Water management

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Long-term resilience of the Montpeyroux vineyard, facing climate change and new social expectations

Montpeyroux

Vine-growing has shaped the landscapes and rural economy in the South of France, but it is now threatened by water scarcity and severe heat waves due to climate change. Society also has new expectations, on pesticieds use reduction for instance. Montpeyroux wants to collectively tackle those issues.

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Water & Sanitation

Nairobi

The supply clean and affordable water to half of Nairobi's citizen remains a challenge in the face of water loses, intermittent supply and lack of quality. At the same time, the lack of adequate waste water treatment solutions carries manifold health and enviromental risk and consequences.

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How to reduce emissions from Waste Management & Other Possible Sectors in City?

Hyderabad

Cities are major culprits for contribution of various types of pollution. Today it’s important to prevent emissions from every possible sector, reduce waste, keeps goods and their ingredients in use and regenerates natural systems. We need to explore new ways of ensuring long-term prosperity.

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Water Matters

İstanbul Anatolian Side

Can we make efforts to rise the awareness of using the water resources in local and global scale

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How to improve and scale up recycling?

Vladivostok

The city is still dumping most of its waste in landfill, recycling is conducted by a few volunteers and represent an insignificant part compare with the amount of trash produced by the city.

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What are participatory solutions for climate adaptation between municipality, citizens and firms?

Nijmegen

The problem of citizen involvement seems paradoxical: Most damage occurs on the property of citizens, yet the citizens are not motivated to take precipitation adaptation measures. So how they can be engaged in local adaptation plans and participate in building a climate resilient city?

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How can technology support African farmers with smarter irrigation?

Mannheim

Water is a precious good in countries like Africa. Too much of it is wasted for agriculture, while it would be necessary as drinking water as well. With your help, we want to reduce the waste of water in these scenarios, with the help of technology.

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How to promote green solar roofs and facades? Good reasons to combine greening of building with PVs

Brussels

Roof gardens with photovoltaics help tackling air pollution, increasing biodiversity, and transforming buildings into self-sustaining living units. But there are few green solar roofs in Brussels. How can integrative planning and implementation be optimized? How can economic efficiency be increased?

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How to use ICT and social media to reduce the use of fossil fuels in Brussels?

Brussels

The Brussels Climathon let you team up with persons who want to take action on climate change. Fossil fuels is the single most important cause of climate change and air pollution. Digital technologies connect people, data & devices. Let's repurpose the use of data on our devices and clean Brussels

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How do we make water management more sustainable?

Cities face increasing water challenges due to climate change. Water utilities, such as drinking water infrastructure, wastewater and drainage can be damaged by storms, sea level rise, and unsustainable policies. Climate change also causes water shortage, affecting over 150 million people globally.

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The World Economic Forum Global Risk Report identified failure of climate change mitigation and adaptation and the water crises – droughts and floods – as the risks with the largest expected global impact over the coming decades (WEF, 2016). Flood events are occurring more frequently causing major damage in urban areas. The frequency and intensity of rain events will increase in the future. Besides flood risk, water shortage is an increasing concern. A recent global study shows that 1 in 4 cities already is water stressed, and climate change and urbanisation will increase the risk for water shortage in peri-urban river basins (McDonald et al., 2014). Water is essential for life. These challenges ask for a systemic approach and a transition in urban planning and urban water management.

Water plays an important role for the liveability of cities. We have to rethink the way we deal with water in our cities to create green, resilient and circular cities, so called Water Smart Cities, where collaboration between businesses, public authorities, researchers and citizens plays a unique part to ensure rapid transition. Many cities deal with increasing risks for water shortage, floods and heat waves

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