Water Europe Vision & SIRA
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The value of Water. Towards a future-proof model for a European Water-Smart Society.
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Water Europe Vision & SIRA
- 1. Click to edit Master title style Click to edit Master subtitle style Water Europe Vision & SIRA
- 2. Click to edit Master title style Click to edit Master subtitle style Towards a future-proof model for a European Water-Smart Society
- 3. A new Water Europe Vision Update of the previous 6 year old vision 1. New societal developments e.g. towards circular economy, the emerging IoT 2. New insights in technological capabilities and prospects e.g. (waste) water treatment, digital solutions for water management 3. Increased awareness and urgency to deal with the impact of human behavior on our environment and the effect of climate change events on our water system
- 4. Challenges • world-wide growth in water use with 55% by 2050 • Diffuse pollution: affects 90% of river basin districts, 50% of surface water bodies and 33% of groundwater bodies across the EU • Europe water demand: stabilise towards 2050 at around 1000 km3/yr • Water scarcity is already a serious problem in 11% of EU, grow to 30% in 2030 • Increasing effects of climate change such as floods and droughts “Access to ..[water] .. is a basic human right and water is crucial for human health and well-being, as well as economic performance and business growth. It is also a finite and shared resource, therefore action by an individual, a business or a community can have a substantial impact on access to it by others” Deloitte Water Tight 2015 Need for: • Novel solutions and routes towards important reduction of fresh-water extraction from our natural eco-system, while making available sufficient water sources for the 77.9 Trillion Euro global economy • Innovations to secure protection of our natural environment, resilience and reduced vulnerability against external events (climate, terrorism) RECOGNISE THE TRUE VALUE OF WATER: Without water everything else in the 77.9 Trillion Euro global economy would fail!
- 5. Water Europe Innovation Concepts 1000 Petabytes/yr globally Un- exploited resources (B€) 2 3 1 4
- 6. A future proof model for water-smart societies Developing a water- smart economy Multiple Waters, for multiple purposes and users Rational use of multiple waters & boost markets Increase circularity in the water economy Enabling multi-loop and resilient water systems Involve all relevant stakeholders in joint water governance “Digital water” and Water Technologies
- 7. Key Impact Parameters 1. Reducing the impact of Europe’s society on our natural water resources by 50% (>650km3/yr) – Increasing re-use from the current 5% to up to 30%, – Reduce water “loss” from average 20% to lower levels. – much higher levels of alternative water sources (brackish, saline water and brine and rain water) – up to 15% of water demand – Reducing the amount of water used for energy production with 10 - 20% (currently 25% of the overall water use) KIP 1: Reduce impact of Europe’s water Footprint
- 8. Key Impact Parameters 2. Recognise the true value of water and boost the European water market as well as global competitiveness of the European water industries KIP 2: True value of water and boost water market – new advanced water technologies (reducing water pollution and reuse for various purposes), management models, infrastructures and systems to exploit the value of multiple alternative water sources in a in the 650 Billion Euro global water- management market – 5-10 times increase in the valorisation of water by extracting and exploiting heat, energy, nutrients, minerals, (critical) metals, chemicals for multiple applications in a multi- Billion global market
- 9. Key Impact Parameters 3. Securing long term resilience, stability and sustainability of the water society KIP 3: Resilience, stability and sustainability Redesigned Hybrid Grey and Green Water Infrastructure for resilience Joint governance for resilience stability and sustainability Forecasting & Big Data Decision Support – Reduce impact and damage due to climate change events with 50% – Source protection, minimising residual contamination – New economic, investment and governance models and harvesting the value in water, as new sources for economic sustainability
- 10. Water Europe Model for a Water-smart society 1. A paradigm shift in the way our future water society will be organised and managed 2. Developing solutions that contribute to tackling global challenges and Sustainable Development Goals. 3. Reconfirming and strengthening Europe’s position in global water market 4. Igniting new markets for finite resources and growing jobs in a global circular economy
- 11. Water Europe SIRA Water Europe model for Smart Water Society Water Europe
- 12. Click to edit Master title style Click to edit Master subtitle style Research & Innovation (TRL 6-7) Technologi es to harvest, measure & (pre-) treat multiple waters Innovation (TRL 6-8) Combine technologies and cascading strategies Rationalise/Reduce Re-use Recycle Research & Innovation (TRL 5-8) Redesign multi-loop resilient and smart grey and green infra Non-technical New economic models, strategies and business models for multiple waters and exploiting the value in water (energy and by-products) Innovation (TRL 6-8) Apply new WWT technologies and business models Valorise by-products in used water Valorise energy in used water Non-technical Long-term financial and investment models for economically sustainable asset-management Non-technical New multi-stakeholder governance models Research (TRL 3-5) New Digital and water treatment technologies Research & Innovation (TRL 4-7) New (big data based) Governance Support Systems Innovation (TRL 7-9) First time experimental combination of new, existing technologies, new economic, business and governance models as well as new investments in large scale real-life Living Labs Research & Innovation (TRL 5-7) New Digital and water treatment technologies Smart(peri-)UrbanLivingLab-Pilots FutureIndustriesLivingLab-Pilots RuralLivingLab-Pilots KC1: The Value of Water KC3: Hybrid Grey and Green Infra KC2: Technologies KC4: Governance KC5: Living Labs KC6: Horizontal Support eco-innovative companies Education, awareness, capacity building, tools International cooperation Water advocacy, planning and management Water Footprint Assessment
- 13. Water Europe Vision endorsements
- 14. Click to edit Master title style Click to edit Master subtitle style “Water becomes a new oil as the World runs dry”
- 15. Click to edit Master title style Click to edit Master subtitle style Thank You watereurope@watereurope.eu www.watereurope.eu +32(0)27068291 H2OEU Water Europe
Editor's Notes
- Water Europe has revamped its Vision for a water-smart society in 2030, to update its previous 6 year old vision, taking into account new societal developments (e.g. towards the circular economy and the emerging internet of things), new insights in technological possibilities e.g. for waster water treatment, but also increased awareness about the impact of human behavior on our environment and the impact of climate change
- There is a need to emphasis and recognize the true value and importance of water for our whole society, especially with emerging challenges potentially leading to increased water scarcity, pollution of our living environment and fresh water sources and increased cost for our societies to deal with the effects of floods and droughts. We need to leverage on new technological capabilities and societal awareness that there is a need to change the way we manage our scarce global resources, to develop new solutions to reduce the impact on our fresh-water sources while making sufficient water available for our society and global economy. We also need to guarantee long term resilience and sustainability of our water system: reason for Water Europe to redevelop its vision based on a number of innovation concepts
- [FIRST SHOW THE YELLOW, GREEN AND BLUE BARS WITH CONTENT] As said: Water is key to all our societal functions, from industry (so all our products we use daily), agriculture (so all our food and increasingly fuels and materials), our daily life at home and for all services we enjoy, including the function that nature has for our wellbeing (eco-services). This is the true value of water. [THEN ADD THE ARROWS AND TEXTS RE-USE, RECYCLE, CASCADING] In order to make sure good quality water remains available for all these societal functions, and reduce our pressure on fresh water sources Europe (and the world) have multiple opportunities. First we need to drastically increase water re-use and recycling. [ADD THE MULTIPLE WATER BARS AND ARROWS] Secondly we can significantly increase the use of alternative water sources such as brackish, saline, brines and rain-water. Leading to one of the key Innovation Concepts underlying the Water Europe water vision: “the Multiple waters concept”. We also have new opportunities to better manage and govern our water system and allocation, by implementing the second Innovation Concept of the Water Europe vision, called “Digital Water”. [NOW ADD THE BLUE SQUARE OF DIGITAL WATER] In line with the Internet of Things, or Internet of Everything concept also the water sector may be expected to be digitalised to a much higher extent, by deploying large number of sensors throughout the water network, up to the individual user. [NOW ADD THE 1000 petabytes of data] Large amounts of data about how, when and what quality of water may come available for utilities and water governing bodies, as well as individual users, to be used to optimise the allocation of “multiple waters, for multiple purposes and users”. [NOW ADD THE VALUE IN WATER ARROWS] Third: The Value of Water can be further boosted by capturing and exploiting the Value IN water, e.g. nutrients, minerals, metals and energy in waste water, which currently remains unexploited. Clearly to capture these opportunities innovations will be needed in the water market. [CLICK] And last but not least, the fourth innovation concept on which the Water Europe vision has been built, is an enabling underpinning hybrid grey and green water infrastructure. Water Europe has hence developed a 4-layer model for a future-proof water-smart society ,which sets the basis for our upcoming SIRA and outlines the research, development and moreover INNOVATIONS needed to realise the required Impacts.
- The core of our model is “The Value of Water” [RW: ONLY THE VALUE OF WATER CIRCLE VISIBLE]. This is about all required technological but also non-technological innovations required to realise our Vision. It is about technologies as well as economic and business models to make multiple water available for multiple purposes and users. It is about developing and implementing new multiloop infrastructures and technologies as well as new digital tools and incentive systems for users to increase rational use of the multiple water streams. It is about stimulating entrepreneurs’ to capture and exploit the Value IN water and it is about increasing the circularity of the water economy. In order to realise this we need research and development of a whole range of new technologies [RW: NOW SHOW TECHNOLOGIES], to enable the water-smart economy, to develop new infrastructures and new digitally supported DSS. [RW: NOW SHOW INFRASTRUCTURES]. In order to make this circular multiple water concept possible, we need to completely redesign our water infrastructure. Moreover, this water infrastructures needs to be resilient against climate change events and financially geared for the future. It needs novel approaches to integrate green infrastructures to leverage on functions of nature for storage, filtering and delivery of alternative water sources. [RW: NOW ADD GOVERNANCE]. Last but not least, we future water-smart society will see an increased involvement of all relevant stakeholders in the governance of our water system, in order to make sure all users will have access to sufficient water of good quality, resilience against climate change events is managed adequately and the water infrastructure remains financially viable towards the future.
- Implementing this model is foreseen to have 3 major impacts: 1) a significant 50% reduction of pressure on our fresh water sources due to a) increased water recycling up to 30%, b) reduced water loss in the revamped infrastructure, c) much higher levels of alternative water sources up to 10% and d) reduced amount of water used for energy production.
- 2) Boost the European water market: bold decisions need to be taken for important investments in redesigning and rebuilding the water infrastructure, leading to an economic boost for suppliers. Accelerated research and development of water technologies and digital solutions for the water sector, leading to increased competitiveness of European water technology developers. Moreover, the comprehensive European concept and model with related innovations will open-up opportunities for European industries and service providers, including research institutes and consultancies to exploit this knowledge in the global 650 BEUR water-management market. Extraction and exploitation of the value in water is still in its very early, stages. New cheaper technologies and solutions will open-up new markets expected to increase 5 – 10 times the current value if not more.
- 3. Third and last Impact of the Water Europe Vision will be a significantly increased resilience, stability and sustainability of Europe’s water system, by 1) a reduced impact and damage from Climate events with 50%, 2) reduced pollution by source protection and 3) new economic, investment and multistakeholder governance models, that leverage and synergize new sources of finance and funding, into new long term economic models, based on cost-recovery and the polluter pays principle.