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Securing Water Supply and Sanitation Systems for Climate Change

The PREPARED project aims to address the challenges faced by water supply and sanitation systems in European cities due to climate change. With a focus on adaptation, the project seeks to develop advanced strategies and technologies to secure the preparedness of these systems. With a budget of 10.7 million EUR, the project will run for 4 years and involve 35 partners.

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Securing Water Supply and Sanitation Systems for Climate Change

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  1. PREPARED: ENABLING CHANGE Climate Change: Securing the preparedness of water supply and sanitation systems in 12 European cities Adriana Hulsmann KWR Watercycle Research Institute, the Netherlands Workshop on adaptation to climate change2nd of November 2011, Lefkosia Cyprus

  2. Project Information Prepared enabling change • Project Title: PREPARED - Enabling Change Adaptation of water supply and sanitation systems to cope with climate change • Budget: 10.7 mill EUR; • EU Support: 7 mill EUR (FP7) • Project duration: 4 years • Project start: 1 February 2010 • Partners: 35 Prepared enabling change 2

  3. The PREPARED project Gathers urban utilities in Europe and worldwide that (will) have an advanced strategy in meeting the upcoming challenges for water supply and sanitation brought about by climate change. Coordinating institute: KWR Watercycle Research Institute the Netherlands (Coordinator Adriana Hulsmann) Prepared enabling change

  4. Environment Programme - Call FP7-ENV-2009-1 ENV.2009.3.1.1.1 - Grant agreement 244232 PREPARED STRATEGY PREPARED addresses the adapation of the urban water cycle Demand driven project and goal oriented research and demonstration Strong utility/end-user driven definition of the overall research Research activity is developed with/for the utilities and demonstrated by the utilities Prepared enabling change

  5. City/Utility Challenges Prepared enabling change Surface water availability Groundwater availability Surface water quality impact Impacts on drinking water systems Impacts on sanitation systems Flooding Vulnerability and risks Prepared enabling change 5

  6. PREPARED City/Utility partners Prepared enabling change

  7. City/Utility Partners Prepared enabling change Aarhus Denmark Barcelona Spain Berlin Germany Eindhoven The Netherlands Genoa Italy Gliwice Poland Istanbul Turkey Lisbon Portugal Lyon France Melbourne Australia Oslo Norway Seattle USA Simferopol Crimea Wales United Kingdom

  8. Selection of the city utilities in PREPARED Geographic representation of Europe Coverage of challenges posed by climate change Willingness to test and demonstrate Availability of an investment programme Prepared enabling change

  9. Research/Technology Partners CETAQUA Spain CSRC Ukraine DHI Denmark IETU Poland INSA France IRIDE Italy KWR Netherlands KWB Germany LNEC Portugal SINTEF Norway TUBITAK Turkey UNBRAD UK UNINNS Austria (Melbourne) ) Prepared enabling change

  10. Research/Technology Partners Prepared enabling change Aquateam N IWA NL IWW D Krüger DK Monash AUS NIVUS D S::can AT Exeter UK

  11. Challenges: climate change Identified impacts of climate change either expected or already observed for water supply and sanitation systems Water supply: • Surface water availability • Change in run-off patterns and surface water quality • Groundwater availability (decreased natural recharge) • Saline intrusion in groundwater in coastal area • Changing demand patterns, land use (temperature, crop) • Flooding of well field • Bio-growth in distribution network • Treatment efficiency Sanitation: • Extreme precipitation (sustainable drainage, CSO, increased storage, WWTP) • Salt water intrusion Prepared enabling change

  12. Survey of identified Climate Change related issues to address by the Cities/utilities • 3 Alliances among the utilities : • Adaptation to Water resource scarcity/quality changes • Adaptation to extreme rainfall events • Integrated approaches to adaptation – Enabling change Prepared enabling change

  13. Technology heart of PREPARED WA3 Increase technological capacity and performance of traditional water supply and sanitation systems by better use of sensors and models. WA4 Increase capacity and performance by adapting existing systems through new integrated RTC and EWS/DSS. RT management WA5 Planning for more resilient systems, including hybrid systems: centralised and decentralised. Whole water cycle: drinking water, rainwater, storm water, waste water, grey water Prepared enabling change

  14. Enabling change • Cross cutting issues: • WA2 Risk assessment, risk management, Water Cycle Safety Plans, uncertainty. • WA6 socio-economic impacts, energy-reduction and awareness issues • Tools, frameworks, software and procedures for all stakeholders to enable and manage the changes. • Investment strategies, ‘no-regret’ scenarios. Prepared enabling change

  15. Climate Change Adaptation - strategy Performance declines over time due to external influences and asset deteoriation Knowledge about Climate Change System Performance Performance standard Incremental adaptation responses Large investment in infrastructure Time More rapid change in external drivers than anticipated will after a few years result in more rapid decline in performance Prepared enabling change Prepared enabling change 15

  16. What will the PREPARED project deliver? Prepared enabling change

  17. The PREPARED project deliverables (1) • Will produce a catalogue/portfolio of tested and demonstrated adaptive solutions for the water sector (on-line version for the future) • Will develop Water Cycle Safety Plans (generic risk management framework) Prepared enabling change

  18. The PREPARED project deliverables (2) • Will produce a toolbox for real time monitoring and modeling • Increase the technological capacity and performance of existing water systems • Help utilities to better plan for more resilient water systems • Enabling change: different and more flexible approaches to address climate change impacts (dealing with uncertainty) • PREPARED Cities network • PREPARED city branding tool Prepared enabling change

  19. Portfolio of tested adaptive solutions Prepared enabling change

  20. Portfolio “Securing and planning water supply” Prepared enabling change

  21. Portfolio “Promoting the use of alternative water resources” Prepared enabling change

  22. Portfolio “Adapting water supply systems” Prepared enabling change

  23. Portfolio “Integrating Climate Change Impacts in Sanitation systems investment planning” Prepared enabling change

  24. Portfolio “Preparing Sanitation systems operation” Prepared enabling change

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  26. Portfolio “Integrated approaches to enable climate change adaptation”” Prepared enabling change

  27. What are the links between PREPARED and EU policy? Prepared enabling change

  28. Policy related issues (1) • GWD implementation in Member States can cause barriers to MAR & dune infiltration for underground storage and water quality improvement. • WFD pricing policy for water in some Member States will cause barrier to sustainable water use (selling price lower than production cost). • DWD inclusion of RA/RM concept would boost WCSP approach. ) Prepared enabling change

  29. Policy related issues (2) Prepared enabling change 4. UWWTD and BWD drivers behind investments urban water cycle Stricter national standards will increase investment needs (CSO). BWD allows the use of EWS for overflows in receiving waters. 6. Infiltration of residual waste from desalination in the ground.

  30. www.prepared-fp7.eu Prepared enabling change

  31. THANK YOU Prepared enabling change

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