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Overall performance evaluation of an urban water supply system

Hydrology and Hydraulics of Urban Floodplains (Dr. Bledsoe)

A Clustered, Decentralized Approach to Urban Water Management

The cost of alternative urban water supply and efficiency options in California

Water Pollution - Study Lesson 4

Water Sources and their Characteristics - Study Lesson 3 Open Learning

Water and Public Health - Open Learning

Introduction to Urban Water Supply - open learning

World Cities Day: AI Empowers Urban Wastewater Treatment in China (Video)

New Tool Provides Critical Information for Addressing the Global Water Crisis

More than 70 Million Brazilians May Face Water Shortages by 2035

Massive SF Recycling Project to Save 30 Million Gallons of Drinking Water per Year

TU Delft: Urban Water Management in Amsterdam (Video)

Study: U.S. Costal Communities Face More Than $400 Billion in Seawall Costs by 2040

New York is Building a Wall to Hold Back the Ocean (Video)

Floating Cities as a Viable Solution to Urban Challenges Such as Climate Change

Smart Use of Water and Energy in Urban Areas to Advance Resilience and Infrastructure

New Research Shows Challenges of ‘Upward’ and ‘Outward’ Urban Expansion in Unprecedented Detail

European Commission Sues Italy Over Air Pollution And Failure To Properly Treat Urban Waste Water

LA Plans To Recycle 100% Of Its Wastewater By 2035

Veolia to Connect 3 Million Smart Water Meters in France

Restoring Rio de Janeiro’s Forests Could Save $79 Million in Water Treatment Costs

Water Management in Urban Areas: How Cedar Rapids Fights Heavy Rains

Kemira Calls for Tougher Implementation of EU Water Treatment Legislation

Building Water-Efficient Cities Requires Collaboration

The Rise of the Machines (in managing water)

Leading Water Utilities Reducing Water-Energy Nexus Pressures

Stormwater Harvesting Greening Melbourne

How the Urban ​Nexus will Make ​Your City More ​Resource Efficient

Lessons from Cities that Plan for Their Rivers

Cutting the Water-Energy Nexus Down Under

Germany’s 2022 Circular Economy

San Francisco Keeping its Water Local

App Tracks Urban Water and Energy Consumption

Join Our ​Future Water in ​Berlin

Protecting the Source of Our Precious Water

Customized Water for Industry

Water-Efficient Urban Farms Sprouting Up

Energy Crops and Food Waste Powering a Water Utility

Innovative Solutions to Water Scarcity in England

Developing Alternative Water Supplies

Singapore’s robotic swans testing water quality

Europe’s New Water

Mark and Focus Vol 1 Issue 1

The Water-Energy Nexus in Athens

Fit for Purpose Recycled Water in Australia

Our Future Water Berlin Event: Early Bird Tickets on sale now

NYC’s Big Water Savings Goal

Stockholm Turning Wastewater into Resourcewater

Pakistan's City with No Water | Short Movie by Unreported World

San Francisco’s Green-Grey Infrastructure

Hamburg Wasser Keeping Polar Bears Cool

Witwatersand ​University ​Presents: ​Lessons from ​Cape Town’​s Water ​Shortage

Scotland’s Wastewater-to-Heat Initiative

How Much Sewage and Stormwater NY Releases into Environment Every Year?

How a City ​That Floods is ​Running Out of ​Water ​- BBC Gallery

NYC’s Green Infrastructure Expansion

LA’s Stormwater Key to Water Security

Inequities in Household Water Consumption in Kathmandu

Counting Down to ‘Day Zero’: Like Cape Town, Many Indian Cities are Fast Running out of Water

Imminent Forest Collapse Threatens Melbourne’s Water Supply

Measuring Urban Water Security in Singapore and HongKong

Joburg saves millions of litres of water using low-flush cisterns

Sustainability Victoria’s Smart Grants Boosting the Circular Economy

Australia’s Most Water-Efficient Housing Development

Hong Kong’s Futuristic Waste-to-Energy Facility

Building a Climate Resilient, Blue-Green Oslo

Water Sensitive Farming Keeping Drinking Water Pure

With a Green Makeover, Philadelphia Is Tackling Its Stormwater Problem

Building Green Cities

Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Would Help Spare Cities Worldwide from Rising Seas

Melbourne Water Harnessing Renewable Energy

World’s Largest Cities Depend on Evaporated Water from Surrounding Lands

Studies Show Urbanization Impacts Storms, Rainfall Despite Surroundings

The Circular Water Economy: Capturing Every Drop

Green Spaces in Cities Help Control Floods, Store Carbon

Vancouver Puts New Focus on Rainwater Management

Sustainable City Project Wins 1.6 Million Euro Funding

WaterHack18: Beer Made From Recycled Water Saving the World

UCLA Study Presents L.A. with a Path to Independence from Imported Water

Mark and Focus Vol 1 issue 1

How All Perth's Sewage Could be Turned into Drinking Water

Singapore Must Ensure Adequate Water Supply to Meet Growing Needs by 2050s: Chan Chun Sing

Call for Papers for Special Issue on “Water Security”

New York City Embracing Future Water Challenges

UNESCO Demonstrates Multi-pronged Approach to Resilient Cities

PSU Study Finds Rural Ranchers Face Less Access to Water During Drought Than Urban Counterparts

Cutting the Urbanization-Water Link

The 11 Cities Most Likely to Run Out of Drinking Water

Young Water Leaders Berlin Event Nov 7, 2018

Delivering Urban Resilience - A Financial Case for Green Urban Infrastructure

U.S. Cities Can Save Billions With Green, Resilient Design, Says Report

The Green Building Blocks of Cities

Ecological Functioning of Urban Waterways

Abu Dhabi Invites Bids for Water Desalination Plant

Waste In, Resources Out

Port of ​Rotterdam to ​Become Major ​Smart City with ​IBM’s ​Help

ASU Center Director Addresses Cape Town's Water Apocalypse

36 Percent Of South Africa's Water Is Lost Unnecessarily

Networking Urban Water to Adapt to a Changing Climate

BIG Unveils Scheme to Offer Flood Protection in San Francisco's Islais Creek

Adding Protective Barriers Around Street Trees Could Reduce Load on City Sewers

Building a Resilient Future: One Drop At a Time

Water-Secure Future for Cities

Cape Town Slashes Water Use Amid Drought

20% More Trees in Megacities Would Mean Cleaner Air and Water

Aclara and Suez to Provide Smart Infrastructure Solutions to U.S. Municipalities

Wastewater: A Trifecta of Resources

Miami Beach Becomes First City to Adopt Sustainable, Smart Water Stations

Tax Hike Aside, Upgrade to Montreal's Water System Sorely Needed

Software Shows Potential Impact of Rising Sea Levels on US Cities

Iowa Cities Struggle To Keep Farm Pollution Out of Tap Water - Case Study

For the First Time, A Major Coastal City May Run Out of Water

In Urban Streams, Pharmaceutical Pollution is Driving Microbial Resistance

How Cities Can Reduce the Urban-Water-Food Nexus

How the Sun Might Help Quench Gulf Arabs' Thirst

'Raw water' is the Latest Health Craze. But it May Be a Bad Idea.

Auckland's Polluted Beaches: The Five Big Questions

China's 'Sponge Cities' Are Turning Streets Green To Combat Flooding

San Diego: From Worrying About Having Enough Water to What’s in it

Rooftop Solar and EVs Save Water and Cut Pollution – And Data Can Help Us Go Further

Natural Resource Management and the Circular Economy | Robert Brears | Palgrave Macmillan

Planted buildings: Is this the Future of Our Cities or Just an Eco-Fantasy?

A Flood-Proof ​Parking Garage ​That Rises as ​It Rains ​

Wastewater Treatment Plants Becoming Prosumers

Obama: Cities, States, Nonprofits New Climate Change Leaders

Researchers Find Urban Development Dramatically Increases Stream Flow

How to Build a City That Doesn’t Flood? Turn it Into a Sponge

More than 750,000 Kiwis Exposed to Potentially Unsafe Drinking Water

The Ambitious Plan to Stop the Ground From Sinking

Sydney Water Opens 'Customer Hub' to 1M Users

The Cities of Tomorrow Will Be Populated With "Bio Houses"

The Amazon Effect: How Deforestation is Starving São Paulo of Water

A Drone Inspecting Singapore’s Sewerage System

Tijuana Turns Wastewater Into Wine

Australian Capital City 'A River of Fire' - Who Would Want to Live There?

Uniting Major Cities for a Water-secure World

Ribbed Mussels Could Help Improve Urban Water Quality

PUB Guide to Help Non-Domestic Buildings Save Water

City of Cape Town Discloses Latest Data on Water Consumption

Futuristic Grey+Green Infrastructure in Copenhagen

City of Fremantle Readies AU$8m Energy and Water Blockchain Project

Cities and Water 2nd Architecture Biennale in Pisa | Floornature

Are IoT-Enabled Smart Meters the Next Step for Utility Providers?

City Launched $100 Incentive Program to Purchase Real-time Water Sensors

Life Cycle Thinking to Save Water in Buildings

Call for Submissions: Water-Energy Nexus Journal

Can a Rain Harvesting System Save Mexico City from Water Crises?

China Building 30 'Sponge Cities' That Soak Up Floodwater and Prevent Disaster

Saving Stormwater with a Veggie Raingarden

How Cool Roofs Contribute to Energy Efficiency in Commercial Buildings

Creating Water Efficient Businesses

RO Membrane Desalination to Provide Drinking Water for Underwater City?

Part I | Sustaining Waters, Sustainable Cities: Urban Climate Change and SDG Policy Solutions

The Three-Degree World: Cities that will be Drowned by Global Warming

Exploring 'Stillsuits' for Cities (VIDEO)

Boston Responds to Climate Change with Elevated Parks and Flood Barriers

South California Farmers Reap Millions Selling Water to Cities

How Cities are Defending Themselves Against Sea Level Rise

Cape Town City Manager Given Special Powers to Deal with Water Crisis

Cool Roofs Have Water Saving Benefits Too

SUEZ Supports Perth in Wastewater Reuse

Can 10 Entrepreneurs Solve Urban Water Issues?

New Plant to Boost Water Supply

San Diego Borrowing $1.7B for Ambitious Water Recycling Plan

U of M Secures Grant to Study Smart Infrastructure in Cities

NYC’s water-energy-carbon nexus

Cape Town Running out of Water by March 2018

Singapore to Install 10,000 Smart Showers to Boost Water Conservation

Opti's ​Anti Flooding ​System for Protection of Cities

NZ's Sinking City: Floods the New Reality of Life by the River

Here are the U.S. Cities Least Affected by Climate Change

50C Temperatures are Coming to Sydney and Melbourne

Alexa ​- What is My ​Water Bill?

USGS Partners with Four Cities to Improve Urban Waterways

Cape Town Addresses Drought, Climate Change with SA’s First True Green Bond

Smart Water Innovation Network in the City of Burgos

Future water utility: Wastewater is not waste

The Billion Dollar Pipe Future-proofing Auckland

A National Review of Innovative and Integrated Stormwater Management Initiatives

Hit with Lower Revenues, Napa to Pursue Higher Rates for City Water Service

Innovation in the Face of Water Scarcity

Urban Waste Dumping in Rivers Leading to Antibiotic Resistance

Green Economy: The WEF Nexus and Green Growth

Berlin’s Climate Neutral Action Plan

Green Roof Design which Stores More Rainwater and Needs Less Energy

How Smart Meters Can Save Water in Drought Ridden Cape Town

London Calling to Green Infrastructure

New Prepayment System is Connecting Piped Water to the Urban Poor

Lotus-inspired Public Space Collects Rainwater to Reduce Runoff Footprint

Customer-centric Water Utilities

Houston's Flood Is a Design Problem

Wellington's Emergency Water Supply Plans

High-resolution Modeling Assesses Impact of Cities on River Ecosystems

City’s Infrastructure, Not Population, Plays Greater Role in Eco Impact

LA’s Green Growth Plan in Action

Green Roofs ​for Stormwater ​Management

Cape Town Announces Water Resilience Plan

CH2M-developed Integrated Water Management Plan for Atlanta

Explore the First Volume of 'Water Security'

Affordable Lead Sensor for Home and City Water Lines

Scottish Water's Circular Economy Exploits

Urban Floods ​Intensifying, ​Countryside ​Drying Up ​

Using Deep Cold Coastal Seawater for Cooling

Building a Resilient NYC

Helsinki’s Cool Green Factor

Unleashing Tehran’s ‘Water Renaissance’

Rome And Other Italian Cities Are Running Dry

Building a Better, Stronger Sydney

Xylem ​Opens Pump ​Innovation ​Center in Italy

Smarter Cities Water Management

Building a Climate Ready Boston

Dutch ​Engineers ​Design 'Floating Mega-​Cities' To ​Fight Rising ​Sea Levels ​

Melbourne’s Water-efficient Future

How Stormwater Retention Paid Dividends for Three Sites

Masdar Nanotech Promises to Bring on the Rain

HafenCity: A Resilient European City on the Waterfront

Europe’s Green (Blue) Capital Crowned

MIT Leak Detection Robot for City Water Distribution Systems

Unique Flood Barrier That Can Be Set Up In Minutes

Transforming Toronto’s Future

Rotterdam Plans Major Water Improvements

How Perth’s Water Policy is Keeping Perth Green

Flood Barrier ​for Flood Protection in Urban Environments

Singapore’s Low-carbon, Efficient Future

Urban Water Engineering Project AquaCharge Earns Awards

Ontario Building a Low-carbon Future

Smart Water Innovation Network in the City of Burgos

The Green Economy and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus

Baltimore Uses Smart Meters to Transform Water Billing

A Smart Brussels Sprouts Up

The ​Importance of ​Green ​Infrastructure ​and Urban Water ​Management

A Climate-ready City One Drop at a Time

Transforming Water-Scarce Cities into Water-Secure Cities

Practical Solutions to Increase Resilience of the World’s Cities

Pure Water, Pure Gold for San Diego

Urban Surface Water Management Solutions

Stockholm’s World-class Waste Solutions

Digital ​Dashboard ​Could Make Cities’​ Power & Water ​Smarter

Performance of Water Utilities in Africa

Rainwater Harvesting Could Solve Mexico City's Water Issues

A Future-proof Wastewater Resource Plant

Urban Water Atlas for Europe: Water Management in Cities

Sydney’s Water Blueprint

Dutch Scientsts Concerned About Coastal Flood Risks

Intelligent ​Watering System ​for Urban ​Gardeners

Why Smart Cities Are Turning Themselves Into Sponges

Are Cities on Track to Achieve the SDGs by 2030?

Building the Sustainable Megacity of the Future

A Blue and Green Hong Kong

Blue and Green Cities

European Commission Seeks Cities’ Advice on Water Strategy

Africa’s Leading Water Utility Streets Ahead

A Green Infrastructure Guidebook for City Planners

Urban Snow Contains a Toxic Cocktail of Pollutants

What are ​Dominant ​Sources of Urban Water Pollution?

Food Trade Drains Global Water Sources at 'Alarming' Rates

Daytona ​Explores ​Turning ​Wastewater into ​Drinking ​Water

New Index Offers Snapshot of Global Water Security

Creating a Green Skyline

Lima's ​Master Plan for ​Water and Green ​Infrastructure

IoT And Smart Cities Can Help Meeting SD Goals

Ontario’s Drive to Cut Building Emissions

Smart Cities and Smart Sewers

PPPs Funding New Water Infrastructure

Amsterdam Is Flooding, On Purpose

Making a Net Zero Carbon Economy

Urban Flood Information Video

'Urban Living' Ideas With Commercial Potential

Mexico City, Parched and Sinking, Faces a Water Crisis

Wastewater Becomes Resourcewater

Designing Smart Urban Water Systems (TEDx Talk)

IoT and Smart Cities: Meeting Sustainable Development Goals

5 Smart Tech Solutions to Water Challenges Around the World

Strategies for Greening the Skyline

Collaboration Brings New IoT Possibilities to Smart Cities and Utilities

Talking Water Security with XPrize's Zenia Tata

How We Can Better Plan Our Cities to Utilize Stormwater

10 Municipalities That May be the Next Smartest City in the US

The Circular Economy and the Water World

New York City Is Building for a Future of Flooding

Cities Must Smarten up to Save Energy

Green Infrastructure Key to Solving 21st Century Water Crises

Smart City, Smarter Water Management

How to Restore an Urban River? L.A. Looks to Find Out

NEWater Opens 5th Plant, Meets 40% of Singapore's Water Needs

How Seattle Wants to Avoid Becoming a 'Dumb Smart City'

Smart Cities Building Infrastructures for the 23rd Century

‘The Sustainable City’ to be First Net-zero-energy Community

Green Infrastructure Key to Solving 21st Century Water Crises

Green Infrastructure Boosts Resilience & Restores Water Quality

How a Smart City Tackles Rainfall

The Solution to California's Droughts Could Be Drinking Seawater

How to avert an urban drought in Asia

Laura Tam on Creating Resilient Cities

Filmmakers Envision the Future of Cities

California Floods Its Fields to Keep Its Cities From Flooding

TEDx Talk - The Reality of Water

Smart City Tech Growing in the U.S.

Our Cities Are Getting Smarter And You Probably Didn’t Even Notice

New Book Out: Urban Water Security

5 Vertical Integration Opportunities For Smart Water & Smart Cities

Smart Green Infrastructure Monitoring Project in Chicago

Growing Megacities Will Displace Vast Tracts of Farmland

Sydney Water Becoming a Utility of the Future

Las Vegas Now Runs Completely On Renewable Energy

5 Ways Cities Are Standing Up To Climate Change

Artificial Trees and Vertical Farms Helping Turn Europe’s Cities Green

The Ultimate Map of New York City's Street Trees

How to Generate Resources from Urban Wastewater

Five Vertical Integration Opportunities for Smart Water and Smart Cities

Modern Skyscrapers Are Green and Sustainable

With Texas Building Boom Comes Higher Flood Risk

The Village That Just Wants to Share

Why Toronto's Urban Forest is a Critical Infrastructure Asset

California’s New Water Conservation Plan Focuses on Cities

6 Futuristic Design Concepts That Could Create a 'Wasteless' Society

How Rotterdam Became A World Leader In Sustainable Urban Design

Water Recycling May Prompt New Environmental Concerns

Changes in Landscapes and Buildings Could Help Fight Flooding

Nation's Largest 'Urban Forest' Park Coming To Texas

Dear City Slickers, Farmers Have Had Enough of Your Urban Sprawl

Cities and Experimentation are Central to Water Sustainability

Cities Are Bracing for the Future by Getting Smart

Water Sensitive Urban Design: Success or Failure?

Will Florida Have Enough Water by 2070?

London SMEs Offered ‘Circular Economy’ Support

Sustainable Buildings with Urban Farms and Recycled Greywater

Melbourne Food Bowl Under Increasing Pressure Urban Sprawl Increases

Winners Of IBM SmartCamp For Smart City 2016 Challenge

Bolivia Schools Close Early as Drought Empties Reservoirs

Are Smart Cities Just a Utopian Fantasy?

ESA Releases Map of Europe’s Urban Footprint

Renewable Energy In Cities - IRENA Report

The Digital Revolution Needs to be Steered by Humans

How Asian Megacities Can Power Human Development

Why Today’s Cities Need to Get Smart with Data

Greening the Grey with Green Infrastructure

New Tool for Measuring Urban Resilience

Creating a Water-secure Future for Cities

How Does Your Suburb Rate? Sydney's Disaster Risk Hotspots

'Water Control Room' in Brisbane, Australia

Can urban farms feed our cities?

Combining Water Infrastructure with Architecture to Redesign Cities

World’s Largest and Smartest Net-zero Building

4 Technologies Reshaping New York’s Energy Industry

When a City Stops Arguing About Climate Change and Starts Planning

Brazilian Cities to Preserve Riparian Forests for Water Security

Five Cities Leading on Climate Action

Growth, climate change, migration are main urban challenges, IFRC tells Habitat III - IFRC

For a City to Become Smart it Must Adopt a Culture of Data

These Are the World's 10 Fastest Growing Megacities

Home is Where the Smart Is

The Big Green Apple Enhancing its Livability

Abandoned Urban Spaces to Fight Climate Change

Clean Technology Needed to Make Your City 100% Renewable

Factbox: 10 Facts About Fast Urban Growth on World Cities Day

Europe Takes the Lead in Building Urban Resilience

Water Challenges of Megacities - Eos

Crowd Sourced Mapping for Flood Risk Assessment

Urban water system must be protected during disasters

Keys to the smart city: How to make initiatives successful -- GCN

LA Asks for Money to Fund Recycled Water Projects

IBM Invites Applications for Smartcamp Challenge for Smart City

Water, Megacities and Global Change: 15 Emblematic Cities of the World

Melbourne Water's Low-carbon Future

$1.1-million System in Montreal Listens for Leaks

Are ‘Sponge Cities’ the Answer to Frequent Urban Flooding?

Ten Experts to Watch on Urban Water Policy and Infrastructure

Scientists Call for Greater Say on Global Plan for Future Cities

New Project to Reduce the Impacts of Flooding

Landscape architects see Los Angeles as living lab in combatting climate change

Climate-change Hopes Meet Urban Reality

Can Copenhagen Be The World’s Greenest City?

Projecting Global Water Supplies With A New Tool

I am Amsterdam Rainproof

Urban Water Crisis

International Water Association launches Principles for Water Wise Cities

Cities Turn a New Leaf to Count the ROI of Trees

Low-cost IoT-based System Developed to Forecast Floods

9 Breathtaking City Concepts That Could Be Your Future Neighborhood

Making the Case for Green Infrastructure

Designing and Protecting Urban Green Spaces

Austin Gets More Transparent About Sustainability

Urban Water Security: Lessons for the Danube Region

Brahma Chellaney -- Asia's megacities are running out of water

UN FAO Urges Natural Water Resources’ Security

Partnering with Cities on Climate Goals

Vienna is a Maestro When it Comes to Being Sustainable

Underground Infrastructure Mapping of Smart Cities

Where to Put the Next Billion People

China’s Plan to Solve Urban Flooding with ‘Sponge Cities’

Smart Cities Must Be Smart Enough to Evolve Over Time

Which U.S. City is Doing the Most to Save its Water?

The 5 Technologies To Define the Next Decade in Cities

Ingenu Launches “Smarter City” Program for IoT Applications

Cities Define Key Obstacles to Achieving Climate Goals & Solutions to Overcome Them

Innovative Utilities Reducing Water-Energy Nexus Pressures

Human Factors Limit Smart Cities More Than Technology

How to 'Tune' a City

Isotopes From the Tap Reveal Urban Water System Dynamics

Sustainability: Building Cities to Last

Tel Aviv Aims to Become Beta Site for Smart City Tech

Ted Talk: 4 Ways We Can Avoid a Catastrophic Urban Drought

Green Buildings in a Sustainable Singapore

Water Sensitive Urban Design

What's Really Holding Smart Cities Back?

5 Parameters That Define the Success of Smart City Initiative

11 Ideas for Urban Water Security in Developing Countries

Dubai's Push to Save Water (and Energy)

Achieving Urban Water Security

Wiley: Urban Water Security - Robert C. Brears

Are Cities Planning for the Water Crisis?

Copenhagen becoming a resilient and sustainable city