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Futures |
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Climate Change |
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Integrated drainage and surface water management plans for Cities |
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Water sensitive urban design |
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Integrated strategies for water and wastewater |
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| 2. |
Water and society |
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Demographics |
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Institutional systems |
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Education and behavioural change |
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Governance |
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Legislation including innovative regulation |
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Policy |
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Historical aspects of urban drainage |
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| 3. |
Hydrological processes and run-off |
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Accounting for climate change |
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Data collection |
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Model Development |
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| 4. |
Management of drainage near source |
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Building drainage |
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BMP/SuDS/WSUD |
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Local and non structural |
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Retrofit systems |
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Disconnection / minimise surface water entering public drainage |
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Promotion by regulation |
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Issues related to development scale |
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| 5. |
Sewer processes |
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Infiltration inflow |
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Hydraulic performance |
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System design and simulation |
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Pollutants and quality |
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In sewer treatment |
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| 6. |
Diffuse pollution |
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Atmospheric |
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Catchment |
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Highways |
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Washoff |
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| 7. |
New, novel and emerging technologies |
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CSO and stormwater treatment |
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Water harvesting |
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Re-use |
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Recycling |
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Green roofs |
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| 8. |
Data, instrumentation, monitoring and modelling |
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Data mining |
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Data handling |
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Knowledge from data |
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Ontologies |
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Hydroinformatics |
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Monitoring and modelling in real time |
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Link to future investments and providing the evidence |
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| 9. |
Urban flooding |
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Forecasting and prediction |
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Interactions and pathways |
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Health |
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Case Studies |
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Surface water management planning |
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| 10. |
Receiving water impacts |
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Drivers for improvements in water quality |
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e.g. Water Framework Directive, Water Acts |
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Morphology and sediments |
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Eco-stress |
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Habitat |
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Priority pollutants |
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| 11. |
Asset management |
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Integrated maintenance, management and planning |
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Deterioration |
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Whole life costs |
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Decision support |
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Security |
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Risk |
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| 12. |
Urban drainage in developing countries |
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Integrated approaches |
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Challenges: institutional, governance, economic, climate, demographics and environmental |
