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Smart Water Management: Truly Intelligent or Just Another Pretty Name? (Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance) (in English)
H. Bjornlund (Editor), Stephanie Kuisma (Editor), James E. Nickum (Editor), Raya Marina Stephan (Editor) (Author)
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Smart Water Management: Truly Intelligent or Just Another Pretty Name? (Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance) (in English) - H. Bjornlund (Editor), Stephanie Kuisma (Editor), James E. Nickum (Editor), Raya Marina Stephan (Editor)
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Synopsis "Smart Water Management: Truly Intelligent or Just Another Pretty Name? (Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance) (in English)"
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.
