1st Edition
Smart Water Management Truly Intelligent or Just Another Pretty Name?
Part I: Introducing Smart Water Management
1. Smart Water Management: the way to (artificially) intelligent water management, or just another pretty name?
James E. Nickum, Stephanie Kuisma, Henning Bjornlund and Raya Marina Stephan
2. The IWRA report that sparked this book
Stephanie Kuisma, Callum Clench, Monica Garcia Quesada, James E. Nickum and Henning Bjornlund
Part II: Case Study Summaries
3. SWM technology for efficient water management in universities: the case of PUMAGUA, UNAM, Mexico City
Fernando González Villarreal, Cecilia Lartigue, Josué Hidalgo, Berenice Hernández & Stephanie Espinosa
4. K-water’s Integrated Water Resources Management system (K-HIT, K-water Hydro Intelligent Toolkit)
Sukuk Yi, Munhyun Ryu, Jinsuhk Suh, Shangmoon Kim, Seokkyu Seo, Seonghan Kim and Sungphil Jang
5. Integrated Smart Water Management of the sanitation system of the Greater Paris region
Jean-Pierre Tabuchi, Béatrice Blanchet and Vincent Rocher
Part III: Innovative Uses and Critical Perspectives
6. Is Smart Water Management really smart? What experts tell us
James E. Nickum, Henning Bjornlund, Raya Marina Stephan and Stephanie Kuisma
7. Smart water management: can it improve accessibility and affordability of water for everyone?
Neil S. Grigg
8. Institutional innovation and smart water management technologies in small-scale irrigation schemes in southern Africa
H. Bjornlund, A. van Rooyen, J. Pittock, K. Parry, M. Moyo, M. Mdemu and W. de Sousa
9. Using innovative smart water management technologies to monitor water provision to refugees
Ryan W. Schweitzer, Ben Harvey and Murray Burt
10. A GIS-based solution for urban water management
Pablo Fernández Moniz, Jaisiel Santana Almeida, Agustín Trujillo Pino & José Pablo Suárez Rivero
11. SWM and urban water: Smart management for an absurd system?
M. P. Trudeau
12. The moral hazards of smart water management
Kris Hartley and Glen Kuecker
13. Masculinity and smart water management: why we need a critical perspective
Anna Kosovac
14. Deconstructing masculinity in water governance
Kris Hartley and Glen Kuecker
Conclusion:
Before you go: the editors’ checklist of what we now know about Smart Water Management
Stephanie Kuisma, James E. Nickum, Henning Bjornlund and Raya Marina Stephan
Biography
Henning Bjornlund is a Fellow and Vice President at IWRA. He is also a Research Professor in Water Management and Policy at the University of South Australia. He has been researching water management and policy issues in Australia since 1993, in Canada since 2005 and in southern Africa since 2013 where he works closely with partners in Mozambique, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Ethiopia.
Stephanie Kuisma, a former Project Consultant for IWRA, is a climate and sustainability specialist in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
James E. Nickum, Fellow, Global Reach Awardee and former Vice-President of the International Water Resources Association (IWRA) is the Editor in Chief of Water International, non-resident Professorial Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London and non-resident Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, East-West Center, Honolulu.
Raya Marina Stephan is Fellow and Former Director of IWRA. She is an expert in water law, and an international consultant in water related projects with international organizations. She is the Deputy Editor in Chief of Water International.
