Water is one of the vital resources of human life. With many changes in climate and
population growth, water resources have become inadequate compared to demand.
Water management has become a major challenge for both government and the
private sector to provide quantities of water with high quality at reasonable cost and
rational rate of energy consumption.
Water is a critical component of the urban system, that affects environmental and
human health, and nurtures local economic development.
Sustainable development revolves around how to harmonize the indicators of high
water demand and good water management to ensure integrated and sustainable
development. Through the use of ICT systems, cities seek to achieve a number of
additional benefits in the management of the water sector, such as: Accuracy and
speed in identifying problems and priorities related to the sector, ensuring that
decisions and solutions are taken quickly and accurately, thus achieving continuity and
sustainability in water management.
The research aims to achieve the principles of smart cities by measuring some
quantitative indicators on the cities of Dakahlia governorate to classify them into
three levels that reflect the application of ICT in water resource management and its
impact on urban development using various technological capabilities, and then
propose some smart water management technologies to achieve the principles of
smart cities.