Hard urban infrastructure systems, such as land transformation, water supplies, and electricity production, can extend well beyond a city's boundaries and affect distant aquatic ecosystems.

Urban hydrology is a rapidly evolving field that examines the complex interplay between natural water processes and the built environment. Increasing urbanisation and climate change have ...

To reach their conclusions, the researchers analyzed the hydrologic response -- the change in runoff volume and timing -- in three small, highly impervious urban sub-watersheds to "pulse" rainfall ...

“The problem of urban hydrology is caused by a thousand small cuts,” says Michael Kiparsky, director of the Wheeler Water Institute at UC Berkeley.

“The problem of urban hydrology is caused by a thousand small cuts,” says Michael Kiparsky, director of the Wheeler Water Institute at UC Berkeley.

After negotiation with Gov. Katie Hobbs, lawmakers have passed a bill to allow developers to build in Central Arizona using farmers' water rights.

Urban development in the eastern United States results in an increase in flash flooding in nearby streams, but in the arid West, urbanization has just the opposite effect, according to a ...

BENGALURU: Bengaluru’s concrete cover is a solid 87.6 per cent, having increased by 10 per cent over the past decade. This ...

"The other side of the urban hydrologic alteration coin is that we get these really, erosive flash flows at a much higher frequency — like every time it rains, we get these torrential flows ...

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