Real-time control technology for enhancing biofiltration performances and ecosystem functioning of decentralized bioretention cells

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Abstract

Urban stormwater management has become a major issue over the last decades for flood prevention as well as water resource preservation. The development of green infrastructures such as bioretention systems since the 1990s has often been reported as an effective means of runoff mitigation with subsequent conveyed pollutant capture. Nevertheless, climate change involving more frequent extreme weather events as well as the variety of emerging pollutants in urban runoff have put an increasing strain on bioretention processes. Within this context, this mini-review deals with the opportunity of upgrading vegetated bioretention systems with active control technology to enhance their pollutant treatment capacity through proper control of critical bioretention operational variables and relying on improved ecological functioning and resilience. It is envisioned that such nature-based solutions hybridized with real-time control technology would help to improve stormwater reuse for more sustainable urban water management within the nexus of water–energy–food and greenhouse gases in future cities.

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Técher, D. (2023). Real-time control technology for enhancing biofiltration performances and ecosystem functioning of decentralized bioretention cells. Water Science and Technology, 87(6), 1582–1586. https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2023.071

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