Concepts for urban stormwater management and sewage systems
Using Berlin as an example, the project KURAS aims at demonstrating how the future waste water disposal, water quality, urban climate and quality of life in the city …
Continue reading »Sustainability Index For Progress In Municipal Water And Wastewater Services
A key aspect of the index is the ambition to capture long term sustainability by striking a balance between objective measurable data and …
Continue reading »Melbourne’s City Blueprint
The city scores highly in areas such as water efficiency, waste water efficiency, e.g., climate adaptation. Nearly 30% of …
Continue reading »NextGen: Towards the next generation of water systems and services for the circular economy
Ho Chi Minh’s City Blueprint
Originally, the City Blueprint was a set of 24 dedicated indicators. …
Continue reading »Amsterdam’s City Blueprint
Waternet is responsible for surface water (rivers, canals, ditches and lakes), groundwater, stormwater, drinking water supply and waste water treatment. The city’s unique water cycle …
Continue reading »Resilience Assessment
In the water wise cities project we propose a methodological framework that: (i) Helps the water industry think in a structured way about resilience using a set of currently applied and more sophisticated options. (ii). Proposes a specific set of quantifiable system-level metrics to assess the long term …
Continue reading »Seoul’s City Blueprint
Kortrijk’s City Blueprint
Amsterdam’s Governance Capacity
Melbourne’s Governance Capacity
Melbourne’s Governance Capacity has been analysed for five water challenges: water scarcity, flood risk, wastewater treatment, solid waste treatment, and urban heat islands. This has been done according to the Governance Capacity tool which consists of twenty-seven indicators. The analysis has been done by literature research, in-depth …
Continue reading »Quito’s Governance Capacity
Cape Town’s Governance Capacity
Bath’s City Blueprint
Bath’s water cycle management was – as part of the David Parkin and Global Chair Visiting Professorship and supported by Watershare partner WIRC – assessed according to the City Blueprint methodology.
The City of Bath is a historical city dating back to the Roman age and …
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The City …
Continue reading »Feasibility of applying Water Sensitive Design Initiatives in the Waterberg catchment
Water Sensitive Design (WSD) is a planning and engineering design approach that looks at an integrated approach to water management with minimal impact to the environment. The approach is being investigated …
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