Space constraints in developed urban cities necessitate utilizing existing capacity of the drainage system for actively controlling and optimizing the flow during a flood event. This is mainly achieved by the use of non-structural control measures (in the form of suitable controllers and control...

Basic sanitation services are essential for human development, promoting health and inhibiting the spread of waterborne diseases. The availability of information on water and sanitation services at the local level supports the formulation, implementation and improvement of public policies aimed...

Despite continuing efforts to upgrade the urban storm sewer system since the late 1950s, the City of Shanghai is still vulnerable to persistent rainstorm waterlogging due to excess surface runoff and sewer surcharge, which frequently cause significant damage to buildings and disruption to...

The majority of flooding in cities occurs while raining because of the cities' uncontrolled growth of population and their pattern of settlements, haphazardly sprawling urbanization, their inadequate and faulty drainage, and also due to absence of scientific waste management. A proper example of...

In 2011, Spon Press, Tayor & Francis published the third edition of the book „Urban Drainage”, ISBN 0-203-84905-1, 978-0-415-45526-8 (pbk), 978-0-415-45525-1 (hbk), 978-0-203-84905-7 (ebk), written by David Butler and John W. Davies.

Basic sanitation services are essential for human development, promoting health and inhibiting the spread of waterborne diseases. The availability of information on water and sanitation services at the local level supports the formulation, implementation and improvement of public policies aimed...

How are Asian countries preparing children to have skills-including creativity, innovation, and technical capability-to compete in the 21st Century global economy? Countries including China, Korea, Japan and Singapore have begun to integrate education policy and practice into a key component of...

Entering the 2020s, LNG sellers are operating in an increasingly oversupplied global market, thus facing the problems of whether and where they will be able to 'find a home' for their cargoes. Given that the EU is the only liquid gas market with regulated third party access (TPA) to LNG import...

How are Asian countries preparing children to have skills-including creativity, innovation, and technical capability-to compete in the 21st Century global economy? Countries including China, Korea, Japan and Singapore have begun to integrate education policy and practice into a key component of...