Urban Drainage, Fourth Edition

This new edition of a well-established textbook covers the environmental and engineering aspects of the management of rainwater and wastewater in areas of human development. Urban Drainage deals comprehensively not only with the design of new systems, but also the analysis and upgrading of existing infrastructure. Keeping its balance of principles, practice and research, this new edition has significant new material on modelling, resilience, smart systems, and the global and local context. The two new authors bring further research and practice-based experience.

This is an essential text for undergraduate and graduate students, lecturers and researchers in water engineering, environmental engineering, public health engineering, engineering hydrology, and related non-engineering disciplines. It also serves as a dependable reference for drainage engineers in water service providers, local authorities, and for consulting engineers. Extensive examples are used to support and demonstrate the key issues throughout the text.

Professor David Butler is Co-director of the Centre for Water Systems at the University of Exeter, UK. Dr Christos Makropoulos is an assistant professor at the National Technical University of Athens and the Chief Information Officer of KWR Watercycle Research Institute in the Netherlands. Dr Chris Digman is a chartered civil engineer working for MWH in UK. He co-developed the first urban drainage research framework for the UK’s Environment Agency. Professor John Davies is Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering at Coventry University, UK.