Journal
PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS-ENGINEERING SUSTAINABILITY
Volume 165, Issue 1, Pages 89-98Publisher
ICE PUBL
DOI: 10.1680/ensu.2012.165.1.89
Keywords
hydrology & water resource; sustainability; water supply
Funding
- UK Engineering and Physical Science Research Council as part of the urban futures consortium
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/F007426/1, EP/F007566/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/F007426/1, EP/F007566/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Deployable output (source availability) from water resources in north west England is predicted to decrease over the next 25 years. Alternative supply management strategies are planned to help avoid a deficit in the supply-demand balance within the region but have yet to be considered in detail. This paper assesses the contribution of such an alternative supply strategy at local level on the water resource supply-demand balance at regional level based on a proposed urban regeneration site in north west England. Various water conservation and reuse measures are investigated considering local and regional conditions and constraints. Four future scenarios are presented and used to describe how the future might be (rather than how it will be), to allow an assessment to be made of how current 'sustainable solutions' might cope whatever the future holds. The analysis determines the solution contributions under each future and indicates that some strategies will deliver their full intended benefits under scenarios least expected but most needed. It is recommended that to help reduce the regional supply-demand deficit and maximise system resilience to future change, a wide range of water demand management measures should be incorporated on this and other sites.
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