Before you go: the editors’ checklist of what we now know about Smart Water Management

Kuisma, Stephanie; Nickum, James E.; Bjørnlund, Henning; Stephan, Raya Marina

doi:10.1080/02508060.2020.1830580

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“…Most definitions hold three characteristics of resilience: (1) the amount of change a system can undergo, or the amount of stress it can sustain and still retain the same controls on functions and structure; (2) the degree to which the system is capable of self-organization; and (3) the degree to which the system expresses capacity for learning, adaptation, and recovery. Other work specific to the water sector has been around major challenges (Goldbloom-Helzner et al, 2015;Juan-Garcia et al, 2017;Kuisma et al, 2020;Lawson et al, 2020;Pamidimukkala et al, 2021), frameworks and modeling techniques for measuring resilience and resilience in the context of numerous disasters and multiple concurrent crises (Balaei et al, 2020;Knodt et al, 2022;Saikia et al, 2022).…”

Section: Physical and Digital Resilience Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

WATER SECTOR INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS RESILIENCE A Social-Ecological-Technical System-of-Systems and Whole-Life Approach

Sinha,

Davis,

Gardoni

et al. 2023

Camb. prisms Water

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Water is often referred to as our most precious resource, and for a good reasondrinking water and wastewater services sustain core functions of the critical infrastructure, communities, and human life itself. Our water systems are threatened by aging infrastructure, floods, drought, storms, earthquakes, sea level rise, population growth, cyber-security breaches, and pollution, often in combination. Marginalized communities inevitably feel the worst impacts, and our response continues to be hampered by fragmented and antiquated governance and management practices. This paper focuses on the resilience of water sector (drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater [DWS]) to three major hazards (Sea-Level Rise, Earthquake, and Cyberattack). The purpose of this paper is to provide information useful for creating and maintaining resilient water system services. The term resilience describes the ability to adapt to changing conditions and to withstand and recover from disruptions. The resilience of DWS systems is of utmost importance to modern societies that are highly dependent on continued access to these water sector services. This review covers the terminology on water sector resilience and the assessment of a broad landscape of threats mapped with the proposed framework. A more detailed discussion on two areas of resilience is given: Physical Resilience, which is currently a major factor influencing disruptions and failures in DWS systems, and Digital Resilience, which is a rapidly increasing concern for modern infrastructure systems. The resilience of DWS systems should be considered holistically, inclusive of social, digital, and physical systems. The framework integrates various perspectives on water system threats by showcasing interactions between the parts of the DWS systems and their environment. While the challenges of change, shock and stresses are inevitable, embracing a social-ecological-technical system-of-systems and whole-life approach will allow us to better understand and operationalize resilience. Impact statementServices provided by water lifeline infrastructure (e.g., drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater [DWS] systems) are critical to modern societies. However, stresses from aging and external threats (e.g., sea level rise, floods, earthquakes) on existing DWS systems and the current practice of siloed governance and management of DWS systems have worsened the vulnerabilities in many communities, especially in the marginalized ones. This paper presents a new framework on managing the resilience of DWS systems in the water sector to three major hazards (Sea-Level Rise, Earthquake, and Cyberattack). The new framework embraces a social-ecological-technical system-of-systems approach and a whole-life approach to allow communities to better understand and operationalize short-term to long-term resilience in their DWS systems. The framework also endorses the integration of the goals of sustainability and resilience for overcoming global water challenges, and provides insights via case studies on how...

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Section: Physical and Digital Resilience Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

WATER SECTOR INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS RESILIENCE A Social-Ecological-Technical System-of-Systems and Whole-Life Approach

Sinha,

Davis,

Gardoni

et al. 2023

Camb. prisms Water

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“…Smart water technologies are being introduced at many different points of the water supply, distribution, and treatment chain using approaches like sensors, wireless communication, machine learning algorithms, real-time controls, and feedbacks aimed to alter human behavior. Proponents suggest smart water is associated with: improving water system flexibility, efficiency, and reliability; enhancing system maintenance and repairs; improving transparency; distributing risk; enabling solutions tailored to local conditions; improved revenue collection; and supporting behavioral change of water consumers (Kuisma et al, 2020). Critics claim smart water tweaks the system at the margins rather than fundamentally updating the system to build resilience, contributes to the narrative that emerging technology can solve all problems, introduces security and privacy concerns, introduces labor challenges, and leads to a brittle system lacking interoperability (Kuisma et al, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Proponents suggest smart water is associated with: improving water system flexibility, efficiency, and reliability; enhancing system maintenance and repairs; improving transparency; distributing risk; enabling solutions tailored to local conditions; improved revenue collection; and supporting behavioral change of water consumers (Kuisma et al, 2020). Critics claim smart water tweaks the system at the margins rather than fundamentally updating the system to build resilience, contributes to the narrative that emerging technology can solve all problems, introduces security and privacy concerns, introduces labor challenges, and leads to a brittle system lacking interoperability (Kuisma et al, 2020). In addition, there are doubts on whether smart technologies are relevant everywhere, as upfront implementation costs may be too high (Gupta et al, 2020).…”

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A systematic review of municipal smart water for climate adaptation and mitigation

Lassiter

Leonard

2022

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

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This study examines how research on smart water is contributing to climate-resilient municipal water systems around the globe. We identify smart water research trends over time, relationships with climate adaptation and mitigation goals, and applicability to places with developed or developing water and electrical infrastructure. To do so, we systematically review the literature, identifying research on Information Communication Technology-enabled technologies related to water supply, wastewater, and stormwater management. We assess the relationship between each study and climate adaptation and mitigation objectives: managing greater variation in water quantity, leading to scarcity and increased stormwater; managing declining water quality; and low-carbon water systems. We find 96 relevant studies and identify five major categories of research addressing climate adaptation and mitigation: monitoring, modeling, system design, system feedbacks, and uptake and implementation. We find there is a recent acceleration in smart water research, with a concentration of studies focused on modeling. There is an emphasis on water efficiency using data from Advanced Metering Infrastructure, which is most applicable to cities with developed water grids and consistent electrical supplies. Secondarily, there is a concentration of work using distributed sensors for early detection of water quality degradation, which is being done in all municipal contexts. There is far less research on uptake and implementation of smart approaches, especially at the institutional level. In addition, there is relatively little work that explicitly relates smart water technologies to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. While smart water approaches are applicable everywhere, there is a need to for expanded focus on areas without developed water grids or consistent electricity for smart water to meaningfully contribute to Sustainable Development Goal 6.

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Evaluation of the effects of improving tertiary earthen canals on water savings, conveyance efficiency, and agricultural productivity

Ashour,

Abdel Nasser,

Abu-Zaid

2024

Ain Shams Engineering Journal

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Before you go: the editors’ checklist of what we now know about Smart Water Management

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WATER SECTOR INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS RESILIENCE A Social-Ecological-Technical System-of-Systems and Whole-Life Approach

WATER SECTOR INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS RESILIENCE A Social-Ecological-Technical System-of-Systems and Whole-Life Approach

A systematic review of municipal smart water for climate adaptation and mitigation

Evaluation of the effects of improving tertiary earthen canals on water savings, conveyance efficiency, and agricultural productivity

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