This paper uses ‘Medieval’ drought conditions from the 12th Century to simulate the implications of severe and persistent drought for the future of water resource management in metropolitan Phoenix

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Sustainable Cities and Society, Volume 27, 1 November 2016

Water harvesting is an ancient practice that has been used, mainly in dry environments, to increase efficiency of water collection and use by directing water from a large natural watershed or man-m

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Sustainable Cities and Society, Volume 27, 1 November 2016

Shortages of freshwater have become a serious issue in many regions around the world, partly due to rapid urbanisation and climate change.

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Sustainable Cities and Society, Volume 27, 1 November 2016

The study of resilience in the face of large physical and climatic change has emerged as an important area of research.

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Sustainable Cities and Society, Volume 27, 1 November 2016

Water reuse networks have been emerging globally for the last 50 years. This article reviews the economic, social and environmental issues related to implementing water reuse networks in cities.

Increases in water treatment technology have made water recycling a viable engineering solution to water supply limitations.

World map of the 142 cities in the UrbMet database.

The sustainability of urban water systems is often compared in small numbers of cases selected as much for their familiarity as for their similarities and differences.

Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) infrastructure are conventionally designed based on historical climate data.

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International Encyclopedia of Public Health (Second Edition), 2017, Pages 350-360

This chapter advances SDG 6 by explaining a multidisciplinary approach to drinking water from a public health perspective and how it is important as poverty, with its associated unsanitary living conditions and lack of access to water, proper nutrition, health care, and education, is the overwhelming determinant of infection and malnutrition.
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International Encyclopedia of Public Health (Second Edition), 2017, Pages 148-158

This chapter advances SDG 6 by summarizing water contaminants (that have been included in current promulgated regulations) and emerging agents (that have been considered as contaminant candidates which may require further regulation), current regulations, and treatment options.

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