Assela Pathirana

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the case of a typical third world city, Can Tho (the biggest city in Mekong River Delta, Vietnam) faced with multiple future challenges, namely: (i) the likely effect of climate change-driven sea level rise, (ii) an expected increase of river runoff due to climate change as estimated by the Vietnamese government, (iii) increased urban runoff driven by imperviousness, and (iv) enhancement of extreme rainfall due to urban growth-driven, microclimatic change (urban heat islands).

TL;DR: There are still many limitations in understanding of how to describe precipitation patterns in a changing climate in order to design and operate urban drainage infrastructure, and climate change may well be the driver that ensures that changes in urban drainage paradigms are identified and suitable solutions implemented.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present new guidelines for the design and control of intermittent water distribution systems in developing countries, which are driven by a modified set of design objectives to be met at least cost.

TL;DR: It is argued that responsible adaptation requires an alternative method that effectively allows for the lack of knowledge about future climate change by adopting a managed/adaptive strategy, and RIO analysis applied for the first time to urban drainage infrastructure is shown.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the impact of urban growth driven landuse change on the changes in the extreme rainfall in and around cities, by means of sensitivity studies, and conduct three sets of controlled numerical experiments using a mesoscale atmospheric model coupled with a land surface model to investigate the hypothesis that the increasing urbanisation causes a significant increase of extreme rainfall values.