Stormwater source control and public acceptance

摘要

In the late 1980s, source control was practically unheard of in the Netherlands. Urban water management was perceived as synonymous with sewer system management. Hardly any attention was paid to surface waters in the city, and just about the only residents who made use of it were grandmothers taking their grandchildren to feed the ducks. Measures taken with regard to sewer systems were in a maintenance context or consisted of end-of-pipe control. However, all this changed in the early 1990s. Source control was put on the agenda by, among others, the Socoma working group of the Joint Committee of Urban Storm Drainage.