[HTML][HTML] Towards a smart water city: A comprehensive review of applications, data requirements, and communication technologies for integrated management

M Oberascher, W Rauch, R Sitzenfrei - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
Smart cities are an innovate concept for managing urban cities to enhance sustainability and
increase quality of life for citizens. Although urban water infrastructure (UWI) performs …

Greening smart cities: An investigation of the integration of urban natural resources and smart city technologies for promoting environmental sustainability

CX Hui, G Dan, S Alamri, D Toghraie - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
The integration of urban natural resources and smart city technologies as a means to
promote sustainability is investigated in this study using a descriptive-analytical literature …

[HTML][HTML] Promoting water conservation: where to from here?

M Moglia, S Cook, S Tapsuwan - Water, 2018 - mdpi.com
This paper reports on a review of international water conservation efforts, but with a
particular focus on the Australian context. The aim is to take stock of the current …

A composite indicator index as a proxy for measuring the quality of water supply as perceived by users for urban water services

PGJ Antonio, AL Vicent, FP Ramón - Technological Forecasting and Social …, 2022 - Elsevier
The objective of this study is to develop a composite indicator (CI) to measure the quality of
water supply based on the variables that are considered to affect users' perceptions of water …

[HTML][HTML] Building a system dynamics model to support water management: a case study of the semiarid region in the Brazilian Northeast

W Correia de Araujo, KP Oliveira Esquerre, O Sahin - Water, 2019 - mdpi.com
In recent centuries, water consumption rates have more than doubled and the population
growth rate is rising constantly. As a result, water scarcity is now one of the main problems to …

The design and evaluation of water tariffs: A systematic review

D Fuente - Utilities Policy, 2019 - Elsevier
Across the globe, many low-and middle-income countries are investing in their first
generation of piped water and sanitation infrastructure. At the same time, the water and …

New hydro-economic system dynamics and agent-based modeling for sustainable urban groundwater management: A case study of Dehno, Yazd Province, Iran

MA Arasteh, Y Farjami - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2021 - Elsevier
Water scarcity invariably poses a threat to the sustainability of cities and rural areas with
limited resources, especially in developing countries. This paper presents a new hydro …

Developing socio-hydrology: Research progress, opportunities and challenges

J Xia, Y Dong, L Zou - Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2022 - Springer
The development of industrialization and urbanization has intensified the coupling of human
activities and hydrological processes and promoted the emergence of socio-hydrology. This …

The analysis of financially sustainable management strategies of urban water distribution network under increasing block tariff structure: A system dynamics approach

AS Babamiri, MS Pishvaee… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Financially self-sustainable management of urban water infrastructure assets in IBTs
structure is a significant challenge faced by policy makers. In this paper, a novel causal loop …

[HTML][HTML] Life cycle sustainability assessment of wastewater systems under applying water demand management policies

H Safarpour, M Tabesh, SA Shahangian, M Hajibabaei… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Sustainability assessment of urban water and wastewater infrastructures, especially when it
comes to managing existing systems, is of paramount importance. Hence, this study …