This paper addresses the current imperative to develop and test urban ET algorithms, incorporate these into urban water balance models, and develop these into tools to underpin and guide Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) and integrated urban water management. Two approaches to modelling the urban water balance focusing specifically on urban evapotranspiration are presented: i) SUES (Single-so...

Abstract Cimahi City as a part of the Upper Citarum Sub-Watershed has problems with flooding, land subsidence, and clean water crisis caused by urban development. Currently, multidisciplinary approach to management been expanded include hydrological cycle in it; one concepts that developed is water-sensitive design (WSUD). The purpose this study measure changes surface runoff result infiltratio...

Climate changes, failure to complete the natural cycle of water in the city due to unsustainableconstruction of the urban environments and increase of impervious surfaces, lack of nutrition of undergroundaquifer in the cities, unsustainable management of stormwater and the floods due to them in the periods of rainfallcaused to provide an approach that is called water sensitive urban design. Thi...

Desa Lebani Suko termasuk daerah kawasan Gresik Selatan yang merupakan memiliki potensi tinggi terhadap banjir. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui bagaimana karakteristik banjir di dan pendekatan konsep Water Sensitive Urban Design dalam penanganannya. Metode digunakan deskriptif kualitatif dengan teknik analisis skoring komparatif. Hasil menunjukkan genangan terdapat RW II IV nilai rendah ...

Urban water management has somewhat changed since the publication of The Sustainable Drainage System (SuDS) Manual in 2007 [1], transforming from building traditional sewers to implementing SuDS, which are part of the best management practice techniques used in the USA and seen as contributing to water-sensitive urban design in Australia. Most SuDS, such as infiltration trenches, swales, green ...

Abstract With city growth, the development of vacant or under-used land parcels is becoming more common compared to past. The current ‘water-sensitive urban design (WSUD)’ approach such will improve resource efficiency, liveability, and amenity cities, especially natural water systems. However, there a need quantify performance site-scale WSUD options, about how these options impact ‘natural’ ‘...

Urbanization and urban development builds large amounts of impervious areas, stopping the infiltrating of rainfall into soil process and consequently, requiring of the construction of large stormwater treatment measures. A new tendency in storm water management endorses ‘source control’ whereby small distributed water sensitive urban design systems are built throughout the subdivision to allevi...