Urban Rain Flood Ecosystem Design Planning and Feasibility Study for the Enrichment of Smart Cities

Yixin Zhou, Ashutosh Sharma, Mehedi Masud, Gurjot Singh Gaba, Gaurav Dhiman, Kayhan Zrar Ghafoor and Mohammed A. AlZain
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Yixin Zhou: College of Water Conservancy and Civil Engineering, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
Ashutosh Sharma: Institute of Computer Technology and Information Security, Southern Federal University, 344006 Rostov Oblast, Russia
Mehedi Masud: Department of Computer Science, College of Computers and Information Technology, Taif University, Taif 21944, Saudi Arabia
Gurjot Singh Gaba: School of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara 144411, India
Gaurav Dhiman: Government Bikram College of Commerce, Punjab 147001, India
Kayhan Zrar Ghafoor: Department of Computer Science, Knowledge University, Erbil 44001, Iraq
Mohammed A. AlZain: Department of Information Technology, College of Computers and Information Technology, Taif University, Taif 21944, Saudi Arabia

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 9, 1-15

Abstract: The urban flooding situations have arisen in the modern scenario of urbanization due to climatic changes. This work contributes to designing a planned and feasible urban rain flood ecosystem to promote the construction of a sponge city. It has various advantages of improving the water environment, controlling urban waterlogging, reducing runoff pollution, improving river and lake water quality, recycling rainwater resources, replenishing groundwater, and many more. This paper combines the design methods and advantages of the design results formed in decades using traditional regulation and utilizing it for the present study. It reconstructs and integrates the traditional regulation and sponge city construction requirements, thereby providing a feasible urban rain-flood ecosystem in the industrial and smart city scenario. Finally, the regulation of new paddy areas in Yanjin city of China is considered for experimentation, and the design of the regulation is applied using this setup. The design results obtained from the test of sponge city construction have operability and can improve the urban environment and enhance the vitality of the city. The control plan’s design results integrating the sponge city idea can provide effective technical support and guarantee the overall urban environment. The work presented in this article can assess and plan the flood mitigation measures to monitor this type of situation leading to flooding risk reduction in smart cities.

Keywords: urban rain flood; ecosystems; smart city; sponge city; urban waterlogging; water resources; flood risk reduction; Yanjin city China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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