Smart Water Management: Truly Intelligent or Just Another Pretty Name?

ISBN-13: 9781032345734 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 198 str.

Henning Bjornlund; Stephanie Kuisma; James E. Nickum

Opis

This book contributes to the debate about the suitability and challenges of the Smart Water Management (SWM) approach. Smart Water Management has increasingly been promoted to manage water and wastewater more efficiently and cost effectively by industries and utilities in urban contexts at regional or city scales, while reducing overall consumption. It is based on the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to provide real-time, automated data to resolve water challenges. Many of these technologies are complex and costly, however, and the approach tends to overlook cheaper and less high-tech (softer) approaches to address the same problems. Yet there may be opportunities for using them even in resource short rural communities in developing countries.

The book includes examples of SWM systems in practice in diverse locations from Korea, Mexico, Paris, the Canary Islands and southern Africa, aimed at addressing a diverse set of problems, including monitoring water supply to refugees.  Critical voices highlight the need for smart institutions to accompany smart technologies, the absurdity of applying SWM to dysfunctional legacy infrastructure systems, whether its adoption raises moral hazards, and whether SWM is the latest example of hegemonic masculinity in water management. 

The chapters in this book were originally published in Water International.

Spis treści

Part 1: Introducing Smart Water Management 1. Smart Water Management: the way to (artificially) intelligent water management, or just another pretty name? 2. The IWRA report that sparked this book   Part 2: Case Study Summaries 3. SWM technology for efficient water management in universities: the case of PUMAGUA, UNAM, Mexico City 4. K-water’s Integrated Water Resources Management system (K-HIT, K-water Hydro Intelligent Toolkit) 5. Integrated Smart Water Management of the sanitation system of the Greater Paris region Part 3: Innovative Uses and Critical Perspectives 6. Is Smart Water Management really smart? What experts tell us 7. Smart water management: can it improve accessibility and affordability of water for everyone? 8. Institutional innovation and smart water management technologies in small-scale irrigation schemes in southern Africa 9. Using innovative smart water management technologies to monitor water provision to refugees 10. A GIS-based solution for urban water management 11. SWM and urban water: Smart management for an absurd system? 12. The moral hazards of smart water management 13. Masculinity and smart water management: why we need a critical perspective 14. Deconstructing masculinity in water governance Conclusion Before you go: the editors’ checklist of what we now know about Smart Water Management