Stormwater drainage in urban areas has become a challenge due to the rapid and random growth of urban areas, removal of vegetation, reduction in the effectiveness of drainage infrastructure, and climate change. Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS), Low Impact Development (LID), Best Management Practices (BMP), Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) and the Sponge City Programme (SCP) are various aspects for urban stormwater management in a few parts of the world. Urban hydrology plays a vital role in the urban stormwater management system. However, optimal results can only be possible when the combined effect of climate change, land use patterns, reuse, treatment, ecology, and societal aspects are considered. There is a need to provide sustainable and resilient urban drainage systems to manage stormwater more efficiently. The present review has thoroughly discussed various features related to urban stormwater management, highlighted key drivers, identified knowledge gaps in each of the measures and/or practices, recommended future research needs of urban stormwater management to become sustainable and resilient. Integrated modelling approaches considering various key drivers including reuse and real time governance enables stormwater management to be sustainable and resilient in urban environments.

  • A review of the state of the art on integrated urban stormwater management (USWM) is presented.

  • Various aspects affecting integrated USWM including climate change, water quality, reuse and treatment perspectives of USW are discussed.

  • Various innovative, advanced integrated USWM measures and/or practices such as LID, BMP, SUDS, WSUD and SCP are reviewed.

  • Specified critical remarks and expressed views on future research needs for integrated USWM are given.

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The hydrology of a place influences the availability of water at that place. Various processes such as runoff, infiltration and evaporation associated with hydrologic cycle affect the presence, movement and distribution of precipitation in an area (Fletcher et al. 2013). Water is needed for different human activities and purposes and is becoming scarce due to poor management rather than availability. In this context, there is an increasing need for the management of water especially in urban areas where the water requirement is substantially higher. As stormwater is available from nature, conservation of stormwater is of utmost importance in urban environments and requires urgent attention. For effective and efficient stormwater management, there are various practices followed around the world. The present paper reviews the state of the art in different schemes for stormwater management, analysis of results for each of the schemes, specifies critical remarks and expresses views on future research needs. Stormwater management is becoming a challenge in various stages of its implementation, starting from the planning stage, due to expansion of the urban area, change in existing soil permeability characteristics by construction activities, decrease in vegetation, climate change, change in rainfall and subsequent runoff patterns.

Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) (Fryd et al. 2010; Zhou 2014; Ellis & Lundy 2016; Lim & Lu 2016; Casal-Campos et al. 2018; Arahuetes and Cantos 2019; Altobelli et al. 2020; Kändler et al. 2020; Lin et al. 2020; Kwon et al. 2020; Hager et al. 2021), Low Impact Development (LID) and Best Management Practices (BMP) (Strecker et al. 2001; Dietz 2007; Motsinger et al. 2016; Mani et al. 2019; Nowogoński 2020; Men et al. 2020; Song et al. 2020; Zhang et al. 2020a, 2020b; Khurelbaatar et al. 2021), Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) (Lariyah et al. 2011; Beecham & Razzaghmanesh 2015; Siekmann & Siekmann 2015; Marino et al. 2018; Ahmed et al. 2019) and Sponge City Programmes (SCP) (Wang et al. 2018) are some of the stormwater management schemes that are being adopted in different countries.

SUDS, WSUD and LID concepts have related aims such as managing the urban water through a sustainable approach, preserving the flow conditions close to nature, maintaining the water quality and that of receiving waters, and conserving water resources overall (Fletcher et al. 2013). BMP cover practices that contain non-structural (procedural or operational) and structural (engineered or built infrastructure) characteristics (Fletcher et al. 2015).

The SCP is meant to enhance urban water resilience due to growth and climate change with the key goals of mitigation of waterlogging and floods, enhancement of quality of water, refurbishment of the water's role on ecology, use of rainwater as a resource and improving the microclimate of urban environments (Wang et al. 2018).

Novel aspects of the review

Although there have been various reviews on the subject (Hatt et al. 2006; Chouli 2006; Dietz 2007; Roy et al. 2008; Gabe et al. 2009; Fletcher et al. 2013; Hamel et al. 2013; Zhou 2014; Ellis & Lundy 2016; Sörensen et al. 2016; Ahammed 2017; Palazzo 2018; Mishra et al. 2020), the present review is novel in considering various aspects for urban stormwater management to value-add prevailing measures and practices to be more sustainable and resilient. The aspects related to urban stormwater management such as LID, BMP, SUDS/SuDS and the SCP are reviewed with regard to knowledge gaps and future research needs which brings novelty to the present review in covering all the existing measures and practices of urban stormwater management and further proposing the application of real-time governance and reuse options that enhance the present review to the next level regarding urban stormwater management. Also, climate change aspects, urbanization aspects and their impacts on urban hydrology and ecology, water quantity and quality characteristics are reviewed thoroughly and we recommended various options to improve present measures and practices for urban stormwater management to be sustainable and resilient. The present review is also described in the form of tables (Tables 13) and figures (Figures 1 and 2) for better and easy interpretation. Table 4 presents key drivers of integrated urban stormwater management. Thus, overall, the present review is certainly and thoroughly novel in the review of urban stormwater management with discussion, review, mentioning key drivers, highlighting knowledge gaps and suggesting future research needs for various measures and practices to attain integrated, sustainable and resilient urban stormwater management.

Table 1

Review of research on integrated stormwater management

ReferenceYearMain aspectOther aspectsApplicationFindings
Khurelbaatar et al.  (2021)  LID  MUST- B Capacity of urban stormwater management 
Dubey et al.  (2020)  Hydrology Climate change SWAT Evapotranspiration 
Men et al.  (2020)  Low Impact Development (LID) Preference-inspired co-evolutionary algorithm using goal vectors (PICEA-g) SWMM LIDs for Sponge City 
Nowogoński  (2020)  Low Impact Development (LID)  SWMM LIDs for imperviousness reduction 
Song et al.  (2020)  Low Impact Development (LID) Reliability evaluation technique  Performance of existing systems for flood disasters 
Zhang et al.  (2020a, 2020bLID Interdisciplinary criterion SWMM Assessment of stormwater control for runoff volume 
Anim et al.  (2019)  Stream hydraulics  2D Hydraulics Model Benefits of Stormwater Control Measures (SCMs) 
Zang et al.  (2019)  Hydrology Land use SWAT Daily flood peak and annual runoff 
Mani et al.  (2019)  Hydrology Flood mitigation SWMM, MOALOA LID Stormwater Control Measures (SCMs) 
Motsinger et al.  (2016)  Best Management Practice (BMP) Water quality  Impact of various BMPs implementation 
Kang et al.  (2016)  Urban drainage Climate change XP-SWMM Climate change 
Saraswat et al.  (2016)  Hydrology Climate change  Runoff 
Liu et al.  (2016)  Hydrology Water quality  Runoff 
Zhu et al.  (2016)  Hydrology Water quality Projection pursuit method, ordinary Kriging method Flooding risks 
Costa et al.  (2015)  Hydrology Water quality MT3DMS Integrated Urban (IU) river corridor management 
Hung Chang and Irvine  (2014)  Rainfall Extremes   Floods and droughts 
Teemusk & Mander and Lee et al.  (2007), (2013Hydrology Green roof  Runoff 
Ficklin et al.  (2013)  Hydrology Sedimentation SWAT BMP 
Fletcher et al.  (2013)  Hydrology Water quality  ISWM 
Hamel et al.  (2013)  Hydrology Urbanization  Baseflow 
Dessu & Melesse  (2012)  Hydrology  SWAT Rainfall–Runoff simulation 
Dixon & Earls  (2012)  Hydrology Land Use SWAT Hydrographs 
Hirschman et al.  (2011)  Hydrology Climate change  Stormwater management 
Huong & Pathirana  (2011)  Flooding Climate change EPA-SWMM 5 with Brezo Runoff 
Singh and Gosain  (2011)  Hydrology Climate change SWAT Climate change 
Ghaffari et al.  (2010)  Hydrology Land use SWAT Runoff 
Mejia & Moglen  (2010)  Hydrology Hydrographs  Impervious pattern 
Davis et al.  (2009)  Bioretention Hydrologic, water quality and environmental issues  State of contemporary acquaintance of bioretention 
Bormann et al.  (2009)  Hydrology Land use SWAT and TOPLATS Land use scenarios 
Dhar & Mazumdar  (2009)  Hydrology  SWAT Assessment of projected parameters for farming operations 
Nie et al.  (2009)  Flooding Climate change MOUSE Precipitation 
Semadeni-Davies et al.  (2008)  Climate change and urbanization  MOUSE (MOdel of Urban SEwers) Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) 
Wang et al.  (2008)  Hydrology Climate change and land use SWAT Runoff 
Wilby et al.  (2008)  Hydrology Climate change  Flood frequency 
Roy et al.  (2008)  Stormwater Management   Sustainable Stormwater Management 
Dietz  (2007)  Low Impact Development (LID)   Review of the current condition and research needs of LID 
Van Rooijen et al.  (2005)  Hydrology Water supply, Irrigation VENSIM Water balance 
Strecker et al.  (2001)  Best Management Practice (BMP)   BMP efficiency 
ReferenceYearMain aspectOther aspectsApplicationFindings
Khurelbaatar et al.  (2021)  LID  MUST- B Capacity of urban stormwater management 
Dubey et al.  (2020)  Hydrology Climate change SWAT Evapotranspiration 
Men et al.  (2020)  Low Impact Development (LID) Preference-inspired co-evolutionary algorithm using goal vectors (PICEA-g) SWMM LIDs for Sponge City 
Nowogoński  (2020)  Low Impact Development (LID)  SWMM LIDs for imperviousness reduction 
Song et al.  (2020)  Low Impact Development (LID) Reliability evaluation technique  Performance of existing systems for flood disasters 
Zhang et al.  (2020a, 2020bLID Interdisciplinary criterion SWMM Assessment of stormwater control for runoff volume 
Anim et al.  (2019)  Stream hydraulics  2D Hydraulics Model Benefits of Stormwater Control Measures (SCMs) 
Zang et al.  (2019)  Hydrology Land use SWAT Daily flood peak and annual runoff 
Mani et al.  (2019)  Hydrology Flood mitigation SWMM, MOALOA LID Stormwater Control Measures (SCMs) 
Motsinger et al.  (2016)  Best Management Practice (BMP) Water quality  Impact of various BMPs implementation 
Kang et al.  (2016)  Urban drainage Climate change XP-SWMM Climate change 
Saraswat et al.  (2016)  Hydrology Climate change  Runoff 
Liu et al.  (2016)  Hydrology Water quality  Runoff 
Zhu et al.  (2016)  Hydrology Water quality Projection pursuit method, ordinary Kriging method Flooding risks 
Costa et al.  (2015)  Hydrology Water quality MT3DMS Integrated Urban (IU) river corridor management 
Hung Chang and Irvine  (2014)  Rainfall Extremes   Floods and droughts 
Teemusk & Mander and Lee et al.  (2007), (2013Hydrology Green roof  Runoff 
Ficklin et al.  (2013)  Hydrology Sedimentation SWAT BMP 
Fletcher et al.  (2013)  Hydrology Water quality  ISWM 
Hamel et al.  (2013)  Hydrology Urbanization  Baseflow 
Dessu & Melesse  (2012)  Hydrology  SWAT Rainfall–Runoff simulation 
Dixon & Earls  (2012)  Hydrology Land Use SWAT Hydrographs 
Hirschman et al.  (2011)  Hydrology Climate change  Stormwater management 
Huong & Pathirana  (2011)  Flooding Climate change EPA-SWMM 5 with Brezo Runoff 
Singh and Gosain  (2011)  Hydrology Climate change SWAT Climate change 
Ghaffari et al.  (2010)  Hydrology Land use SWAT Runoff 
Mejia & Moglen  (2010)  Hydrology Hydrographs  Impervious pattern 
Davis et al.  (2009)  Bioretention Hydrologic, water quality and environmental issues  State of contemporary acquaintance of bioretention 
Bormann et al.  (2009)  Hydrology Land use SWAT and TOPLATS Land use scenarios 
Dhar & Mazumdar  (2009)  Hydrology  SWAT Assessment of projected parameters for farming operations 
Nie et al.  (2009)  Flooding Climate change MOUSE Precipitation 
Semadeni-Davies et al.  (2008)  Climate change and urbanization  MOUSE (MOdel of Urban SEwers) Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) 
Wang et al.  (2008)  Hydrology Climate change and land use SWAT Runoff 
Wilby et al.  (2008)  Hydrology Climate change  Flood frequency 
Roy et al.  (2008)  Stormwater Management   Sustainable Stormwater Management 
Dietz  (2007)  Low Impact Development (LID)   Review of the current condition and research needs of LID 
Van Rooijen et al.  (2005)  Hydrology Water supply, Irrigation VENSIM Water balance 
Strecker et al.  (2001)  Best Management Practice (BMP)   BMP efficiency 
Table 2

Review of research on various water management and other aspects/practices

ReferenceYearAspects studiedFindings/outcomes
Hager et al.  (2021)  Integrated framework Decision support system for urban stormwater 
Altobelli et al.  (2020)  Optimal management of urban drainage systems (UDS) Real-time control and green technologies 
Bell et al.  (2020)  BMPs Runoff control factors 
Deng  (2020)  Low-cost adsorbents Treatment of urban stormwater 
Kändler et al.  (2020)  Smart in-line storage system Real time controlled actuators 
Lin et al.  (2020)  Framework for UDS (urban drainage systems) design Enhancement of optimization efficiency of UDS 
Lam et al.  (2020)  SWMPs (Stormwater management ponds) Chloride retention quantification and release 
Kwon et al.  (2020)  Urban drainage systems (UDS) A two-phase multi-scenario approach 
Zabłocka & Capodaglio  (2020)  Sustainable SWM Retention tank 
Arahuetes and Cantos  (2019)  SuDS Climate change adaptations 
Casal-Campos et al.  (2018UDScapacity Key perceptions of UDS 
Wang et al.  (2018)  IUWM Review of Sponge City 
Li et al.  (2016)  Water quality and land use Landscape thresholds 
Sörensen et al.  (2016)  Urban resilience with integrated flood management Urban flood resilience 
Ellis & Lundy  (2016)  SUDS Practices examination 
Lim & Lu  (2016)  Small-scale distributed LID features Evaluation of Singapore's ABC Waters Program 
Buurman & Babovic  (2015)  A step-wise approach for designing adaptive systems Urban water resilience 
Beecham & Razzaghmanesh  (2015)  Water quantity and quality Green roof systems 
Zhou  (2014)  SUDS Emerging studies 
Liu et al.  (2013)  Water quality, urbanization The threshold between Impervious surface area [ISA] and the chemical indicators of water quality 
Davis et al.  (2010)  Water quality Urban stormwater quality improvement methods 
Fryd et al.  (2010)  Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) Planning and decision making processes 
Gabe et al.  (2009)  A top-down ‘planner's approach’ and a bottom-up ‘community approach Integrated Urban Water Management (IUWM) 
Hatt et al.  (2007)  Water quality Biofilters 
Tortajada  (2006)  Water management practices and strategies Need for implementing latest technologies, efficient use of limited water resources, proper watershed management, practicing water conservation measures 
Hatt et al.  (2006)  Water quality Treatment methods for stormwater pollution control 
Goonetilleke et al.  (2005)  Water quality Relationships between water quality and urban form 
Chui  (1997Water quality Runoff 
Cheong  (1991Water quality Runoff 
ReferenceYearAspects studiedFindings/outcomes
Hager et al.  (2021)  Integrated framework Decision support system for urban stormwater 
Altobelli et al.  (2020)  Optimal management of urban drainage systems (UDS) Real-time control and green technologies 
Bell et al.  (2020)  BMPs Runoff control factors 
Deng  (2020)  Low-cost adsorbents Treatment of urban stormwater 
Kändler et al.  (2020)  Smart in-line storage system Real time controlled actuators 
Lin et al.  (2020)  Framework for UDS (urban drainage systems) design Enhancement of optimization efficiency of UDS 
Lam et al.  (2020)  SWMPs (Stormwater management ponds) Chloride retention quantification and release 
Kwon et al.  (2020)  Urban drainage systems (UDS) A two-phase multi-scenario approach 
Zabłocka & Capodaglio  (2020)  Sustainable SWM Retention tank 
Arahuetes and Cantos  (2019)  SuDS Climate change adaptations 
Casal-Campos et al.  (2018UDScapacity Key perceptions of UDS 
Wang et al.  (2018)  IUWM Review of Sponge City 
Li et al.  (2016)  Water quality and land use Landscape thresholds 
Sörensen et al.  (2016)  Urban resilience with integrated flood management Urban flood resilience 
Ellis & Lundy  (2016)  SUDS Practices examination 
Lim & Lu  (2016)  Small-scale distributed LID features Evaluation of Singapore's ABC Waters Program 
Buurman & Babovic  (2015)  A step-wise approach for designing adaptive systems Urban water resilience 
Beecham & Razzaghmanesh  (2015)  Water quantity and quality Green roof systems 
Zhou  (2014)  SUDS Emerging studies 
Liu et al.  (2013)  Water quality, urbanization The threshold between Impervious surface area [ISA] and the chemical indicators of water quality 
Davis et al.  (2010)  Water quality Urban stormwater quality improvement methods 
Fryd et al.  (2010)  Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) Planning and decision making processes 
Gabe et al.  (2009)  A top-down ‘planner's approach’ and a bottom-up ‘community approach Integrated Urban Water Management (IUWM) 
Hatt et al.  (2007)  Water quality Biofilters 
Tortajada  (2006)  Water management practices and strategies Need for implementing latest technologies, efficient use of limited water resources, proper watershed management, practicing water conservation measures 
Hatt et al.  (2006)  Water quality Treatment methods for stormwater pollution control 
Goonetilleke et al.  (2005)  Water quality Relationships between water quality and urban form 
Chui  (1997Water quality Runoff 
Cheong  (1991Water quality Runoff 
Table 3

Review of research on stormwater reuse and treatment

ReferenceStudy
Valenca et al. (2021)  Capability of biochar for removal of the Escherichia coli (E. coli
Valentukevičienė & Najafabadi (2020) and Zhang et al. (2020a, 2020bApplication of different sorbents 
Tuttolomondo et al. (2020)  Reuse of treated wastewater from wetlands 
Zhang et al. (2020a, 2020b)  Suspended solids removal 
Trajkovic et al. (2020)  LID techniques for removal of pollutants 
Ekka et al. (2020)  Grass swales, sediment and heavy metal removal 
Zabłocka & Capodaglio (2020)  Retention tank 
Rodak et al. (2020)  Stormwater control devices 
Zhang et al. (2020a, 2020b) and Kog (2020)  Application of membranes for high-quality reclaimed water 
Zhan et al. (2020)  Cost–effectiveness of treatment system design for stormwater reuse 
Ahmed et al. (2019)  Removal of fecal indicators and pathogens 
Ahmed et al. (2019)  Efficiency of different risk assessments with stormwater reuse 
Montazerolhodjah (2019)  Low-impact urban design and development (LIUDD) 
Shen et al. (2019)  Real-time control (RTC) strategies for biofilters 
Jung et al. (2019) and Hatt et al. (2007)  Application of biofilters to greywater treatment and reuse 
Rufino et al. (2018) and Marino et al. (2018)  Participatory approach for WSUD 
Goonetilleke et al. (2017), Gogate & Raval (2015), Maneewan & Roon (2017), and Muirhead (2008)  Key obstacles to stormwater reuse 
Ishimatsu et al. (2017)  Rain gardens 
Ding (2017)  BMP effectiveness for reuse of stormwater 
Glover et al. (2019)  Treatment of N-nitrosomorpholine (NMOR) for potable reuse 
Kazemi & Hill (2015)  Permeable pavement basecourse aggregates 
Lariyah et al. (2011)  Overall performance of WSUD 
Maharaj & Scholz (2010)  Biochemical oxygen demand, total coliform 
Begum & Rasul (2009)  Green gully 
Pétavy et al. (2007)  Bulk sediment re-use after the treatment 
Chouli (2006)  Source control techniques 
ReferenceStudy
Valenca et al. (2021)  Capability of biochar for removal of the Escherichia coli (E. coli
Valentukevičienė & Najafabadi (2020) and Zhang et al. (2020a, 2020bApplication of different sorbents 
Tuttolomondo et al. (2020)  Reuse of treated wastewater from wetlands 
Zhang et al. (2020a, 2020b)  Suspended solids removal 
Trajkovic et al. (2020)  LID techniques for removal of pollutants 
Ekka et al. (2020)  Grass swales, sediment and heavy metal removal 
Zabłocka & Capodaglio (2020)  Retention tank 
Rodak et al. (2020)  Stormwater control devices 
Zhang et al. (2020a, 2020b) and Kog (2020)  Application of membranes for high-quality reclaimed water 
Zhan et al. (2020)  Cost–effectiveness of treatment system design for stormwater reuse 
Ahmed et al. (2019)  Removal of fecal indicators and pathogens 
Ahmed et al. (2019)  Efficiency of different risk assessments with stormwater reuse 
Montazerolhodjah (2019)  Low-impact urban design and development (LIUDD) 
Shen et al. (2019)  Real-time control (RTC) strategies for biofilters 
Jung et al. (2019) and Hatt et al. (2007)  Application of biofilters to greywater treatment and reuse 
Rufino et al. (2018) and Marino et al. (2018)  Participatory approach for WSUD 
Goonetilleke et al. (2017), Gogate & Raval (2015), Maneewan & Roon (2017), and Muirhead (2008)  Key obstacles to stormwater reuse 
Ishimatsu et al. (2017)  Rain gardens 
Ding (2017)  BMP effectiveness for reuse of stormwater 
Glover et al. (2019)  Treatment of N-nitrosomorpholine (NMOR) for potable reuse 
Kazemi & Hill (2015)  Permeable pavement basecourse aggregates 
Lariyah et al. (2011)  Overall performance of WSUD 
Maharaj & Scholz (2010)  Biochemical oxygen demand, total coliform 
Begum & Rasul (2009)  Green gully 
Pétavy et al. (2007)  Bulk sediment re-use after the treatment 
Chouli (2006)  Source control techniques 
Table 4

Key drivers of integrated urban stormwater management

Key driverCharacteristics
Data Data need to be available for the period of model development at regular and continuous intervals. Also, data needs to be reliable, accurate, and suit the purpose of study both in space and time. 
Model development Model can be developed on the intent of the study as quantitative and qualitative. Also, model can be prepared as conceptual, detailed, deterministic and stochastic considering various other influencing parameters and required outcomes of the study. 
Assessment of model Developed model needs to be assessed with proper calibration, validation and uncertainty analysis and techniques. 
Process Aspects that can be ascertained from the model may be of hydrology, hydraulics, ecology, societal and economics etc. Furthermore, each of these aspects may be subcategorized and prioritized based on the requirements of the study. 
Monitoring and maintenance of system Way of implementation of the developed model needs to be monitored at regular intervals to check its adequacy with regard to setting objectives. Also, periodic maintenance has to be performed with proper methods, approaches that can make the system serve with expected efficiency for longer duration. 
Reuse Stormwater reuse after treatment needs to be analyzed as there is increasing water stress in urban areas. 
Application of real-time technologies Latest technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are to be applied for real-time data, monitoring and control of water quantity and quality, assessment of climate change and land use/land cover impacts on stormwater. 
Key driverCharacteristics
Data Data need to be available for the period of model development at regular and continuous intervals. Also, data needs to be reliable, accurate, and suit the purpose of study both in space and time. 
Model development Model can be developed on the intent of the study as quantitative and qualitative. Also, model can be prepared as conceptual, detailed, deterministic and stochastic considering various other influencing parameters and required outcomes of the study. 
Assessment of model Developed model needs to be assessed with proper calibration, validation and uncertainty analysis and techniques. 
Process Aspects that can be ascertained from the model may be of hydrology, hydraulics, ecology, societal and economics etc. Furthermore, each of these aspects may be subcategorized and prioritized based on the requirements of the study. 
Monitoring and maintenance of system Way of implementation of the developed model needs to be monitored at regular intervals to check its adequacy with regard to setting objectives. Also, periodic maintenance has to be performed with proper methods, approaches that can make the system serve with expected efficiency for longer duration. 
Reuse Stormwater reuse after treatment needs to be analyzed as there is increasing water stress in urban areas. 
Application of real-time technologies Latest technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are to be applied for real-time data, monitoring and control of water quantity and quality, assessment of climate change and land use/land cover impacts on stormwater. 
Figure 1

Flow chart of urban hydrology characteristics study.

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Flow chart of urban hydrology characteristics study.

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Figure 2

Process diagram of integrated urban stormwater management.

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Process diagram of integrated urban stormwater management.

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LID refers to the principles, techniques and practices that can be adapted to develop certain urban activities duly maintaining the equilibrium of natural processes and resources.

LID and Low-Impact Urban Design and Development (LIUDD) are methods for urban development that use various urban planning and design policies and strategies to conserve natural resource systems and reduce infrastructure costs with a cost-effective approach and mitigate potential environmental impacts (Montazerolhodjah 2019).

Various studies have been designed for the application LID and BMP (Motsinger et al. 2016). Certain LID options have been found to be effective such as pervious pavements and bioretention (Dietz 2007; Davis et al. 2009). Bioretention practice, although effective, needs to be associated with hydrologic, water quality and environmental aspects (Davis et al. 2009). Also, BMPs may be applied to water quality for better treatment performance (Motsinger et al. 2016). Various approaches exist for implementation of LID and to make them BMP. However, LID implementation is affected by associated problems (Strecker et al. 2001). During implementation, certain limitations were found while practicing LIDs such as high contaminant loading areas, steep slopes, rock depth and rise of water table (Dietz 2007). Thus, there is a continuous need for carrying out research on LID and BMPs for efficient implementation (Dietz 2007). Furthermore, LID approaches had been continuously studied for their integration with various novel techniques for better performance and wide range of applications. Rain barrels, permeable walkways or bioretention reservoirs have been applied by combining LID with StormWater Management Models (SWMM) for reduction of catchment imperviousness (Nowogoński 2020). In the Sponge City, SWMM was integrated with a preference-inspired co-evolutionary algorithm using goal vectors (PICEA-g) for LID practices (Men et al. 2020). An approach combined with SWMM and the multi-objective antilon optimization algorithm (MOALOA) was applied to recognize stormwater control measures (SCMs) as LID for control of runoff and mitigation of flood (Mani et al. 2019). Also, assessment of performance of LID techniques had been carried. An evaluation of the performance of existing systems for flood disasters using the distance measure method may be carried (Song et al. 2020). Also, an appraisal of LID performance for stormwater control can be perfomed using SWMM with an interdisciplinary criterion (Zhang et al. 2020a, 2020b). Furthermore, the evaluation of stormwater management at block level in urban areas with LIDs may be performed (Khurelbaatar et al. 2021).

However, the application of various LID and BMPs for holistic urban stormwater management needs to be studied in much more detail with advanced and novel approaches such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) for real-time monitoring and control of water quantity and water quality to enhance stormwater system performance concerning sustainable and resilient measures and practices.

The quality of input data is very much impacting parameters for modelling flows (Bormann et al. 2009). Also, a realistic representation of scenarios of land use and the application of proper techniques for interpolation and representation of boundary conditions of meteorology is very vital for the representation of data input (Bormann et al. 2009). Uncertainty remains the bottleneck and needs to be properly accounted for in flow analysis even from the assessment of errors in precipitation and peak flows (Wilby et al. 2008). The determination of frequencies of extreme flows needs assessed for varied characteristics of climate change and the responses of the surface of the land to hydrological parameters (Wilby et al. 2008).

Runoff varies with land use type and in reaches in mountains, and runoff is increased with more grassland area and less forested areas (Wang et al. 2008). Although runoff depends on precipitation, flow varies with temperature more during the melting of snow in spring (Wang et al. 2008). The response of hydrology to changes in land cover is not linear and shows a threshold tendency (Ghaffari et al. 2010). Surface runoff abruptly becomes more when rangeland removal is more than 60% and this threshold is applicable even in the recharge process of groundwater (Ghaffari et al. 2010).

The local area assessment is significant to find impacts of climate change on urban hydrology with regard to topography, lithology, drainage areas recognition and land use/land cover variations and thus for the determination of the runoff coefficient (Saraswat et al. 2016). If runoff reduces through infiltration and further recharge of groundwater, then LID practices become more resilient to climate change impacts (Hirschman et al. 2011). The changes in flood peak on a daily scale in scenarios of high precipitation remain the same as that in the scenario of average precipitation on modelling at the daily scale (Zang et al. 2019). The assessment needs to be quantitative in nature in case of more flood hazards, which is significant for urban planning and to prepare for disasters (Huong & Pathirana 2011).

Scenarios of climate change need to be well defined for urban hydrology to assess its impacts on flooding and combined sewer overflows (CSO) (Nie et al. 2009). Climate change may result in more stormwater inflows and infiltration into sewers and cause decrease in system capacity (Semadeni-Davies et al. 2008). Adaptation to climate change scenarios may be possible with the application of SUDS and not allowing stormwater into combined sewers (Semadeni-Davies et al. 2008).

Climate change may impact certain parameters such as loss of transmission, water content of soil, potential evapotranspiration, evapotranspiration and reach lateral flow of river basins with the increasing trend for future scenarios (Dhar & Mazumdar 2009). The impacts of climate change on river basin hydrology were assessed to be vital on an annual scale (Singh & Gosain 2011; Dessu & Melesse 2012; Ficklin et al. 2013; Dubey et al. 2020). Impacts of climate change are more important than those due to land cover changes (Hirschman et al. 2011; Huong & Pathirana 2011).

There are certain vital adaptations of stormwater to climate change, which are the development of roads and sidewalks using porous materials, enhanced capacity of stormwater to cater for water supply and frequent flooding increase, revisions to stormwater design criteria, revising transmission systems with regard to sea levels and improving the infrastructure of stormwater (Hirschman et al. 2011). There is a need for future research to assess the implications of actual and simulated meteorological data for long-term urban planning and the management of urban hydrology for efficient stormwater management (Dixon & Earls 2012).

A three-step preparedness program for extremes that includes Preparation (vulnerability and risk identification, adaptive capacity building, and monitoring), Response (information dissemination and relief action) and Recovery was recommended for management of rainfall extremes (Hung Chang & Irvine 2014). There are certain measures to mitigate urban floods such as raising the adjacent land level, pumping stations installation, and enhancing pipe performance (Kang et al. 2016). An enhanced pipe capacity may cater for increased urban flooding as an adaptation measure/practice to climate change (Kang et al. 2016).

However, there is a need to study the impacts of climate change and urbanization on regional hydrology in much more detail with more accurate and relevant data at the local scale even after downscaling. Furthermore, stormwater management has to be studied for sustainable and resilient measures and practices to accommodate extreme events and for combined effects. The application of integrated models for climate change impact assessment, varying land use, urban floods and on entire urban hydrology needs to be highlighted for urban stormwater management to be efficient.

Also, as evapotranspiration has vital role for hydrology of urban environments, it becomes complex for the development of methods to model and compute evapotranspiration. Thus, this area needs to be studied in much more detail for accurate interpretation of urban hydrologic cycles.

Urbanization processes such as increased imperviousness modifies local water balance and improves flow for downstream (Van Rooijen et al. 2005). Imperviousness affects hydrological response with regard to its spatial extent and thus there is a need to consider spatial patterns of precipitation and impervious areas to find the hydrological response of catchments of urban environments (Mejia & Moglen 2010). High intensity–short duration rainfall events are the key drivers for stormwater treatment design (Liu et al. 2016). Impervious surface connection to the receiving water governs hydrologic behaviour of urban basins (Fletcher et al. 2013). When there are considerable overland flow lines between the area of imperviousness and the receiving waters then the hydrologic response of the impervious surface likely recedes (Fletcher et al. 2013).

Stormwater source control technologies may be applied which are ecologically relevant and realistic to find the impacts of urbanization on baseflow variations (Hamel et al. 2013).

Also, there is a need for integrated planning of urban river corridor management considering groundwater and water quality as well for sustainable solutions for stormwater management (Costa et al. 2015).

Constraints to sustainable urban stormwater management are (Roy et al. 2008): (1) uncertainties in performance and cost, (2) inadequate engineering standards and guidelines, (3) disjointed responsibilities, (4) lack of institutional capability, (5) lack of legislative directive, (6) lack of financial support and effective market encouragements, and (7) confrontation to change (Source: Roy et al. 2008)

Solutions to sustainable urban stormwater management are (Roy et al. 2008): (1) Carry out research on costs and catchment-scale performance, (2) produce a model ordinance and support guidance articles, (3) combine management across levels of government and the cycle of water, (4) extend targeted workshops to train professionals, (5) apply grassroots attempts to acquire support for ordinances and rules, (6) attend to barriers in market methods to give funding mechanisms, (7) teach and appoint the public through actions (Source: Roy et al. 2008).

Risk-based integrated SWMM are to be applied to qualitatively and quantitatively assess the inundation risks in urban drainage systems (UDS) (Zhu et al. 2016). Stormwater management which can make complete retention, collection and infiltration of surface runoff will have a considerable impact if the runoff volume becomes nearly the same as that prior to urbanization (Anim et al. 2019). Green roofs may increase the quality of urban runoff by absorption and filtration processes and also release pollutants into water (Teemusk & Mander 2007; Lee et al. 2013). Membranes may be extensively applied in integrated processes to produce high-quality reclaimed water (Zhang et al. 2020a).

Modelling flows below and close to the ground surface still remains a complex phenomenon and the accurate assessment of subsurface flows needs to be studied in much detail. However, furthermore, there is a need to study integrated stormwater management with holistic models for quantitative and qualitative analysis of urban hydrology in much more detail.

Sequentional Purification Systems with sedimentation, biogeochemical and wetland zones with biodegradable geofibers would augment the efficiency of purification with ecohydrological operations for urban areas with blue-green environments to adapt to climate change (Zalewski et al. 2012). Approaches using nature-based solutions (NBS) are resilient and adaptable for urban ecosystem management (Krauze & Wagner 2019). There is a need for a three-fold target with enabling, restoring or preserving nature for urban environments to be sustainable in the context of ecosystems of urban waters (Krauze & Wagner 2019). There are various drivers of water ecosystems for efficient integrated urban water resources management (IUWRM) (Wagner & Breil 2013). Integration of ecosystem methods in urban environments would build cities to be more resilient (Wagner & Breil 2013). Utilization of rivers in urban areas enhances stormwater management to be more resilient (Wagner & Breil 2013). The principles of ecohydrology offer a framework for management of urban water (Zalewski & Wagner 2005). Integrated urban water management Integrated Urban Water Management (IUWM) with ecohydrology aspects would decrease peak flows, and enhance stormwater quality (Zalewski & Wagner 2005). There is a need for integration of aquatic ecosystems and greenery in urban areas for enhanced urban water management and to improve the mechanisms of protection of habitats against the impacts in urban environments (Zalewski & Wagner 2014). A system of hybrids (collective of engineering and biological measures) with an underground separator system with a sequential sedimentation–biofiltration system (SSBS) is capable of decreasing the hydraulic stress due to peak flows and mitigated flows for precipitation of less than 9 mm (Jurczak et al. 2018). SSBS are efficient for treating an urban river with significant stormwater inflows and the geochemical barrier and biofiltration zone each extensively enhance overall efficiency (Szklarek et al. 2018). Various conventional water quality restoration methods and comprehensive ecohydrological restoration methods such as SSBS may be applied for urban rivers with stormwater inflow (Jurczak et al. 2019). Restoration enhances the majority of the indicators of water quality in general (Jurczak et al. 2019). The combined LID optimal scenario with the proportions of rain garden as 3.75%, green roof as 3.75%, and permeable pavement as 7.5% have better regulatory effects than a single facility of LID for sponge cities (Gao et al. 2021). The Sponge City optimization scheme with LID can efficiently lessen non-point source pollutants of nutrients in receiving water (Yang & Dong 2021).

Table 1 presents a list of research on various aspects of integrated stormwater management with applications used and outcomes.

Efficient utilization of inadequate water resources in an economical manner, adapting to the recent technological approaches to develop ‘new’ water sources, increasing storage capacities by appropriate watershed management, implementing water management measures, and accounting present social, environmental and economic factors are the key drivers for sustainable and resilient urban water management including stormwater management (Tortajada 2006).

Urban resilience is an adaptive process for society to learn in an unremitting manner to manage with varying socioeconomic situations, land use of urban and climate change (Sörensen et al. 2016). A framework method which combines high level targets with quantifiable indicators needs to be adapted for efficient urban stormwater management (Gabe et al. 2009). Indicators are to be recognized on two varied approaches i.e. a top-down ‘planner's approach’ and a bottom-up ‘community approach’ for urban development and IUWM (Gabe et al. 2009). Another high level framework which is a stepwise approach with policymaking to adapt pathways for adaptation and analysis of real options may also be applied for designing adaptive systems for urban water resilience (Buurman & Babovic 2015).

The stepwise approach by Buurman & Babovic (2015) recognized that numerous investments to adapt to climate change are not investments of ‘now-or-never’ and are with a flexible approach to develop, reduce or revise. Also, the framework identified that investments for adaptation are infrequent investments of an ‘all-or-nothing’ nature, however they are options to extend price, profit and risk (Buurman & Babovic 2015).

More-informed decision-making is necessary to attain sustainable urban environmental management by recognizing the thresholds (Li et al. 2016). Urban flood risk management sets targets to assess and decrease flood risk and to prepare to respond and recover after real floods, with the intention of keeping disturbances and disruptions to minimum and developing resilient urban water management systems (Sörensen et al. 2016).

The ‘Sponge City’ as an IUWM strategy with integrated approaches, with consideration of all aspects of urban hydrology and anthropogenic as well as ecological requisites may be applied for IUWM (Wang et al. 2018).

However, there is a gap in studies on urban water management, specifically stormwater management, considering integrated models and application of the IoT and AI for accurate assessment of impacts of various drivers, real-time control (RTC) and supervision, which can enable urban stormwater management to be integrated and realistic.

Urban planning plays a vital role in protecting the urban water environments (Goonetilleke et al. 2005). Structural measures need to be adopted to reduce pollutants in urbanized basins and also the climatic and physical characteristics of the urban watershed area are to be significantly considered (Goonetilleke et al. 2005). High density urban development needs to result in a minimum footprint (Goonetilleke et al. 2005). Understanding and establishing thresholds between urbanization and water quality is the key driver for urban stormwater quality management (Liu et al. 2013).

Dry weather periods and rainfall intensity are significant in affecting Total Suspended Solids (TSS) and Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) concentrations (Cheong 1991; Chui 1997). However, TSS and COD contamination loads are very much dependent on total precipitation volume (Cheong 1991; Chui 1997). Heavy metals cause huge risks for reuse of stormwater at safe levels (Hatt et al. 2007). Chloride retention quantification and release is significant in influencing the water quality of stormwater management ponds (SWMPs) (Lam et al. 2020). Adsorbents at low cost can be considered as a viable option for treating urban stormwater (Deng 2020).

The regionalization of control factors of runoff, limits and treatment needs to be adapted for BMPs of stormwater (Bell et al. 2020). Green roof systems are one of the effective mechanisms for maintaining urban stormwater quality (Beecham & Razzaghmanesh 2015).

Fundamental principles need to be followed to develop enhancing techniques for urban stormwater quality (Davis et al. 2010). The development of innovative technologies or revival of prevailing technologies is vital for receiving, treatment and conservation of stormwater (Hatt et al. 2006). If these measures are not implemented, stormwater reuse becomes nominal and the setting of design standards is needed for efficient treatment of stormwater (Hatt et al. 2006).

However, there is a continuing knowledge gap on developing tools for realistic assessment of the impacts of water quality on the receiving waters which can further affect urban stormwater management. Also, trend analysis of parameters associated with water quality due to continued urbanization has not been carried in much detail. Furthermore, an integrated modelling approach has not been applied for urban water quality management due to continued urbanization, climate change, and land use changes.

There have been various emerging studies carried on sustainable drainage in urban areas (Zhou 2014).

SuDS/SUDS may be applied to improve planning and the decision-making process in urban environments (Fryd et al. 2010). There needs to be vision on aims, standards and practices and firmness on funds and adaptation aspects for SUDS realization (Ellis & Lundy 2016). Guidelines for design and targets for accomplishment are vital for the triumphant adaptation of LID practices for tropical urban areas to have uniformity in terms of design and monitoring of performance (Lim & Lu 2016). Also, the performance of the features of design during extreme environments needs to be revised with relevant design guidelines to adapt to the predicted climate change aspects (Lim & Lu 2016).

Key insights such as sustainability, resilience and consistency of urban drainage need to be described and calculated to evaluate robustness during large uncertainty for gray, green and hybrid methods to improve the capacity of systems (Casal-Campos et al. 2018). RTC and green technologies need to be integrated for UDS for management of urban water at optimum levels (Altobelli et al. 2020). Real-time controlled actuators are to be applied to find precipitation trends which may act as a smart in-line storage system (Kändler et al. 2020).

There is a framework for design of UDS to improve system efficiency of optimization to make practicable solutions (Kwon et al. 2020; Lin et al. 2020). An integrated framework as the decision support system may be adapted for urban stormwater at the community level (Hager et al. 2021). The framework such as the One-Water approach may be considered with most fitting strategies of LID, conventional infrastructure and stormwater reuse approaches with integration of stochastic aspects, impacts of climate change and fuzzy clustering analysis for sustainable and resilient stormwater management (Hager et al. 2021).

However, there is a gap in the practice of SUDS operation and maintenance, awareness of interface with other water bodies, and interpretation of organizational obstacles towards SUDS implementations. Thus, there is a need to study SUDS with regard to execution as an integrated modelling approach for urban stormwater management in much more detail and find mechanisms for overcoming barriers associated with them.

Table 2 summarizes the research on various management aspects/practices for integrated urban water including stormwater management.

Urban stormwater reuse is one of the most significant methods to alleviate scarcity of water resources. The need for stormwater reuse has been progressively vital with the increase in the predominant population which is causes more water stress. Stormwater reuse can also reduce the degradation of urban water as the decrease of volume of urban stormwater discharge follows. However, at present, an important impediment to extensive execution of stormwater reuse is the lack of techniques and approaches that can afford water for various requirements such as irrigation, gardening, commercial and industrial activities.

There have been numerous research studies outlining various stormwater reuse schemes for sustainable and/or resilient urban stormwater management including WSUD (Wada et al. 2002; Muirhead 2008; Gatt & Farrugia 2012; Lloyd et al. 2012; Kinkade 2013; Huang & Zhou 2014; Wu et al. 2014; Jonasson et al. 2016; Ahammed 2017; Jahanbakhsh 2017; Palazzo 2018; Charalambous et al. 2019; Deitch & Feirer 2019; Day & Sharma 2020; Olivieri et al. 2020; Shafiquzzaman et al. 2020).

Various measures and framework have been recommended by Ellis et al. (2008), Coutts et al. (2010), Saraswat et al. (2016), Webber et al. (2018), Mishra & Arya (2020), Mishra et al. (2020) for urban stormwater management, considering various scenarios with climate change effects.

The rational methods for stormwater advanced design methods have constraints to address complexities of urban catchments, variations in rainfall in terms of spatial and temporal characteristics and changes in precipitation processes (Coombes et al. 2015).

Appropriate spatial and temporal resolutions of models need to be chosen to characterize the cumulative outcomes of minute scale processes for bigger scale watersheds (Rodak et al. 2020).

Stormwater resilience concepts can be applied for sustainable stormwater management (Rodina 2019; Wang & Roon 2020).

Stormwater reuse has to be applied with emphasis on ‘water that is fit for purpose’ (Muirhead 2008; Gogate & Raval 2015; Goonetilleke et al. 2017; Maneewan & Roon 2017). Stormwater reuse requires tailor-made prevailing methods and utilization of approaches to fit the given conditions (Muirhead 2008; Gogate & Raval 2015; Goonetilleke et al. 2017; Maneewan & Roon 2017).

Multicriteria stormwater management policies and methods need to be adapted as solutions for flooding, erosion and water quality (McCuen & Moglen 1988). Levels of acceptance of pollution risk to set standards for treatment of stormwater need to be defined (Chouli 2006). Use of source control techniques and collaboration of various stakeholders can substantially decrease the expenditure for stormwater management (Chouli 2006).

Management of contaminated stormwater needs to have solutions that can maintain rigorous economic and environmental prerequisites (Pétavy et al. 2007).

Local variations in site attributes, ecological parameters, and soil conditions will affect the availability, category, and efficacy of LID choices for a particular site (Montazerolhodjah 2019).

LID techniques were found to be efficient in attenuating the adverse effects of hydrology due to any type of urbanization (Zimmer et al. 2007). LID techniques such as vegetative swales, rain barrels, infiltration trenches, and bioretention cells were found to give the best outcomes that could completely remove all contaminants (Trajkovic et al. 2020).

The choice of control technologies has to be affected by realistic data and the relevance of every control technology for catchment conditions to establish sustainable stormwater management (Pitt & Clark 2008).

There are various innovative methods for efficient stormwater management such as wet lands, reuse, collection, storage and distribution (Madison & Emond 2008). ‘Green Gully’, is a novel stormwater quality improvement mechanism that collects, purifies, and reuses stormwater throughout an automated system (Begum & Rasul 2009). Green infrastructure with rain gardens may be vital for urban environments to enhance resilience to climate change impacts such as recurrent stormwater; it also improves biodiversity and shields the landscape (Ishimatsu et al. 2017).

Porous and permeable pavements can be utilized for stormwater reuse as part of sustainable and resilient stormwater management (Beecham et al. 2010). Permeable pavements which contain chosen basecourse aggregates may generally develop a water quality that is sufficient for reuse for irrigation (Kazemi & Hill 2015). Permeable pavements and geothermal (geoexchange) systems use in combination for application in built-up areas checks and decreases the flooding and contamination of water and also reduces expenditure on energy with the use of a green source of energy that includes numerous environmental profits (Maharaj & Scholz 2010).

Stormwater reuse for potable purposes has to address the important impacts on society, the economy and finding sites for storage and treatment and the acceptance by the community for drinking stormwater after treatment (McArdle et al. 2011). The community participatory approach with the application of a Water Sensitive Design Framework is vital for a green-blue infrastructure at every stage of planning (Marino et al. 2018).

There are various WSUD criteria for sustainable and resilient stormwater management such as improving water quality, reducing peak flows and flood risk, and maximizing water reuse (Lariyah et al. 2011).

Stormwater reuse may give savings of potable water to the extent of 36% of the annual average household demand of potable water (Jenkins et al. 2012).

Decentralized facilities can offer more flexibility and high adaptation capacity for WSUD to adapt to climate change effects (Siekmann & Siekmann 2015).

Reverse osmosis (RO) or ultraviolet (UV) light processes need to be applied for potable reuse systems to remove N-nitrosomorpholine (NMOR) to comply with regulatory guidelines (Glover et al. 2019).

E²STORMED, a decision support tool with energetic and environmental criteria can be applied for the analysis of stormwater management impacts on urban environment fields such as water supply, treatment of wastewater, management of urban energy and urban planning (Morales Torres et al. 2016).

The advance of sustainable stormwater management systems is an enhancing established approach that unites various methods for BMPs to accumulate, store, treat,and transmit stormwater for harvest and reuse, thus increasing the numerous value of stormwater (Ding 2017). Risk management, financial appraisal and funding criteria for stormwater reuse need to be studied for comparison and prioritization of stormwater reuse (Furlong et al. 2017).

Integrated Spatial Decision Support Systems (SDSS) may be applied for runoff reduction (Rufino et al. 2018). A framework with approaches for strategic surface water management monitoring may be applied to augment decision support in cities (Webber et al. 2019).

Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) project optimization needs to be carried for reuse of stormwater after treatment considering the systems such as catch basins, dry well chambers, wet lands, cisterns, permeable surfaces, rain gardens and bioswales for sustainable and resilient stormwater management (Sadeghi et al. 2018).

WSUD and BMP are effective and efficient to remove fecal indicators and pathogens (Ahmed et al. 2019). Microbial risk will be the significant severe risk for stormwater reuse with waterborne pathogens risk. Various categories of WSUD and BMPs are able to decrease microbial pollution, but there remains a knowledge gap on the functioning of these treatment obstacles. Chemical risks may be the drivers of health aspect and relationships among multi-contaminant disclosures must be investigated (Ahmed et al. 2019).

Biofilters have the potential application to treat greywater and reuse (Hatt et al. 2007; Jung et al. 2019). RTC strategies with validation techniques for biofilters for efficient water quality to harvest and reuse through long term experimentation may be applied and it has been found that nutrient and sediment removal was high with RTC (Shen et al. 2019).

Different sorbents may be used at varied concentrations for efficient urban stormwater quality management (Valentukevičienė & Najafabadi 2020). Use of a hemp sorbent is more efficient for treating water and decreasing pH, turbidity, colour, and conductivity (Valentukevičienė & Najafabadi 2020).

Membranes are in wide use for integrated processes for high quality reclaimed water development to aid safe water reuse (Kog 2020; Zhang et al. 2020a). Bioswales and wet swales need to be considered as options for stormwater control (Ekka et al. 2020). Grass swales with check dams or infiltration swales are effective for runoff attenuation, and sediment and heavy metal removal (Ekka et al. 2020). Treated wastewater reuse from wetlands may be provided for irrigation purposes that can meet quality standards (Tuttolomondo et al. 2020; Zabłocka & Capodaglio 2020).

Removal of organic matter, heavy metals (especially copper), and control of bacteria growth must be the significant treatment methods for reduction of toxicity (Zhan et al. 2020).

Biochar is capable of the removal of the Escherichia coli (E. coli) and thus for urban stormwater quality management (Valenca et al. 2021).

Table 3 presents a list of various studies carried out on numerous stormwater reuse and treatment measures and/or practices for efficient integrated urban stormwater management.

However, there is a knowledge gap on detailed integrated study related to efficient stormwater reuse for potable purposes after treatment on a large scale, which is the significant requirement of urban areas. Also, the proportion of stormwater for reuse with and without treatment for specific purposes needs to be studied in much more detail. Figures 1 and 2 present and describe integrated urban stormwater management processes that need to be adapted with real-time governance. Various drivers such as climate change that impact the assessment, water quality, reuse and treatment are to be taken into account for efficient and optimal outcomes.

Urban hydrology characteristics are to be studied as an integrated study, considering the impacts of climate change, flow characteristics and water quality assessment (Figure 1). If water quality is fit for use, then water may be reused, otherwise water needs to be treated (Figure 2). If flows exceed peak flows in urban environments, then any suitable sustainable and/or resilient measures and/or practices such as LID, BMP, SUDS, WSUD and SCP are to be adapted. If flows do not exceed peak flows, then they may be discharged into water bodies in the vicinity after treatment (Figure 2).

Table 4 describes various key drivers of integrated urban stormwater management to develop to be efficient, sustainable and resilient.

There is a need for standardization of measures and practices for integrated stormwater management that should consist of innovative technologies, climate change impact assessment, and uncertainty analysis associated with prevailing aspects, as water resources are becoming scarce day by day due to poor management rather than availability. Also, it is necessary to treat and reuse available stormwater with sustainable and resilient management adaptations for various requirements such as irrigation and potable purposes on a large scale. For climate change impact studies on urban stormwater runoff and its efficient management, appropriate trend analysis needs to be performed with modifications specific to the region. Small magnitude and more frequent rainfall events need to be considered for the accurate and realistic assessment of governing flows in urban areas. Also, standardized performance assessment methods are very much needed for total urban stormwater management. Catchment-specific evaluations of flow changes due to urbanization are required. Real-time monitoring mechanisms such as IoT, AI and ML are to be applied for accurate, realistic and more efficient urban stormwater management.

Various researchers have worked on different aspects of stormwater management specific to the urban regions. However, still there is further scope to carry out research on innovative measures and practices for stormwater management as an integrated part of urban water management, which needs to be sustainable and resilient as water resources are under stress when fulfilling exponentially growing urban water requirements. The following section describes various research needs for integrated urban stormwater management.

Based on the literature review presented above, the following future research needs on urban storm water management may be explored.

Effect of climate change is to be assessed and adaptation actions need to be specific to the region. Uncertainty analysis related to heterogeneous climate change, extreme hydrologic events like floods, land use/cover interventions, treatment, reuse and economic factors is to be performed. Key drivers and their influencing mechanism for urban stormwater management needs to be considered. Assessment of models is to be performed with realistic, continuous and long-term data. Monitoring and maintenance of the systems are to be carried with real-time application technologies such as the IoT, AI and ML for real-time monitoring, and control of water quantity and water quality, and for accurate assessment of climate change impacts and land use/land cover interventions. The reuse of stormwater needs to be analyzed with the intent of potable use on a large scale to provide for the various needs of urban areas. The role of stormwater for reuse with or without treatment for specific purposes needs to be studied.

From the present study on review of urban stormwater management, the following points are the various conclusions

  • Characteristics of urban hydrology need to be studied in much detail with regard to spatial and temporal variations especially for better interpretation of precipitation.

  • Trends of precipitation due to land-use variability have to be evaluated with realistic and long-term data.

  • Determination of rainfall–runoff relationships is vital and needs to be established as specific to the region of study and considering all key drivers that can impact urban hydrology and further urban stormwater management.

  • There remain barriers to understanding peak flows due to lack of interpretation of urban hydrologic indicators and lack of accurate assessments of various impacts of urbanization.

  • The integrated urban hydrologic models need to be assessed accurately for associated uncertainty.

  • Various stormwater reuse methods as a resource for various purposes to urban areas need to be examined further, as an emerging research area, which can enhance sustainable and resilient measures for integrated urban stormwater management.

  • The impact of climate change on precipitation in urban environments is a significantly increasing issue that needs to be assessed specific to the region as a matter of urgent concern to better interpret urban rainfall varying patterns.

  • Development and application of accurate regional specific climate models that are realistic need to be undertaken for efficient integrated urban stormwater management systems.

  • Real-time monitoring of governing parameters of climate and the assessment of the impact of climate change on the regional scale need to be carried out.

  • Periodical supervision and monitoring of standards and guidelines for various measures and practices for stormwater management to verify their adequacy is essential. If found to be not meeting the present climatic, land-use and other impacting conditions, design standards and guidelines are to be amended accordingly.

  • Selection of appropriate sustainable and resilient measures and practices that are further cost effective is the key for successful implementation of stomwater management in urban environments.

  • Identification and implementation mechanisms of key drivers in a holistic manner plays a significant role for efficient urban stormwater management.

  • Application of the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) techniques are needed to develop urban stormwater management to be more sustainable, resilient and to the next level.

  • Real-time governance needs to be adapted for accurate and efficient urban stormwater management.

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The authors declare that they are not affiliated with or involved with any organization or entity with any financial interest or non-financial interest in the subject matter or materials discussed in this paper.

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