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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ray Biswas, Rahul
• Sharma, Raj
• Gyasi-Agyei, Yeboah
• Rahman, Anisur

Titel

Urban water security: water supply and demand management strategies in the face of climate change

Ist Teil von

• Urban water journal, 2023-07, Vol.20 (6), p.723-737

Ort / Verlag

Abingdon: Taylor & Francis

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Quelle

Taylor & Francis

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Understanding the knowledge of climate-change impacts on water-resources is a priority. This article goes a step further with the main objective of this study to explore water-practitioners' viewpoints regarding the water supply-side and water demand-side management measures in coping with future climatic impacts to achieve urban water security. Interviews were conducted with water-professionals from regional urban water authorities of Queensland, Australia. From a water-practitioner's viewpoint, surface water is perceived to remain a high-priority water resource for the region, although climate-change is projected to make this resource more vulnerable in the area. Climate-change risks have rarely been considered as a selection-criterion when long-term water solutions were investigated by water-practitioners. Although non-pricing water demand management policies were used to reduce water demand in the region, pricing-based water demand management tools are perceived by the water-professionals to be the most effective at reducing water demand in the study area, if implemented.