Special Issue "Nature-Based Solutions for Rainwater Management in the Urban Environment"

A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Water Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 March 2023) | Viewed by 1185

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Department of Civil, Chemical and Environmental Engineering (DICCA), University of Genova, 1 Montallegro, 16145 Genova GE, Italy
Interests: hydrology; precipitation; measurement; green roofs; nature-based solutions; sustainable urban drainage
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Department of Civil, Chemical and Environmental Engineering (DICCA), University of Genova, 1 Montallegro, 16145 Genova GE, Italy
Interests: hydrology; precipitation; measurement; green roofs; nature based solutions; sustainable urban drainage

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Dear Colleagues,

Nature-based solutions (NBS) used in sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS) exploit natural techniques to control runoff formation. They are based on the restoration of fundamental hydrological processes (interception, evapotranspiration, and infiltration) that are compromised or strongly limited in the urban areas, with resulting critical conditions in urban drainage networks, pluvial floodings, and the pollution of the receiving water bodies. NBSs are also useful to increase rainwater harvesting and to control thermal energy fluxes in indoor and outdoor urban areas.

Research is still needed to define and quantify suitable performance indicators to assess the effect of the NBS on the resilience of modern cities, especially in areas where the rainfall climatology is most challenging, being characterized by short-duration high-intensity events separated by long dry periods.

We welcome research contributions employing experimental and numerical/analytical methods, the former based for instance on the verification of the hydraulic and hydrological performance of different NBSs on dedicated laboratory testbeds and/or field installations, the latter based on rainfall–runoff models and on numerical simulations of the hydraulic behavior of urban drainage solutions.

Prof. Dr. Luca Giovanni Lanza
Dr. Arianna Cauteruccio
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • urban hydrology
  • nature-based solutions
  • sustainable urban drainage
  • resilient cities
  • stormwater management
  • low impact development
  • green roofs
  • rainwater harvesting

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Rainwater Harvesting for Urban Landscape Irrigation Using a Soil Water Depletion Algorithm Conditional on Daily Precipitation
Water 2022, 14(21), 3468; https://doi.org/10.3390/w14213468 - 30 Oct 2022
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The supply of various non-potable water usages based on the harvesting and management of rainwater in urban areas allows to save high-quality water resources for strictly potable use and to limit the squandering of precious freshwater resources. A rainwater harvesting system included in [...] Read more.
The supply of various non-potable water usages based on the harvesting and management of rainwater in urban areas allows to save high-quality water resources for strictly potable use and to limit the squandering of precious freshwater resources. A rainwater harvesting system included in a reconversion project of a former military area located in the town of Genova (Italy) is examined. Rainwater is collected and used for the landscape irrigation of public areas. Three rainwater collection scenarios are considered while varying the size of the storage tank, using daily rainfall data from a local long-term record as the reference rainfall climatology. A behavioural model is adopted to simulate the operation of the rainwater harvesting system and improved with a dedicated algorithm to account for the actual soil water availability for the vegetation and its temporal decay, based on the specific soil type and vegetation. For each scenario/tank size combination, reliability indices are calculated and compared, while the detention time and the annual usage volume per unit tank capacity are used as indicators of water quality deterioration in the tank and the economic benefit associated with the exploitation of the resource. The best solution in terms of rainwater collection scenario and tank size is identified. Full article
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