 5494

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Dr. Rupak Aryal

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School of Engineering, La Trobe University, Flora Hill Bendigo, Melbourne, VIC 3552, Australia
Interests: urban water monitoring and modelling; water sensitive urban design; water quality; water treatment technology; extreme rainfall and climate change
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Dear Colleagues,

Urban water management is a key issue with a growing urban population and urban catchment changes. These factors cause urban water management issues including runoff management, groundwater recharge, peak flow reduction, water quality issues, development and adoption of various water sensitive urban design (WSUD), and water recycling and reuse.

This Special Issue covers a wide range of topics such as urban stormwater monitoring, modelling, urban flood, urban pollution and challenges, technologies adoption including WSUD and sensors, recycling, reuse, and management.

Dr. Rupak Aryal
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Rainfall–runoff
  • Urban flood
  • Water recycling and reuse
  • Water sensitive urban design
  • Urban water quality issues
  • Urban water management
  • Urban water monitoring and modelling

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Evaporative Cooling Effect of Water-Sensitive Urban Design: Comparing a Living Wall with a Porous Concrete Pavement System
by Rosmina A. Bustami, Simon Beecham and James Hopeward
Water 2022, 14(22), 3759; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/w14223759 - 18 Nov 2022
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Living walls are becoming a widely used water-sensitive urban design technology that can deliver various economic, social and environmental benefits. One such benefit is to cool the surrounding environment through the process of evapotranspiration. This study measured the evapotranspiration from an instrumented prototype-scale [...] Read more.
Living walls are becoming a widely used water-sensitive urban design technology that can deliver various economic, social and environmental benefits. One such benefit is to cool the surrounding environment through the process of evapotranspiration. This study measured the evapotranspiration from an instrumented prototype-scale living wall and calculated the resulting evaporative cooling effect. The range of the measured evapotranspiration rates from the living wall was from 41 to 90 mL/mm per plant pot. This equated to latent heat of vaporisation values from 171 to 383 MJ/month/m2. This was then compared with the performance of a non-vegetated water-sensitive urban design technology, namely, a porous concrete pavement. For a typical summer month in a warm temperate climate, it was found that a porous concrete pavement system only had between 4 and 15% of the cooling effect of an equivalent living wall. Full article
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Evaluating the Field Performance of Permeable Concrete Pavers
by Nam P. T. Nguyen, Albert Sultana, Nathaporn Areerachakul and Jaya Kandasamy
Water 2022, 14(14), 2143; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/w14142143 - 06 Jul 2022
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The benefits of using permeable interlocking concrete pavement systems (PICPs) have not translated into widespread adoption in Australia, where their uptake has been slow. This paper communicates the actual performance of PICPs installed in the field by providing evidence of their long-term efficiency. [...] Read more.
The benefits of using permeable interlocking concrete pavement systems (PICPs) have not translated into widespread adoption in Australia, where their uptake has been slow. This paper communicates the actual performance of PICPs installed in the field by providing evidence of their long-term efficiency. There are currently no Australian standards for design, specification and installation of PICPs. In this study, field measurements were conducted to determine the infiltration capacity of PICPs in Sydney and Wollongong, New South Wales, applying the single ring infiltrometer test (SRIT) and the stormwater infiltration field test (SWIFT). A strong correlation was found between the results of the two tests in a previous study, which was verified in this study. The long-term performance of PICPs is demonstrated by their high infiltration rates (ranging from 125 mm/h to 25,000 mm/h) measured in this study at field sites under a diverse range of conditions. The influences of conditions such as age of installation, slope and tree cover on infiltration rates were explored. Full article
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