The role of water in society and the world economy is significant and it keeps growing. The days when we could assume adequate and continuous supply throughout our lives are gone. Sea Level Rise and climate change have introduced an entire new subspecialty within the worlds of design and construction. This month I had the opportunity to present a vision for Blue Tech and the the Blue Economy that I believe could be economically viable as well as rooted in the human values of fishable and swimmable water. Thanks Dirk van Peijpe, Gabrielle Muris, Gita Nandan and others for being part of my inspiration these past months. Looking forward!

1. Blue Tech &
Blue Commons
Carter Craft
Sr. Economic Officer
Consulate General of
The Netherlands in New York
22 May 2017
• Distilling a Strategy
• Reclaiming Public Use & Space
• Sharing Cultural Values

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3. Source: Topsector Water
Many specializationsWater as “Top Sector”
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4. The Dutch experience in Urban Water Management
1. Built Environment
I. Components
II. Planning, Design and Technical services
III. Public initiatives
2. Integration and Scale
I. Across disciplines
II. Over time: pilot, refinement, finance, replicate, sustain
3. Knowledge and Innovation
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1. Built Environment “Water Square,” Rotterdam
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6. The ‘Afsluitdijk’
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Blue Commons, Shared Space1. Built Environment
1932
• improved safety
• changed ecology
• spurring new opportunities
2014
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7. The new ‘Afsluitdijk’
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Blue Commons, Shared Space1. Built Environment
1932
• Improved Safety
• Restoring Ecology
• Spurring new
Opportunities
2014
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8. “Room for the River”
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• Public infrastructure program
initiated after 1993-1995 floods
• Vision of more than 100 projects
44 Projects implemented
• Established value of Living
with the Water
2. Integration & Scale Blue Commons, Shared Space
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9. Components of the Dutch Water Innovation Agenda
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Policy
Data
Social Benefits
Data
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10. Where does it apply? Think Spatially
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3. Knowledge & Innovation
Policy
Coastal & Maritime
Estuary & Delta
Water
Water and land
Blue Commons, Shared Vision
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11. How do we apply it?
in a Systems framework
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• Solve local problems
• Create public benefits
• Build new capacity
• Connect with new
audiences
• Create new markets
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12. Research, Design &
Manufacturing
a living place where students and companies collaborate
in an open environment & focus on new economic
activity & sustainable solutions for a resilient port & city
3. Knowledge & Innovation Blue Commons, Shared Vision
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13. Key Enablers & Founding Partners
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Policy
Estuary & Delta
Water
3. Knowledge & Innovation Blue Commons, Shared Vision
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14. Data Where & When Someone Needs It
• Real Time availability at the Swimming Beach
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Ecospot (Handheld) EcoWatch (Fixed Position)
3. Knowledge & Innovation Blue Commons, Sharing Information
Paterswoldemeer, Groningen
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15. Data
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Skygeo Disdrometrics
3. Knowledge & Innovation Blue Commons, Sharing Information
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16. Blue Commons, Shared Values3. Knowledge & Innovation
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Figure: Scores by town in milligrams
per 1,000 residents, per day
• Sewage research as
policy instrument
• Regional research
instead of city specific
• Role of hospitals?
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Pharma & Wastewater

17. Water Alliance
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• Collaboration
- Government
- Knowledge
- Businesses
• Water Technology
Innovation Chain
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18. Policy
• National Delta Plan (for
water safety)
• Learn to swim –
starting at age 3
• Droppie – education
for young people
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3. Knowledge & Innovation Blue Commons, Shared Values
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19. Policy Initiatives:
VP Delta Program
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Blue Commons3. Knowledge & Innovation
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• Start up support
• Validation
• Test Campuses
• Mentoring

20. Policy Initiatives:
Wetsus Lab
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• Applied research
• Member- and government support
• PhD student opportunities
• Generates new I.P.

21. Policy Tool: The “City Blueprint”
1. Performance
2. Trends and pressures
3. Governance Capacity
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3. Knowledge & Innovation Blue Commons, Shared Methods
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22. INCIDENT
SPREAD AFTER
60 MIN
INCIDENT
SPREAD AFTER
120 MIN
VALIDATION
RISK ASSESSMENT
SAFETY PLAN / MEASURES
EDUCATION
COMMUNICATION
AWARENESS
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Education

23. Improve ecological health and expand
the workforce in:
“marine coastal waters including coastal
estuaries) that are [can be] designated under
section 303(c) by a State for use for
swimming, bathing, surfing, or similar water
contact [and water dependent maritime
activities].
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NY “Blue Tech” strategy?
Based on Federal Water Pollution Control Act
a/k/a “the Clean Water Act” (33 U.S.C. 1251
et seq.)” of 1972

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Focus spatially? the confluence…
• Lower Manhattan is
one of the most
hydrodynamic and
ecologically
significant sites in the
entire Hudson-Raritan
River Estuary system.
• The salinity graph to
the left demonstrates
high salinity from the
East River + Long
Island Sound and low
salinity from the
Hudson River
converging at the
Battery.
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By geography?
along the Intertidal Zone
http://mdlmaster.learnnet.net/mod/book/view.php?id=258&chapterid=427
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Or on particular aspects of water health…
NY “Blue Tech” strategy?

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Or on particular waterways?
NY “Blue Tech” strategy?

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Thank you and keep in touch!
Upcoming events:
• IRRC August 2017
• Greenbuild 2017

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