Linmei Nie, Haifeng Jia, Kefeng Zhang, Guangtao Fu
In 2014, China initiated its national action plan for sponge city development aiming to tackle urban water and environmental challenges. Since then, numerous projects have been implemented across 30 pilot cities and beyond in China through two development stages. The sponge city development, based on a systematic approach of “source reduction, process control, and systematic remediation”, adopts comprehensive technical measures of “infiltration, detention, retention, purification, utilization and discharge”, and coordinates the different aspects of water quantity and quality, ecology...
In 2014, China initiated its national action plan for sponge city development aiming to tackle urban water and environmental challenges. Since then, n...
