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Yang, J. Sustainable Urban Infrastructure Development and the Role of Water Technologies in the U.S. Presented at 7th International Conference on China Urban Water Development and Expo of New Technologies and Facilities, Ningbo, CHINA, November 29 - 30, 2012.

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Presentation to inform the public.

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Increased climate variability and rapid urbanization are fundamentally changing the urban watershed hydrology and consequently sustainability of water systems. However, our urban planning and engineering practices are based on decades-old hydrological theory and guidance based on a assumed climate stationarity. This discounting the changes in climate and urban hydroscape, in part contributes to the increasingly frequent problems in urban water systems. The US EPA has coordinated Agency-wide research programs in studying the non-stationary variables and developing technical and management solutions to increase the sustainability of urban water systems. For example, the USEPA Water Resources Adaptation Program (WRAP) is developing a series of methods and tools that can be used to assess the hydrological impacts of climate and land use changes and to develop corrective technical solutions. This presentation will focus on the major aspects of these advances and their adaptation applications for better resilience of urban infrastructures.

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