Water Resources: A New Water Architecture

Content: Cover
 Title Page
 Copyright
 Contents
 Series Editor Foreword â#x80
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 Challenges in Water Management
 Introduction
 References
 Chapter 1 What do we Mean by â#x80
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 Introduction
 1.1 Defining â#x80
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 and Utilities and Public Services
 1.1.2 Smart Consumer Goods
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 1.2.1 Smart Grids
 1.3 Cleantech and Smart Cleantech
 1.3.1 Smart Cleantech
 1.4 Smart Water
 1.4.1 Smart Water and the Flow of Information
 1.4.2 Smart Water and Managing the Water Cycle. 1.4.3 Smart Water and the â#x80
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1.5 Water, Smart Water and Cleantech
 1.6 Disruption and a Conservative Sector
 1.6.1 Why Water Utilities are Risk-Averse
 1.6.2 A Question of Standards
 1.6.3 Disruption in a Conservative Sector
 1.7 The Size of this Market
 Estimates and Forecasts
 1.7.1 A Survey of Surveys
 1.8 Venture Capital Funding Flows
 1.8.1 Smart Water Cleantech Funding
 1.8.2 Funding Smart Water Companies
 1.8.3 The Evolution of Venture Capital Funding
 1.9 Two Perspectives on Venture Capital and New Technologies. 1.9.1 The Global Cleantech 100 â#x80
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 Investor and Customer Expectations and Realities
 1.10 Sales of Smart Systems
 1.11 Smart Water for Consumers
 1.12 Smart Water for Utilities and Industrial Customers
 1.13 Irrigation and Surface Water Monitoring
 1.14 Water and the â#x80
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 1.15 Some Initial Caveats
 1.15.1 A Caveat about a Swiftly Evolving Future
 1.15.2 A Caveat on Data and the Silo Mentality
 Conclusions
 References
 Chapter 2 Why do we Need Smart Water?
 Introduction
 2.1 The Water Supply Crunch. 2.1.1 Water Scarcity and Stress2.1.2 Renewable Water Resources
 2.1.3 Population Growth and Urbanisation
 2.1.4 Water Shortage, Scarcity and Stress
 2.1.5 Population and Water Stress
 2.1.6 Industrial Water Usage
 2.1.7 The Supply Management Paradigm
 2.1.8 Funding Constraints
 The Need to do More with Less Funding
 2.1.9 Affordability is a Concern, Especially in Less Equal Societies
 2.1.10 Paying for Water and Wastewater
 2.2 The Impact of Climate Change
 2.2.1 The Cost of Adapting to a Changing Climate
 2.3 Leakage and Water Losses
 2.4 Water Efficiency and Demand Management. 2.4.1 Demand Management and Consumer Behaviour2.4.2 Balancing Water Use
 Seasonal Demand and Availability
 2.4.3 Water Efficiency â#x80
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 The Demands of Demand Management
 2.4.4 Water Metering
 2.5 Lowering Energy Usage
 2.5.1 The Cost of Energy
 2.5.2 Where Energy is Consumed
 2.5.3 Energy Efficiency
 2.5.4 Turning Wastewater into a Resource
 2.6 Appreciating Asset Condition and its Effective Performance
 2.6.1 Improvements in Asset Efficiency and Operating Costs
 2.6.2 The Need to Understand Underground Assets
 2.6.3 Pumps and Potential Savings
 2.6.4 The Scope for Savings
 Conclusions.