Urban Water
Volume • Issue
- ISSN: 1462-0758
AIMS AND SCOPE Urban Water aims to provide a forum for the research and professional communities dealing with water-related and water-based systems in the urban environment. P… Read more
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Urban Water aims to provide a forum for the research and professional communities dealing with water-related and water-based systems in the urban environment. Particular emphasis is placed on defining the practical outcomes of sustainable development and on documenting and analysing the mutual interrelationships and interactions between the individual water systems and urban water bodies (including groundwater). The journal encourages the increasing importance of integrated approaches to solve the numerous pressing problems in urban water engineering.
Most of the current water, environmental and infrastructure journals cover some aspects of the urban water scene. However, none of them are solely dedicated to this fast growing topic and none emphasise the importance of integration and interrelationships, considering urban water as an entity with all its internal and external interactions. In this respect, the journal aims at filling a gap in the provision of international, scientific and professional journals.
The journal focuses on the water-based infrastructure in the city; namely potable water, sewerage and drainage. Also included are the network peripheries; the customer/consumer, point-of-use and point-of-discharge technologies (e.g. recycling, source controls) and the end-of-pipe treatment systems for potable and wastewater where they relate to and interact with their respective networks. Further, the impact of the networks on the water environment (water resources, groundwater, and watercourses) and vice versa is included. Papers discussing issues of utilisation of groundwater aquifers for urban areas are particularly appreciated. Additionally, papers concerned with water planning (including the interactions of urban water amenities with city planning and landscaping), design, analysis, informatic support (GIS/CAD), operational management and associated economics are all welcome. A strong emphasis is placed on data needs, data acquisition and processing, quantification of uncertainty and assurance of data quality and robustness.
The overarching issues and developments in "sustainability" find a natural home in Urban Water too, especially those related and applied to urban water supply and sanitation. Papers dealing with new, alternative or unconventional solutions for rehabilitation of aged systems and with appropriate technologies for developing countries are welcomed. Also included are the urban water issues associated with socio-economic and resources management in developing countries. Space is provided too for papers dealing with education and vocational training of specialists in urban water.
An associated aim of Urban Water is to foster and encourage the development and dissemination of urban water educational software and data relevant to the papers published. Thus up-to-date and reliable digital information, tools and methodologies can be rapidly made available to the international scientific, educational and professional community.
The readership as well as authorship will consist of international specialists in civil, water and environmental engineering, other relevant engineering disciplines and urban planning. Other disciplines include environmental chemistry, biology and toxicology and many others. The journal will reach professionals working in universities, research organisations, software houses, consulting companies, water utilities and governmental bodies.
International organisations concerned with water management and policy, as well as non-governmental organisations involved in scientific, professional and public awareness raising issues will find Urban Water suitable both for publishing their findings and to provide access to up-to-date knowledge and global trends.
- ISSN: 1462-0758