Adapting urban water systems to a changing climate: Lessons from the millennium drought in southeast Australia

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 10727-10734

  Grant, Stanley B ^a,b   Fletcher, Tim D ^d   Feldman, David ^c   Saphores, Jean Daniel ^a,c   Cook, Perran L M ^e   Stewardson, Mike ^b   Low, Kathleen ^a   Burry, Kristal ^d   Hamilton, Andrew J ^d  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RUNOFF; STORM WATER;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; URBAN AREA; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE; WATER SUPPLY;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; EVAPORATION; RECYCLING; URBAN AREA; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER RECYCLING; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

AUSTRALIA;

CITIES; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHTS; RAIN; RECYCLING; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; VICTORIA; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84885161356     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es400618z     Document Type: Article

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