From what I have read there is much evidence that highlights the importance of groundwater to support urban life and the impact of urbanism on natural groundwater systems but is rarely considered in the thinking of the city system. The groundwater accounting exercises used here succeed in implying a link between groundwater processes and other municipal systems; Thus the potential benefits and unintended consequences of urban interventions on urban groundwater systems are defined and can be evaluated against other social and political considerations. For London, if a strategic future guided by existing operational practices and organizational needs will be revealed, we will look at preferential investments in industrial scale technologies such as wastewater treatment and storage and recovery of aquifers. While these interventions provide positive benefits under both future, the recognition that behavioral change offers the potential for a faster rate of sustainability transformation than ignored innovation technology.
We need to be guided by unlimited ideas and innovations and encourage more community joint ventures and exclusion and invite city practitioners to inform implementation paths that take into account the social context in addition to environmental constraints and business drivers. For London, by adopting such an aspirational vision, there is a greater chance to deliver benefits through community-led actions such as sustainable drainage and green infrastructure and water efficiency measures at home.
For more aspirational urban water interventions to be implemented in cities, we need to encourage systemic, quantitative evaluation, evaluation of possible pathways, interventions and interactions.
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