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This book examines the nature of contemporary water management and the prospects for and barriers to different forms of engagement with the public.

Municipal water supply --- Water quality management. --- Urban hydrology. --- Management.

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Water is an essential element in the future of cities. It shapes cities' locations, form, ecology, prosperity and health. The changing nature of urbanisation, climate change, water scarcity, environmental values, globalisation and social justice mean that the models of provision of water services and infrastructure that have dominated for the past two centuries are increasingly infeasible. Conventional arrangements for understanding and managing water in cities are being subverted by a range of natural, technological, political, economic and social changes. The prognosis for water in cities remains unclear, and multiple visions and discourses are emerging to fill the space left by the certainty of nineteenth century urban water planning and engineering. This book documents a sample of those different trajectories, in terms of water transformations, option, services and politics. Water is a key element shaping urban form, economies and lifestyles, part of the ongoing transformation of cities. Cities are faced with a range of technical and policy options for future water systems. Water is an essential urban service, but models of provision remain highly contested with different visions for ownership of infrastructure, the scale of provision, and the level of service demanded by users. Water is a contentious political issue in the future of cities, serving different urban interests as power and water seem to flow in the same direction. Cities in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and South America provide case studies and emerging water challenges and responses. Comparison across different contexts demonstrates how the particular and the universal intersect in complex ways to generate new trajectories for urban water. [Publisher]

Municipal water supply --- Urban landscape architecture --- City planning. --- Approvisionnement urbain en eau. --- Paysage urbain --- Design urbain.

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Water security --- Human security --- Drought management --- Water-supply --- Municipal water supply --- Urban sanitation --- Drinking water --- Government policy --- Water supply. Water treatment. Water pollution --- Potable water --- Tap water --- Beverages --- Fresh water --- Municipal sanitation --- Sanitation --- Cities and towns --- Urban water --- Water, Municipal --- Water, Urban --- Municipal engineering --- Availability, Water --- Water availability --- Water resources --- Natural resources --- Public utilities --- Water resources development --- Water utilities --- Management of droughts --- Hazard mitigation --- Non-traditional security (Human security) --- NTS (Human security) --- Security, Human --- Human rights --- Security, Water

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Water is an essential element in the future of cities. It shapes cities’ locations, form, ecology, prosperity and health. The changing nature of urbanisation, climate change, water scarcity, environmental values, globalisation and social justice mean that the models of provision of water services and infrastructure that have dominated for the past two centuries are increasingly infeasible. Conventional arrangements for understanding and managing water in cities are being subverted by a range of natural, technological, political, economic and social changes. The prognosis for water in cities remains unclear, and multiple visions and discourses are emerging to fill the space left by the certainty of nineteenth century urban water planning and engineering. This book documents a sample of those different trajectories, in terms of water transformations, option, services and politics. Water is a key element shaping urban form, economies and lifestyles, part of the ongoing transformation of cities. Cities are faced with a range of technical and policy options for future water systems. Water is an essential urban service, but models of provision remain highly contested with different visions for ownership of infrastructure, the scale of provision, and the level of service demanded by users. Water is a contentious political issue in the future of cities, serving different urban interests as power and water seem to flow in the same direction. Cities in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and South America provide case studies and emerging water challenges and responses. Comparison across different contexts demonstrates how the particular and the universal intersect in complex ways to generate new trajectories for urban water.

Geography. --- Environmental management. --- Regional planning. --- Urban planning. --- City planning. --- Urban ecology (Biology). --- Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning. --- Urbanism. --- Urban Ecology. --- Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management. --- Municipal water supply --- Water resources development --- Law and legislation. --- Environmental aspects. --- Cities and towns --- City ecology (Biology) --- Ecology --- City planning --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Regional development --- State planning --- Human settlements --- Landscape protection --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Cosmography --- Earth sciences --- World history --- Environmental aspects --- Government policy --- Environmental protection --- Architecture. --- Urban ecology --- Urban environment --- Social ecology --- Sociology, Urban --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Design and construction