Enhancing Planning in the Management Urban Water Systems to Increase Resilience

Dear Colleagues,

Urban water infrastructures are vital to cities. They are complex and vulnerable to climate events (e.g., extreme precipitation events, tidal effects, droughts, and heat waves) and other disruptive events (e.g., earthquakes, tsunamis, urban floods, and cyclones). Enhancing the resilience of urban water infrastructures through new approaches for planning management of drinking water systems, wastewater, and stormwater systems is crucial for the future sustainability of these essential urban services.

With aging infrastructures and the need to improve water resources and energy efficiency while reducing the vulnerability to several uncertain events, urban water systems planning needs to be improved. The impact of a paradigm shift on resilience (e.g., decentralized solutions, the coexistence of multiple sources and networks of water for potable and non-potable uses, use of nature-based solutions) needs to be appropriately assessed in the planning process, as well as incorporation of uncertainty. This process involves proposing and demonstrating comprehensive approaches for the diagnosis, identification, and decision making for improvement measures, implementation, monitoring and revision relative to traditional techniques. Therefore, for this Special Issue, robust and well-tested methods that support the different stages of the planning process to improve resilience are of particular interest. Moreover, new approaches for scenario building and uncertainty modeling are fundamental to the planning process for resilience improvement, and straightforward methods will be appreciated.

Dr. Dália Cruz Loureiro
Dr. Maria Adriana Cardoso
Guest Editors

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