Managing Urban Water Resources: A Review of Challenges, Techniques, and Sustainability Strategies
Received: 20 December 2024 | Revised: 8 February 2025 and 22 March 2025 | Accepted: 4 April 2025 | Online: 4 June 2025
Corresponding author: John Christopher Algallar
Abstract
This paper highlights key challenges in coastal urban water resource management, focusing on the environmental, socio-economic, and governance dimensions that widely contribute to these issues. It discusses assessment methods, such as hydrological modeling, involving the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT), the Hydrologic Engineering Center-Hydrologic Modeling System (HEC-HMS), Remote Sensing (RS), Geographic Information System (GIS), and water quality assessment, emphasizing their practical usage, benefits, and disadvantages. It also highlights sustainable development strategies, such as Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) and Source-to-Sea (S2S) approaches, community-based management, and hybrid strategies integrating Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) and engineered solutions. This paper also identifies the best practices, stresses gaps in the current methodologies, and provides practical recommendations to strengthen resilience and sustainability, drawing on global case studies. Finally, the need to integrate new technologies, participatory governance, and adaptive management requirements is emphasized, serving as a guide towards policymaking, and practices on how to deal with the development of water resource challenges.
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