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Global population growth is urban growth and, therefore, most of the water-related challenges and solutions reside in cities. Unless water management and water governance processes are significantly improved within the next decade or so, cities are likely to face serious and prolonged water insecurity, urban floods, and/or heat stress, which may result in social instability and, ultimately, massive migration. Aging water infrastructure, one of the most expensive infrastructures in cities, is a relevant challenge in order to address Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6: clean water and sanitation, SDG 11: sustainable cities and communities, and SDG 13: climate action. The choice of good governance arrangements has important consequences for economic performance, for the well-being of citizens, and for the quality of life in urban areas. The better governance arrangements work in coordinating policies across jurisdictions and policy fields, the better the outcomes. Rapidly-changing global conditions will make future water governance more complex than ever before in human history, and expectations are that water governance and water management will change more during the next 20 years compared to the past 100 years. In this Special Issue of Water, the focus will be on practical concepts and tools for water management and water governance, with a focus on cities.

flood resilience --- flood risk --- Cape Town --- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) --- sustainable development goals --- urban planning --- coordination --- IHP --- storm water management --- stakeholder involvement --- flood risk management --- water management sustainability --- Generalized Likelihood Uncertainty Estimation (GLUE) --- climate change --- urban water cycle --- wastewater management --- water policy --- governance capacity --- greenhouse gas emissions --- intergovernmental --- Urban Water Management Programme --- indicators --- sustainability --- city networks --- water sensitive cities --- water scarcity --- ICLEI --- flood damage assessment --- stakeholder participation --- SuDS --- climate change mitigation --- social network analysis --- water ecology --- SDGs --- urban resilience --- design rainfall event --- cost of inaction --- rainwater harvesting --- co-design --- UNESCO --- rainfall-runoff --- storm water control measure --- decentralized water reclamation with resource recovery --- baseline assessment --- City Blueprint Approach --- urban water management --- urban landscape --- governance strategies --- science and technology --- drinking water --- Integrated Water Resources Management --- resilience --- Sponge City --- stormwater reservoir --- use-attainment --- sustainability assessment --- water security --- Water-Energy-Food Nexus --- water management --- water supply --- Storm Water Management Model (SWMM) --- urban drainage --- lifecycle analysis --- social infrastructure --- urban pluvial flooding --- assessment framework --- footprint --- climate change adaptation --- infrastructure --- total cost of ownership --- water governance --- flood control --- water-reuse --- governance

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The rapid urbanization, sometimes lacking adequate planning and design, has led to worsening city syndrome situations, such as urban flooding, water pollution, heat island effects, and ecologic deterioration. Sponge city construction have become the new paradigm for a sustainable urban stormwater management strategy. Deviating from the traditional rapid draining approach, the new paradigm calls for the use of natural systems, such as soil and vegetation, as part of the urban runoff control strategy. It has become a widespread focus in urban water management research and practices globally. In this Special Issue reprint, there are 13 original scientific articles that address the different related urban runoff control issues. We are happy to see that all papers presented findings characterized as innovative and methodologically new. We hope that the readers can enjoy and learn deeply about urban runoff control and sponge city construction using the published material, and we hope that sharing of the researches results with the scientific community, policymakers and stakeholders can prompt the urban runoff control and sponge city construction globally.

urban runoff remediation --- Talipariti tiliaceum --- modular bioretention tree --- field study --- tree-pit --- Green-Ampt method --- infiltration --- overland flow --- urban flood modelling --- 1D/2D coupled modelling --- dual drainage modelling --- extreme rainfall --- flooding --- safety criteria --- urban drainage --- uncertainty --- combined sewer overflows --- optimization --- SWMM --- NSGA-III --- sponge city --- bioretention facility --- rain infiltration --- slope stability --- urban water management --- drainage function --- permeable pavement --- biological retention --- control-oriented model --- urban drainage system --- real-time optimization --- Simuwater --- Sponge City --- aquifer recharge --- urban stormwater --- green infrastructure --- low impact development --- Sustainable Development Goals --- non-point source pollution --- enhanced dephosphorization bioretention --- modified bioretention facility --- road stormwater runoff --- combined soil filter media --- soil moisture conservation rope --- microbial diversity --- urban stormwater runoff management --- field monitoring --- ABC Waters design features --- water quality --- bioretention --- swales --- low-impact development --- pilot exploration --- systematic demonstration --- construction scale --- stakeholders --- multifunctional decision-making framework --- cost-effectiveness --- site suitability --- stakeholders’ preference --- n/a --- stakeholders' preference

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This book is a hard copy of the editorial and all the papers in a Special Issue of the peer-reviewed open access journal ‘Water’ on the theme ‘Managed Aquifer Recharge for Water Resilience’. Managed aquifer recharge (MAR) is the purposeful recharge of water to aquifers for subsequent recovery or environmental benefit. MAR is increasingly used to make water supplies resilient to drought, climate change and deteriorating water quality, and to protect ecosystems from declining groundwater levels. Global MAR has grown exponentially to 10 cu.km/year and will increase ten-fold within a few decades. Well informed hydrogeologists, engineers and water quality scientists are needed to ensure that this investment is effective in meeting increasingly pressing needs. This compilation contains lessons from many examples of existing projects, including several national and continental summaries. It also addresses the elements essential for identifying and advancing projects such as mapping aquifer suitability and opportunities, policy matters, operational issues, and some innovations in MAR methods and monitoring. This collection exemplifies the state of progress in the science and practice of MAR and is intended to be useful, at least to water managers, water utilities, agricultural water users and urban planners, to facilitate water resilience through new MAR projects.

ASR --- recycled water --- well clogging --- geochemical analysis --- filtration --- biofouling --- risk management --- Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) --- aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) --- strategic storage --- Northern Australia --- Managed Aquifer Recharge --- MAR --- climate change --- water management --- IWRM --- adaptation measures --- indicators --- Spain --- groundwater --- mapping --- Sweden --- decision-support --- riverbank filtration --- pharmaceuticals in groundwater --- removal of pharmaceuticals --- managed aquifer recharge --- web GIS --- web tools --- multi-criteria decision analysis --- suitability mapping --- anthropic forcing --- meteorological forcing --- lake bank filtration --- mixing ratios --- environmental tracer --- time-varying mixing model --- sensitivity analysis --- Ulaanbaatar --- MATLAB --- FEFLOW --- artificial recharging scenarios --- Mexico --- legal --- regulatory --- framework --- LAN (Law of the Nation’s Waters) --- reclaimed water --- arid --- semi-arid --- environment protection --- health protection --- safety --- risk --- ecosystems --- contaminants --- recycling --- drinking water --- regulation --- governance --- SAT --- tillage --- infiltration pond --- infiltration rate --- soil compaction --- types of MAR for irrigation --- Yellow River Irrigation District --- adaptability zoning evaluation --- online flow-cytometry --- enzymatic activity --- ultrafiltration --- ATP --- managed aquifer recharge (MAR) --- induced bank filtration (IBF) --- geographic information science (GISc) --- geographic information systems (GIS) --- drinking water supply --- guidelines --- climate adaptation --- stream temperature --- streamflow --- Henry’s Fork --- fisheries --- Snake River --- Idaho --- water rights --- infiltration basin --- cost function --- suitability map --- GIS-MCDA --- water supply security model --- risk assessment --- decision support --- dynamic --- probabilistic --- integrated water resource management --- organic amendments --- contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) --- pathogens --- new water challenges --- Underground Transfer of Floods for Irrigation --- droughts --- floods --- groundwater depletion --- groundwater recharge --- water quality --- water level monitoring --- recharge performance --- rainwater harvesting --- India --- water security --- urban water management --- semiarid --- Social Technology --- developing countries --- Africa --- water banking --- water crisis