Urban Water Management for Future Cities by Stephan Köster & Moritz Reese & Jiane Zuo

Author:Stephan Köster & Moritz Reese & Jiane Zuo
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030014889
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Flood-prevention and water-sensitive development standards: The development of adequate public drainage and stormwater systems needs to be geared by adequate standards regarding the absorption and attenuation capacity of the municipal drainage system. How such standards are formulated and developed in China is reported in detail by Zhou et al. below – who also point to an increasing implementation gap in this regard. Decentralized rainwater management, too, can strongly be enforced by binding standards as to what on-site capacities are to be provided by developers and urban land owners and by development bans on measures that would exacerbate flood risks in flood-prone areas. Of course, it is not easy to define adequate urban drainage standards on a global level as the appropriateness depends strongly on the combination of on-site measures and the surrounding drainage infrastructure. Illustrative examples of development bans and regulations aimed at water-sensitive urban development can be taken from § 78 of the Federal German Water Act. However, these stipulations, too, apply only with regard to riverine flood-risk areas and are not yet extended to pluvial flood risk.

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