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  • Artificial intelligence underpins urban water infrastructure of the future: A holistic perspective

  • Guangtao Fu, Siao Sun, Lan Hoang, Zhiguo Yuan, David Butler
  • Journal:
    Cambridge Prisms: Water / Volume 1 / 2023
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    06 November 2023, e14
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  • The potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in water management is widely recognised by research and practice communities alike, with an increasing number of applications showed tackling water supply, stormwater and wastewater management challenges. However, there is a critical knowledge gap in understanding the fundamental role of AI in the development of urban water infrastructure (UWI). This review aimed to provide an analysis of how AI could be aligned to support the future development of UWI systems. Four types of AI analytics – descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive – are discussed and linked to the improvement in the performance of UWI systems from three categories: reliability, resilience and sustainability. It is envisioned that AI technology will play a pivotal role in UWI transitioning to the future through underpinning the five development pathways: decentralisation, circular economy, greening, decarbonisation and automation. The barriers in improving AI adoption in the real world are also highlighted from four dimensions: cyber-physical infrastructure, institutional governance, social-economic systems and technological development in wider society. Embedding AI in the development pathways and tackling the barriers can ensure that AI-empowered systems are deployed in an equitable and responsible way to improve the resilience and sustainability of future UWI systems.

  • 13 - Urban Water

  • from Cities and Industry
  • Edited by Kenneth G. H. Baldwin, Australian National University, Canberra, Mark Howden, Australian National University, Canberra, Michael H. Smith, Australian National University, Canberra, Karen Hussey, University of Queensland, Peter J. Dawson
  • Book:
    Transitioning to a Prosperous, Resilient and Carbon-Free Economy
    Published online:
    08 October 2021
    Print publication:
    28 October 2021, pp 338-364

  • Summary

    Without progress on mitigation, the costs of adaptation to climate change will become prohibitive. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates the cost of adaptation in the water sector alone could exceed USD 50 billion/annum as droughts become more intense and frequent as well as causing more severe rainstorms, flooding and cyclones, and increasing water scarcity in cities. Climate change also risks melting glaciers and snow, upon which over 2 billion people depend for part of their water. Many urban water systems have been built without adequately factoring in the risks of climate change. These risks are already impacting cities: extreme droughts, or sewer systems overwhelmed by storms, sending raw sewage into streets, rivers and drinking water. Declining water availability risks higher energy and carbon intensity of water. This chapter gives a number of climate change mitigation strategies that also yield significant climate adaptation co-benefits and explores how pursuing these strategies can help improve sustainable development goals of improved productivity, public health, new jobs in water/energy efficiency functions and better social equity outcomes.