HESS Hydrology and Earth System Sciences HESS Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 1607-7938 Copernicus Publications Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/hess-12-1153-2008 The development of water services and their interaction with water resources in European and Brazilian cities Barraqué B. 1 Formiga Johnsson R. M. 2 Nogueira de Paiva Britto A. L. 3 Centre International de Recherches sur l'Environnement et le Développement, Paris, France State University of Rio de Janeiro/Environment and Sanitation Department (UERJ/DESMA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Federal University of Rio de Janeiro/Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism (UFRJ/FAU), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 26 08 2008 12 4 1153 1164 Copyright: © 2008 B. Barraqué et al. 2008 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is available from https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/12/1153/2008/hess-12-1153-2008.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/12/1153/2008/hess-12-1153-2008.pdf

The extension and complexity of large cities creates "urban water" and a related issue: public water services, including public water supply, sewage collection and treatment, and storm water control, had previously become a policy sector separate from water resource allocation issues thanks to water transport and treatment technologies. Large metropolitan areas today cannot take nature for granted anymore, and they need to protect water resources, if only to reduce the long term cost of transporting and treating water. In this paper, we compare the historical development of water services in European and Brazilian metropolitan areas, placing the technological developments in their geographic, socio-economic and political contexts. Our frame is to follow the successive contributions of civil engineering, sanitary engineering, and environmental engineering: the "quantity of water" and civil engineering paradigm allowed to mobilise water in and out of the city, and up the hills or the floors; in the "water quality" and chemical/sanitary engineering paradigm, water treatment gave more freedom to cities to take water from rivers closer to them, but also to reduce sewer discharge impacts; lastly, the environmental engineering paradigm proposes to overcome the supply side perspective, by introducing demand side management, water conservation, water allocation flexibilisation, and an integrated approach to water services, water resources management, and land use policies.

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