Imperial College London
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DR ANA MIJIC

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Reader in Water Systems Integration
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 3796ana.mijic Website

 
 
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Assistant

 

Miss Judith Barritt +44 (0)20 7594 5967

 
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Location

 

310BSkempton BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Puchol-Salort:2022:10.1016/j.watres.2022.118583,
author = {Puchol-Salort, P and Boskovic, S and Dobson, B and van, Reeuwijk M and Mijic, A},
doi = {10.1016/j.watres.2022.118583},
journal = {Water Research},
pages = {1--13},
title = {Water neutrality framework for systemic design of new urban developments},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2022.118583},
volume = {219},
year = {2022}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - The climate emergency and population growth threaten urban water security in cities worldwide. Growth, urbanisation, and changes to way of life have increased housing demand, requiring cities such as London to increase their housing stock by more than 15% over the next 10 years. These new urban developments will increase water demand, urban flood risk, and river water pollution levels; therefore, an integrated systems-based approach to development and water management is needed. Water Neutrality (WN) has emerged as a concept to frame the concerns about escalating water stresses in cities. We frame WN as a planning process for new urban developments that aims to minimise impacts on urban water security and offset any remaining stresses by retrofitting existing housing stock. In this work, we present a novel systemic design framework for future urban planning called CityPlan-Water, which guides how WN might be achieved to tackle current and future water pressures at a city scale. CityPlan-Water integrates spatial data with an integrated urban water management model, enabling urban design at a systems level and systematic assessment of future scenarios. We define a Water Neutrality Index that captures how successful a given urban planning scenario is in achieving WN and how multiple interventions could be combined at a city scale to improve WN. Results from CityPlan-Water suggest that it will be necessary to retrofit almost the same number of existing homes with WN design options to completely offset the impact imposed by proposed new developments. Combining options such as water efficient appliances, water reuse systems, and social awareness campaigns can offset the impact of new development on water demand by 70%, while to neutralise potential flood risk and water pollution at a city scale, interventions such as rainwater harvesting and Blue Green Infrastructure need to be added both in new urban developments and 432,000 existing London households. We see CityPlan-Wa
AU  - Puchol-Salort,P
AU  - Boskovic,S
AU  - Dobson,B
AU  - van,Reeuwijk M
AU  - Mijic,A
DO  - 10.1016/j.watres.2022.118583
EP  - 13
PY  - 2022///
SN  - 0043-1354
SP  - 1
TI  - Water neutrality framework for systemic design of new urban developments
T2  - Water Research
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2022.118583
UR  - http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000807185600004&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
UR  - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004313542200536X
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/98464
VL  - 219
ER  -
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