The Water Sensitive City

by Gary Grant

This book advocates a more thoughtful approach to urban water management. The approach involves reducing water consumption, harvesting rainwater, recycling rainwater and adopting Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) where surface water is not sent straight to drains but is intercepted by features like green roofs, rain gardens, swales and ponds.Cities in particular need to change the existing linear model of water consumption and use to a more circular...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1118897668
• ISBN13: 9781118897669
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.5" x 9.6"