Shifting to urban sensitive water design – One Water

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Urban water management Shifting to urban sensitive water design – One Water For the land use and urban planning sector, this has meant thinking about how to incorporate water as a complementary component to the urban landscape, by viewing all forms of water in the urban landscape as essential to a healthy urban environment and potential resources, and not as problems to get rid of – net positive infrastructure. To move in this direction, specific attention will need to be placed on the interplay between the different kinds of factors that affect successful collaboration and integration between urban and water planners. Some that ‘push’ for change through present day needs (drivers), such as the impending infrastructure capacity and resource constraints, the need to reduce flooding and nutrient discharge to waterways through sewer overflows.

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