Urban Hydraulics: Water Supply and Wastewater Discharge Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Water supply and wastewater systems are vital infrastructures for the well-being of communities. However, in a rapidly changing and increasingly demanding world, these infrastructures are facing new challenges like climate change effects, water scarcity problems, environmental impacts, demographic changes, migrations, or terrorism threats (physical or cyber-attacks).

On the other hand, ageing assets impose a new paradigm: the major focus is no longer the planning and design of new infrastructures, but the management of existing ones.

This context forces us to make good use of new and/or improved technologies and more than ever to bridge the gap between scientific knowledge and common practice.

Modeling and optimization (single- or multi-objective, multi-criteria analysis, decision support systems) are still evolving and will continue to be crucial tools. New low-cost sensors, control devices, and communication networks/protocols (IoT), in real time, will provide enormous quantities of data (big data) to be processed and used and to remotely control the systems. Uncertainty analysis methods will be a must; the role of artificial intelligence will continue to grow; etc.

There is much to be done, but it is the only way to achieve good service levels and assure systems’ sustainability. It is our mission to put knowledge at the service of this global cause—the world is counting on us.

Dr. Joaquim Sousa
Guest Editor

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• water supply
• wastewater
• modeling
• optimization
• IoT
• big data
• uncertainty
• artificial intelligence
• sustainability