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Low-cost Stormwater Drainage




Planning and design of urban drainage systems in informal settlements in developing countries (Urban Water Journal, 2007)

Towards a new stormwater management approach [in South Africa] (The Water Wheel, 2006)

Book: Urban Stormwater Management in Developing Countries (IWA Publishing, 2005)

Drainage and stormwater management strategies for low-income urban communities (Environment & Urbanization, 2003)

Urban drainage in developing countries – challenges and opportunities (Waterlines, 2002)

Stormwater Drainage and Land Reclamation for Urban Development (UN Habitat, 1991)

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SurfaceWater Drainage for Low-income Communities (WHO, 1991)
 

Hydraulics of Sediment Movement in Urban Drainage Systems (whole issue of Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, ASCE, April 2003)

Queensland Urban Drainage Manual, vol. 1, 2nd ed. (Department of Natural Resources and Water, 2007) − request vol. 2 (charts) here.

International Source Book on Environmentally Sound Technologies for Wastewater and
Stormwater Management (IETC/UNEP, 2002)

Book: Wetland Systems to Control Urban Runoff (Elsevier, 2006)  University of Leeds Library
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Book: Urban Drainage, 2nd ed. (Spon, 2004) 

Associated Programme on Flood Management (website) − a joint initiative of the World Meteoro- logical Organization and the Global Water Partnership promoting the concept of ‘Integrated Flood Management’ as a new approach to flood management. 

Video (43 minutes): Managing Stormwater in Arizona (European Water News, 2009)  Stormwater management in Arizona is a challenge: either it's too dry, or it's flooding taking with it everything that's in the stream.

Stormwater reuse
Australian Guidelines for Water Recycling: Stormwater Harvesting and Reuse (Natural Resource Management Ministerial Council, Environment Protection and Heritage Council, and National Health and Medical Research Council, 2009) 

FLOODS
Floods and the Poor: Reducing the Vulnerability of the Poor to the Negative Impacts of Floods
(ADB, 2008)

Climate change, urban flooding and the rights of the urban poor in Africa − Key findings from six African cities
(ActionAid, 2006)
Living with Floods
(WELL Factsheet, 2006)

Water and sanitation in floods − Lessons and best practice (WaterSanitationHygiene Forum, 2009)

US EPA Storm Water Technology Fact Sheets (1999)
     Storm Water Wetlands
     Vegetated Swales
     Wet Detention Ponds
     Infiltration Drainfields
     Infiltration Trench