How
Urban Storm- and Wastewater Management Prepares
for Emerging Opportunities and Threats: Digital Transformation, Ubiquitous
Sensing, New Data Sources, and Beyond - A Horizon Scan
Frank Blumensaat
João P. Leitão
Christoph Ort
Jörg Rieckermann
Andreas Scheidegger
Peter A. Vanrolleghem
Kris Villez
10.1021/acs.est.8b06481.s001
https://acs.figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/How_Urban_Storm-_and_Wastewater_Management_Prepares_for_Emerging_Opportunities_and_Threats_Digital_Transformation_Ubiquitous_Sensing_New_Data_Sources_and_Beyond_-_A_Horizon_Scan/8852252
Ubiquitous
sensing will create many opportunities and threats for
urban water management, which are only poorly understood today. To
identify the most relevant trends, we conducted a horizon scan regarding
how ubiquitous sensing will shape the future of urban drainage and
wastewater management. Our survey of the international urban water
community received an active response from both the academics and
the professionals from the water industry. The analysis of the responses
demonstrates that emerging topics for urban water will often involve
experts from different communities, including aquatic ecologists,
urban water system engineers and managers, as well as information
and communications technology professionals and computer scientists.
Activities in topics that are identified as novel will either require
(i) cross-disciplinary training, such as importing new developments
from the IT sector, or (ii) research in new areas for urban water
specialists, for example, to help solve open questions in aquatic
ecology. These results are, therefore, a call for interdisciplinary
research beyond our own discipline. They also demonstrate that the
water management community is not yet prepared for the <i>digital
transformation</i>, where we will experience a data demand, i.e.
a “pull” of urban water data into external services.
The results suggest that a lot remains to be done to harvest the upcoming
opportunities. Horizon scanning should be repeated on a routine basis,
under the umbrella of an experienced polling organization.
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