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Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology; 2006; v. 39; issue.2; p. 224;
DOI: 10.1144/1470-9236/05-104
© 2006 Geological Society of London

Book review

Sustainable Water Management Solutions for Larger Cities edited by Svic, Marino, Savenije & Bertoni, IAHS, 2005, £55.00, softback; 312pp ISBN: 1-901 502-97-x

Phil Aldous

Thames Water, UK

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This book highlights the issue of ‘environmental carrying capacity’ and really gets to grip with that question as to whether it is the environment that is changing or whether it is societies demands on the environment that are being exceeded. The papers presented are from the Symposium on Sustainable Water Management Solutions for Large Cities. This was organized by the International Commission on Water Resource Systems (ICWRS) at the eighth IAHS (International Association of Hydrological Sciences) Scientific Assembly in April 2005.

The book covers four broad topics: Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM); Sustainability and Socio-economic and Eco-environmental Issues; Urban Drainage /Flooding and Wastewater management; and Water Quality and Management. This book, which comprises of a mix of theoretical and case study papers, is very much drinking water and flooding focused and because of that misses the key area of adequate sanitation provision. There is a bias towards the third and developing world and these are key issues for those areas, but again misses the longer term sustainability issues that water and wastewater companies face in the developed world, for instance – ever tighter wastewater standards, infrastructure integrity (sewers and water mains) and increasing wealth which brings increasing water demand.

Do not buy this book for its quality of diagrams and figures or for an easy read on these important issues either. But do buy it if you require detailed data, examples and technical information to aid in addressing sustainable water resource issues if you are actively involved in the strategic . . . [Full Text of this Article]