NEW APPROACHES OF URBAN STORMWATER MANAGEMENT

Abstract

The paper presents new approaches to stormwater management in urban areas that are emerging as a solution to the problems of floods and water pollution in urban areas. Urban rain (pluvial) floods occur mostly due to undercapacity, incompleteness or dysfunction of the stormwater drainage system, and due to climate change and urbanization. In order to create a sustainable and pleasant living environment where water is a resource and not a cause of problems (due to floods and water pollution), new approaches to stormwater management in urban areas are being introduced. The application of new approaches is not simple because it depends on a number of specific circumstances of the considered area (current state of stormwater drainage system; new changes related to (un) planned construction and land use change; climate change - heavy rainfall and different types of climate and others). Possibilities of applying new approaches to rainwater management for potential locations and specific circumstances of BiH (for example, Sarajevo Canton) were explored.