Description
Book SynopsisUnderstanding 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 â the result of a project by UNESCOâs International Hydrological Programme on the topic â 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
Table of Contents
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 risk—the 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
