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Sustainable Urban Water Management

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Sustainability in urban water management is of utmost importance. The distribution of water should depend not only on the availability of the valuable natural resources but also on its efficient use. Water quality plays an equally significant role since if different water uses are taken into account could provide a more sustainable water distribution. We establish that water quantity and quality should be jointly studied and managed in order to acquire a beneficial sustainable water environment for urban areas.

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  1. Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Antigoni Zafirakou

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  1. Department of Business Administration, Technological Educational Institute of Central Macedonia, Serres, Greece

    Athanasia Karakitsiou

  2. Industrial Logistics, Department of Business Administration, Technology and Social Sciences, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden

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  4. Deparment of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA

    Panos M. Pardalos

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Zafirakou, A. (2017). Sustainable Urban Water Management. In: Karakitsiou, A., Migdalas, A., Rassia, S., Pardalos, P. (eds) City Networks. Springer Optimization and Its Applications, vol 128. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65338-9_13

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