To browse Academia. The paper discusses the challenges cities face regarding urban water systems UWS due to demographic, economic, and environmental pressures. It highlights the importance of sustainable urban water services within the context of a growing population and climate change. Initiatives such as the International Water Association's Cities of the Future Programme and the EU-funded TRUST project aim to address these challenges by fostering collaboration among water professionals, urban planners, and social scientists to promote integrated and resilient urban water management solutions.
Additional input and advice received from all other LoGo Water project partners and the representatives of eight associated Local Governments see inside of back cover. The region of East Attica in Greece faces stress on its water supply, caused mainly by agricultural activities and tourism in the summer. To this end, a project was conceived, which accommodated stakeholder management practices to ensure public acceptance with the challenge to transform potential project risks to opportunities.
In particular, two major wastewater projects in the region were approved for co-financing by European Union E. C, Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive UWWTD and producing treated effluent wastewater that complies with the national standards for unlimited irrigation and urban reuse. Furthermore, another wastewater schem It introduces learning alliances as an attempt to build multi-stakeholder partnerships for demand-led research and the scaling-up of research impacts, and several related tools used to date to underpin an action research process: visioning and scenario-based planning with stakeholders, scoring ladders to monitor outcomes, process documentation to record change and matrix management to guide a diverse consortium.
Examples drawn from the SWITCH project illustrate successes and failures from which the project aims to learn and improve its own effectiveness.
Its objective is to developing scientific evidence and applying systems analysis to help identify water-related policies and management practices that work together consistently across scales and sectors to improve human well-being through water security.
