PART I: OUR UNCERTAIN WATER FUTURE, OUR PRECARIOUS WATER PAST 1. Introduction – What Would A Contents: PART I: OUR UNCERTAIN WATER FUTURE, OUR PRECARIOUS WATER PAST 1. Introduction: What Would a Water Sustainable City Look Like? 2. Lessons for an Urban Ecology of Water: Historical Views, Environmental Experiences 3. Roles for Civil Engineering, Law and Institutions in Urban Water Management 4. Divergent Approaches: A Typology of Traditional and Contemporary Alternatives As Seen In Los Angeles and Melbourne; PART II: TRADITIONAL AND CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES TO WATER MANAGEMENT AND POLICY INNOVATION 5. The Water-Energy Footprint of Large Cities: Productivity and Transitional Development 6. How Cities Value Water and Why It Matters: Economic and Non-Economic Approaches; PART III: THE PATH FORWARD: TECHNOLOGY, INFRASTRUCTURE, INSTITUTIONS, PRACTICES 7. Opportunities to Satisfy Urban Water Needs While Addressing the Urban Stream Syndrome 8. Low Impact Development: Indoor and Outdoor Innovations 9. New Forms of Management and Governance for Urban Water Sustainability 10. Conclusions: Some Future Research Needs