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Urban Water II is the proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on the Design, Construction, Maintenance, Monitoring and Control of Urban Water Systems. The meeting was reconvened following the success of the first conference held in the New Forest, home to the Wessex Institute of Technology in 2012. Water systems in the urban environment consist of supply networks as well as sewage and storm drainage systems. They interact with each other and with warm bodies such as rivers, lakes and aquifers, and this interaction affects the quality and quantity of the different systems. As our cities continue to expand, their urban infrastructure must be re-evaluated and adapted to new requirements related to the increase in population and the growing areas under urbanisation. New water systems are also required to reduce the risk associated with floods, network failures and many others related to inadequate networks. New systems should reduce economic losses and environmental impacts as well as promote a higher degree of reliability. Improved management, measurement and control mechanisms are needed to ensure the efficiency and safety of urban water systems.Relating to the subject areas of Water supply networks and Urban Drainage, topics covered include: Water Supply Networks; Network Design; Urban Drainage Systems for Water Sensitive Cities; Water Quality; Leakage and Losses; Infrastructure Issues; Combined Sewer Networks; Flood Control; Modelling and Experimentation.

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"Stefano Mambretti currently serves as Associate Professor of Hydraulics at the Faculty of Engineering of the Politecnico di Milano. In 2012 he served as a visiting professor at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas, in Brazil. He graduated in Civil Engineering at the Politecnico in 1991 (winning the ""Noseda prize"" as best graduate in Hydraulics that year) and was awarded a PhD in Hydraulic Engineering in 1995. In 1997 he was appointed as Vice Chief of Public Works in an important municipality, in 1999 he became Assistant Professor in Hydraulics, and in 2003 he was appointed Associate Professor. Stefano also worked as a private consultant, for a number of projects in urban infrastructures in Djibouti, Kuwait, Algeria, Tanzania, Iraq, gaining renowned expertise, mainly in the field of waterhammer. Dr. Mambretti is the author or co-author of numerous publications (peer-reviewed scientific papers, key-note lectures, conference papers, books, and technical reports) in the areas of water phenomena, as urban infrastructures (sewer and water distribution systems), fluid dynamics and rheology of debris and hyper-concentrated flows, water resources use and management, using both advanced laboratory and field observation techniques and mathematical simulation models. He is the co-editor of the WIT Press book Dam-Break Problems, Solutions and Case Studies, published in 2009, and sole editor of the WIT Press books Landslides and Flood Risk Assessment and Management, published 2011, and Tsunami: From Fundamentals to Damage Mitigation, published 2013. Prof Carlos A. Brebbia graduated at the University of Litoral, Argentina. He received his PhD at Southampton University, England in 1968 and worked at MIT, USA and the Central Electricity Research Laboratories, UK as well as the University of Princeton, USA. Prof Carlos A. Brebbia was appointed Lecturer at the University of Southampton, UK in 1969 and a senior lecturer in 1976 before becoming a Reader in Computational Engineering. In 1979 he became Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of California at Irvine. He is now Chairman of Computational Mechanics and Director of Wessex Institute of Technology. Prof Carlos A. Brebbia has written over 250 scientific papers, is author or co-author of 13 books and editor or co-editor of over 80 other books. He is an internationally well known specialist in numerical methods, finite and boundary elements and in the computer solution of engineering problems. Prof Carlos A. Brebbia is the Editor or co-editor of five scientific journals and has carried out a great deal of consultancy work for the engineering industry as well as having participated in many international projects and conferences."

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