The document describes a Resilience.IO simulation model to evaluate water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) scenarios in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA) of Ghana. It includes a synthetic population model to simulate water and sanitation demands. Technology datasets are used to model infrastructure options. Three use cases are presented: assessing ongoing projects, increasing water access, and analyzing toilet availability. Baseline results show ongoing projects will not meet 2025 goals, while city-wide systems achieving 100% access and treatment would require over $2 billion of investment from 2015-2025.
Stephen Passmore, Head of Platform Delivery, The Ecological Sequestration Trust presents the work on resilience.io in GAMA, Accra, Ghana over the previous 18 months to a World Cafe session at the Cities Alliance, Africa Strategy Workshop, Sept 2016
Stephen Passmore and Peter Head of The Ecological Sequestration Trust are joined by Bob Bishop of the International Centre for Earth Simulation to discuss there pioneering project creating Global to Local Scale, Human, Economic, Ecological, Systems Models
Incentive based collection of e-waste – Results from pilot implementation in ...Oeko-Institut
The document summarizes the results of a pilot program in Ghana that provided incentives for collectors to bring e-waste like cables to a collection center for recycling instead of burning them. Over 10 months, the program collected 27.3 tons of cables through 1,389 transactions. This established an alternative to burning e-waste and reduced emissions while benefiting collectors, recyclers, and the environment. The results demonstrate that incentive-based collection can successfully link informal collectors to formal recycling of e-waste.
The document discusses e-waste recycling in China. It notes that the town of Guiyu in Guangdong Province is the epicenter of e-waste recycling in China. However, current recycling practices are polluting the environment. The document proposes setting up a formal e-waste recycling plant through a social enterprise called EVOC to address this issue in a sustainable and profitable way. The plant would collect, process, and dispose of e-waste in an environmentally-friendly manner while also benefiting local communities.
During this meeting, the technical team from Imperial College London (ICL) and the Institute for Integrated Economics Research (IIER) showed the preliminary results from the resilience.io model prototype. They showed the water demand per district and how the technology infrastructure modelling can be used to meet water demands and sanitation treatment needs, as well as use case indicators and model functionality.
Principal Investigator Catherine Mulligan and co-investigators John Nelson and Ruth Rettie are leading a project funded by the RCUK Sustainable Society Network+ to identify grand challenges for digital technology research related to creating a sustainable society. The network will provide funding for 10 pilot studies up to £50,000 each, research probes, secondments between industry and academia. Two pilot studies are described, one involving analyzing social media during flood events for flood risk management, and another deploying digital sharing tools across 800 households to inspire sustainable practices. A challenge fellowship will explore using interactive feedback to change energy consumption behaviors. The network also supports secondments in India.
Stephen Passmore, Head of Platform Delivery, The Ecological Sequestration Trust presents the work on resilience.io in GAMA, Accra, Ghana over the previous 18 months to a World Cafe session at the Cities Alliance, Africa Strategy Workshop, Sept 2016
Stephen Passmore and Peter Head of The Ecological Sequestration Trust are joined by Bob Bishop of the International Centre for Earth Simulation to discuss there pioneering project creating Global to Local Scale, Human, Economic, Ecological, Systems Models
Incentive based collection of e-waste – Results from pilot implementation in ...Oeko-Institut
The document summarizes the results of a pilot program in Ghana that provided incentives for collectors to bring e-waste like cables to a collection center for recycling instead of burning them. Over 10 months, the program collected 27.3 tons of cables through 1,389 transactions. This established an alternative to burning e-waste and reduced emissions while benefiting collectors, recyclers, and the environment. The results demonstrate that incentive-based collection can successfully link informal collectors to formal recycling of e-waste.
The document discusses e-waste recycling in China. It notes that the town of Guiyu in Guangdong Province is the epicenter of e-waste recycling in China. However, current recycling practices are polluting the environment. The document proposes setting up a formal e-waste recycling plant through a social enterprise called EVOC to address this issue in a sustainable and profitable way. The plant would collect, process, and dispose of e-waste in an environmentally-friendly manner while also benefiting local communities.
During this meeting, the technical team from Imperial College London (ICL) and the Institute for Integrated Economics Research (IIER) showed the preliminary results from the resilience.io model prototype. They showed the water demand per district and how the technology infrastructure modelling can be used to meet water demands and sanitation treatment needs, as well as use case indicators and model functionality.
Principal Investigator Catherine Mulligan and co-investigators John Nelson and Ruth Rettie are leading a project funded by the RCUK Sustainable Society Network+ to identify grand challenges for digital technology research related to creating a sustainable society. The network will provide funding for 10 pilot studies up to £50,000 each, research probes, secondments between industry and academia. Two pilot studies are described, one involving analyzing social media during flood events for flood risk management, and another deploying digital sharing tools across 800 households to inspire sustainable practices. A challenge fellowship will explore using interactive feedback to change energy consumption behaviors. The network also supports secondments in India.
Energy research and innovation for transformation of Ireland’s electricity se...SustainableEnergyAut
The document discusses energy research and innovation opportunities in Ireland to support the transformation of the electricity sector. It provides an overview of Ireland's energy targets, research context, and supports available through the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI). Key areas of focus for research include renewable energy integration, electricity market design, and enabling 70% of electricity to come from renewables by 2030. The SEAI supports energy research through its RD&D program funding innovative projects. International collaboration opportunities also exist through programs like Horizon 2020 and the International Energy Agency.
This document discusses the development of an industrial symbiosis toolbox to promote public-private partnerships for reducing energy costs. The toolbox combines best practices, analytics, engineering knowledge and optimization to facilitate symbiosis networks between various industries, agricultural areas, ports and more. Specific examples are provided of potential symbiosis projects within industrial ports that could transform their energy systems to be more biobased and sustainable through synergistic connections between functional units. The toolbox aims to scale up these approaches to generate economic, social and environmental benefits on a national level.
Electric vehicle grid integration policies to benefit consumersLeonardo ENERGY
Electric vehicles can unlock extensive value for consumers, the grid and the environment — if we integrate them strategically into the power system. This webinar explores three key strategies for EV grid integration: smart pricing, smart technology and smart planning. Presenters: Dr. Julia Hildermeier and Christos Kolokathis, RAP
Electric Vehicles in San Antonio by Harley Hubbard Forth
The City of San Antonio has adopted a Climate Action and Adaptation Plan with goals of carbon neutrality by 2050 including a 41% reduction in emissions by 2030. The plan outlines strategies for the city to convert its vehicle fleet to more efficient electric vehicles by 2025 and encourage residents to transition to electric vehicles. The city developed a Vehicle Environmental Acquisition Policy in 2010, which it is updating to better align with climate goals and allow departments to purchase gas vehicles only when electric models cannot meet job needs. The city is conducting public outreach on electric vehicles and researching fleet charging needs and citywide electric vehicle infrastructure requirements to support adoption.
ISCN 2019 - Assessing SDGs Implementation Within UniversitiesISCN_Secretariat
The document outlines plans for NTU's EcoCampus Living Laboratory initiative. The goals are to reduce campus energy, water and waste intensity by 35% by 2020 using 2011 as a baseline, through research collaboration between academia and industry. Key areas of research include green building systems, renewable energy integration, sustainable mobility, and analyzing user behavior for energy conservation. The campus has already implemented various renewable energy and efficiency projects. If successful, EcoCampus aims to be a model for the most sustainable, smart and technologically advanced campus worldwide.
To resolve upcoming shortages in clean drinking water, Waternomics will explore technologies and methodologies needed to successfully reduce water consumption from households, companies and municipalities. Waternomics is a three year, EU-funded project that started in February 2014 and will evaluate its results in three real life experiments in Italy, Greece and Poland.
UNU & StEP Initiative: working towards sustainable solutions for e-waste prob...Metamorphosis
The document discusses the work of UNU & the StEP Initiative in addressing the global e-waste problem. UNU works across disciplines on sustainability issues and hosts the StEP Initiative secretariat. StEP aims to facilitate sustainable e-waste management worldwide through research, sharing best practices, and bringing together various stakeholders. It has over 50 members and multiple task forces working on topics like take-back systems, policies, and recycling.
Waternomics - ICT for Water Resource ManagementWaternomics
Objective: WATERNOMICS will provide personalised and actionable information on water consumption and water availability to individual households, companies and cities in an intuitive & effective manner at relevant time-scales for decision m
DPER’s perspective on the transformation of the electricity sector SustainableEnergyAut
Ken Cleary, Climate Change Unit, DPER presents on DPER’s perspective on the transformation of the electricity sector. (Presentation delivered at the inaugural National Energy Research and Policy Conference in Dublin, Nov 2019)
Power to the people: shifting control over electricity to citizens and consumersLeonardo ENERGY
Efficient electricity prices are only the first step to unleashing the potential for consumers to help drive the energy transition. In this webinar, David Robinson from the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies will present on how consumers can help decarbonize the electricity system and how to engage the demand side through a combination of price and non-price incentives.
Public awareness and feedback – Insights from the SmartH2O project SmartH2O
The document discusses insights from the SmartH2O project on raising public awareness and providing feedback to induce behavior change related to water consumption. It outlines two main challenges of how to present consumption information to users and motivate them to change behavior. It then describes the SmartH2O approach which includes a consumer portal with gamification elements, consumption feedback, tips, goals and rewards to engage users. Initial results from a validation study in Spain show positive user acceptance of the technology and motivation from gamification. Analysis of user activity levels and consumption data also provide early signs that the approach may help influence behaviors.
ICT4S - Smart city planning and environmental aspects?: lessons from six citiesSURFsara
The document discusses lessons learned from examining smart sustainable city initiatives in six cities. It contains three main lessons: 1) initiatives must evaluate their net environmental effects, 2) cities must act on the findings of net effects evaluations, and 3) long-term research is needed on potential urban form and economic changes. The document also describes three categories of implementation: sharing things and spaces, smart energy, and supporting lifestyle choices. Finally, it discusses strategies for development and sharing, and calls for further discussion on changing production/consumption and enabling societal change.
The clean tech ecosystem in Barcelona is small, but solid. New models of clean tech use IT as a key elements (cleanweb). Here some insights about its players, what works, and what needs to be improved.
John Young, Head of Policy at SSE Airtricity, delivers a presentation on Offshore Wind Enablers and lessons from the GB experience. (Presentation delivered at the inaugural National Energy Research and Policy Conference in Dublin, Nov 2019)
Solar energy ongoing project by Christian BardajíASCAME
The energy model on which the majority of cities in developed countries are based upon is characterized by centralization and unsustainability. Barcelona, being a Mediterranean city, faces the challenge to increase its solar energy supply, moving towards a more sustainable energy model, while strengthening the network's business sector.
ASCAME is committed to this initiative, in the framework of the European project FOSTEr in MED gathering together in the auditorium of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Navigation of Barcelona, several experts in the field of renewable energy, as well as companies, public authorities, universities and organizations that will analyse the state of sector, its’ trends and the business development scenario emerged.
Cleanweb is about the development of ICT-based business solutions that make an efficient use of resources (i.e. energy, water). Many opportunities exists for entrepreneurs, investors, and society in general.
Dr Xiaonan Wang presents the How to build resilience.io for sustainable urban energy and water systems, Energy seminar for The Energy Futures Lab at Imperial College, London on 2nd December 2016
The team will cover the Current Status of the project (Rembrandt Koppelaar), Water Demands (Xiaonan Wang, Koen H. van Dam), Infrastructure construction (Rembrandt Koppelaar) and Toilet usage (Xiaonan Wang, Koen H. van Dam)
Energy research and innovation for transformation of Ireland’s electricity se...SustainableEnergyAut
The document discusses energy research and innovation opportunities in Ireland to support the transformation of the electricity sector. It provides an overview of Ireland's energy targets, research context, and supports available through the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI). Key areas of focus for research include renewable energy integration, electricity market design, and enabling 70% of electricity to come from renewables by 2030. The SEAI supports energy research through its RD&D program funding innovative projects. International collaboration opportunities also exist through programs like Horizon 2020 and the International Energy Agency.
This document discusses the development of an industrial symbiosis toolbox to promote public-private partnerships for reducing energy costs. The toolbox combines best practices, analytics, engineering knowledge and optimization to facilitate symbiosis networks between various industries, agricultural areas, ports and more. Specific examples are provided of potential symbiosis projects within industrial ports that could transform their energy systems to be more biobased and sustainable through synergistic connections between functional units. The toolbox aims to scale up these approaches to generate economic, social and environmental benefits on a national level.
Electric vehicle grid integration policies to benefit consumersLeonardo ENERGY
Electric vehicles can unlock extensive value for consumers, the grid and the environment — if we integrate them strategically into the power system. This webinar explores three key strategies for EV grid integration: smart pricing, smart technology and smart planning. Presenters: Dr. Julia Hildermeier and Christos Kolokathis, RAP
Electric Vehicles in San Antonio by Harley Hubbard Forth
The City of San Antonio has adopted a Climate Action and Adaptation Plan with goals of carbon neutrality by 2050 including a 41% reduction in emissions by 2030. The plan outlines strategies for the city to convert its vehicle fleet to more efficient electric vehicles by 2025 and encourage residents to transition to electric vehicles. The city developed a Vehicle Environmental Acquisition Policy in 2010, which it is updating to better align with climate goals and allow departments to purchase gas vehicles only when electric models cannot meet job needs. The city is conducting public outreach on electric vehicles and researching fleet charging needs and citywide electric vehicle infrastructure requirements to support adoption.
ISCN 2019 - Assessing SDGs Implementation Within UniversitiesISCN_Secretariat
The document outlines plans for NTU's EcoCampus Living Laboratory initiative. The goals are to reduce campus energy, water and waste intensity by 35% by 2020 using 2011 as a baseline, through research collaboration between academia and industry. Key areas of research include green building systems, renewable energy integration, sustainable mobility, and analyzing user behavior for energy conservation. The campus has already implemented various renewable energy and efficiency projects. If successful, EcoCampus aims to be a model for the most sustainable, smart and technologically advanced campus worldwide.
To resolve upcoming shortages in clean drinking water, Waternomics will explore technologies and methodologies needed to successfully reduce water consumption from households, companies and municipalities. Waternomics is a three year, EU-funded project that started in February 2014 and will evaluate its results in three real life experiments in Italy, Greece and Poland.
UNU & StEP Initiative: working towards sustainable solutions for e-waste prob...Metamorphosis
The document discusses the work of UNU & the StEP Initiative in addressing the global e-waste problem. UNU works across disciplines on sustainability issues and hosts the StEP Initiative secretariat. StEP aims to facilitate sustainable e-waste management worldwide through research, sharing best practices, and bringing together various stakeholders. It has over 50 members and multiple task forces working on topics like take-back systems, policies, and recycling.
Waternomics - ICT for Water Resource ManagementWaternomics
Objective: WATERNOMICS will provide personalised and actionable information on water consumption and water availability to individual households, companies and cities in an intuitive & effective manner at relevant time-scales for decision m
DPER’s perspective on the transformation of the electricity sector SustainableEnergyAut
Ken Cleary, Climate Change Unit, DPER presents on DPER’s perspective on the transformation of the electricity sector. (Presentation delivered at the inaugural National Energy Research and Policy Conference in Dublin, Nov 2019)
Power to the people: shifting control over electricity to citizens and consumersLeonardo ENERGY
Efficient electricity prices are only the first step to unleashing the potential for consumers to help drive the energy transition. In this webinar, David Robinson from the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies will present on how consumers can help decarbonize the electricity system and how to engage the demand side through a combination of price and non-price incentives.
Public awareness and feedback – Insights from the SmartH2O project SmartH2O
The document discusses insights from the SmartH2O project on raising public awareness and providing feedback to induce behavior change related to water consumption. It outlines two main challenges of how to present consumption information to users and motivate them to change behavior. It then describes the SmartH2O approach which includes a consumer portal with gamification elements, consumption feedback, tips, goals and rewards to engage users. Initial results from a validation study in Spain show positive user acceptance of the technology and motivation from gamification. Analysis of user activity levels and consumption data also provide early signs that the approach may help influence behaviors.
ICT4S - Smart city planning and environmental aspects?: lessons from six citiesSURFsara
The document discusses lessons learned from examining smart sustainable city initiatives in six cities. It contains three main lessons: 1) initiatives must evaluate their net environmental effects, 2) cities must act on the findings of net effects evaluations, and 3) long-term research is needed on potential urban form and economic changes. The document also describes three categories of implementation: sharing things and spaces, smart energy, and supporting lifestyle choices. Finally, it discusses strategies for development and sharing, and calls for further discussion on changing production/consumption and enabling societal change.
The clean tech ecosystem in Barcelona is small, but solid. New models of clean tech use IT as a key elements (cleanweb). Here some insights about its players, what works, and what needs to be improved.
John Young, Head of Policy at SSE Airtricity, delivers a presentation on Offshore Wind Enablers and lessons from the GB experience. (Presentation delivered at the inaugural National Energy Research and Policy Conference in Dublin, Nov 2019)
Solar energy ongoing project by Christian BardajíASCAME
The energy model on which the majority of cities in developed countries are based upon is characterized by centralization and unsustainability. Barcelona, being a Mediterranean city, faces the challenge to increase its solar energy supply, moving towards a more sustainable energy model, while strengthening the network's business sector.
ASCAME is committed to this initiative, in the framework of the European project FOSTEr in MED gathering together in the auditorium of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Navigation of Barcelona, several experts in the field of renewable energy, as well as companies, public authorities, universities and organizations that will analyse the state of sector, its’ trends and the business development scenario emerged.
Cleanweb is about the development of ICT-based business solutions that make an efficient use of resources (i.e. energy, water). Many opportunities exists for entrepreneurs, investors, and society in general.
Dr Xiaonan Wang presents the How to build resilience.io for sustainable urban energy and water systems, Energy seminar for The Energy Futures Lab at Imperial College, London on 2nd December 2016
The team will cover the Current Status of the project (Rembrandt Koppelaar), Water Demands (Xiaonan Wang, Koen H. van Dam), Infrastructure construction (Rembrandt Koppelaar) and Toilet usage (Xiaonan Wang, Koen H. van Dam)
Australia with a Drying Climate - Sustainable urban water management. By what...SmartH2O
The document discusses sustainable urban water management strategies for Perth, Western Australia as the region experiences drying climate conditions and declining rainfall. It outlines three levels of strategies: 1) behavioral change programs like H2omesmart, 2) improved efficiency standards for appliances, and 3) new technologies such as decentralized seawater desalination plants and dual reticulation systems. Case studies on these initiatives show potential for significant water savings through community-based social marketing, more efficient devices, and alternative water sources. Future research is proposed on developing new urban villages with integrated water recycling and renewable energy systems.
Modeling Water Demand in Droughts (in England & Wales)Ben Anderson
This document describes an agent-based microsimulation model for estimating domestic water demand under drought conditions in the UK. The model simulates individual households and factors that influence water usage, such as household attributes, appliances, practices, pricing, and drought interventions. Preliminary results show that including drought responses can reduce total water demand by 5% compared to not including responses. Further development of the model will add more influencing factors and link it to drought forecasts to better estimate future water demand scenarios.
This document discusses a research project called InSmart that aimed to model and evaluate energy efficiency in the city of Trikala, Greece. The project defined sources of energy demand and supply in the city, created a baseline model of 2012 energy usage, developed 15 alternative energy efficiency scenarios, and used multi-criteria decision making to evaluate and prioritize the scenarios. Key findings indicated that upgrading the energy efficiency of all city buildings could make the most significant contribution to improved energy efficiency, while other high-impact scenarios involved upgrading public lighting and increasing renewable energy production. The research concluded that defining and measuring city-level energy efficiency is important, and that governments play a vital role in long-term planning and implementing local energy efficiency policies.
SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES IN WATER LOSS MANAGEMENT AND NRW REDUCTIONiQHub
This document discusses water loss management strategies and challenges. It provides the following key points:
1) The World Bank estimates annual physical water losses in developing countries at 32 billion cubic meters, costing $3 billion. Reducing losses by half could supply 90 million more people.
2) Common challenges for utilities include not knowing the extent and location of leaks, integrating data from multiple sources, and prioritizing leak detection and repair activities.
3) A successful water loss management program follows a lifecycle approach including monitoring, detection, intervention, performance measurement, planning and investment. Key steps involve identifying leaks, prioritizing zones for repair, supervising repair work, and ongoing monitoring of network performance.
Ontario Society of Professional Engineers OSPE Green Infrastructure Roundtabl...Robert Muir
Green Infrastructure – Cost Effectiveness and Technical Challenges for Flood Mitigation, Robert J. Muir, M.A.Sc., P.Eng.
Manager, Stormwater, City of Markham, January 30, 2018 - Mississauga, Ontario
The presentation presents regulations and policies regarding cost effective infrastructure, explores green infrastructure capital costs in Ontario based on recent project tender costs and other North American extensive program sources, explores lifecycle cost (LCC) impacts of widespread green infrastructure implementation in Ontario, including cost per household and impacts on the current infrastructure deficit, and presents benefit cost analysis for city-wide grey and green infrastructure strategies including benefit/cost ratios for flood damage reduction. Unit costs of no regret programs such as sanitary downspout disconnection and plumbing isolation programs, and wastewater and stormwater system upgrades, and green infrastructure retrofits are presented per hectare. Gaps in research relying on meta-analysis estimates of flood control benefits that do not consider local engineering or costs are presented. Impacts of green infrastructure on wastewater systems and infiltration stresses is presented, and correlation of wastewater infiltration stresses with local sewer back-up risks is shown for the City of Markham. Water supply risks of green infrastructure relying on infiltration including chloride stresses are explored. The unfavourable benefit-cost profile of green infrastructure and potential impacts on wastewater system flood risks and municipal water supplies suggests a strategic review of implementation targets and policies is warranted to identify financially sustainable and technically-appropriate requirements.
This document summarizes several funding opportunities under the 2020 Cross-Cutting Call from the European Commission for competitive, low carbon, and circular industries. Key topics include tapping the potential of industrial symbiosis, preserving fresh water through industrial water recycling, using alternative mineral resources, and developing novel high performance materials. The call aims to strengthen sustainability and the circular economy in European industry through funding for demonstration projects and coordination activities. Deadlines for proposals range from February to September 2020, with total funding of over 200 million euros available.
September 10th 2015, 10:00 – 11:30 – The development of WASH use case studies to simulate in the model – GTG Webinar. We will also discuss sets of technology and policy options that are to be investigated as well as anticipated population and economic development scenarios and their impacts on the WASH sector. The initial use cases will be presented by Rembrandt Koppelaar with interactive input and discussion by GTG members. Thereafter GTG will be asked to provide own use cases.
This document discusses the Waternomics project, which aims to develop smart water management applications. It notes that water demand is increasing globally while infrastructure is costly to maintain. The Waternomics project involves 3 pilot sites in Greece, Italy, and Ireland to test applications for domestic, corporate, and city users. The goal is to use new technologies and data to improve water monitoring, leak detection, and encourage conservation.
November 17th 2015, 11:00 – 12:30 – An outline summary of potential use cases to demonstrate the functionality of the prototype of resilience.io. The cases outlined at this meeting are based on inputs given by the GTG at the September meeting. Use-case development will be collaborative with the GTG and the final selection of use cases will take place in January 2016.
An Economic Analysis of Green v. Grey InfrastructureRobert Muir
Water Environment Association of Ontario 2019 Annual Conference, Toronto, Ontario, April 16, 2019
by Robert J. Muir, M.A.Sc., P.Eng., Fabian Papa, MBA, P.Eng.
Presentation reviews policies and regulations in Ontario promoting cost-effective infrastructure servicing. Summarizes the assessment of cost effectiveness of grey, green and blended green and grey flood damage reduction strategies on a system-wide basis. Identifies triple-bottom-line benefits of erosion mitigation reduction and water quality improvements due to green infrastructure implementation. Details of the analysis are presented in the proceedings paper also included here: https://www.cityfloodmap.com/2019/03/an-economic-analysis-of-green-v-grey.html
The analysis indicates benefit cost ratios for flood control and other benefits and assesses funding impacts on stormwater utility fees in a case study in the City of Markham. Markham's current Flood Control Program consisting largely of grey infrastructure is shown to be cost-effective with benefits exceeding costs by 2 to 1 based on insured loss deferral (and a higher ratio considering higher total losses). Green infrastructure is shown to be less cost-effective at delivering flood control and the cost for achieving water quality benefits exceeds the estimated willingness to pay 'value' of those benefits. The analysis suggests that a critical, strategic evaluation of green infrastructure implementation targets is required prior to system-wide implementation, given cost concerns.
Clean Air Partnership Green Infrastructure CAC Meeting - Don Mills Channel Fl...Robert Muir
Presentation on the application of Cost Benefit Analysis to water resources engineering projects, including for municipal flood control as part of Municipal Class Environmental Assessment infrastructure projects and city-wide programs. Evaluation of green infrastructure (Low Impact Development (LID)) capital costs and grey infrastructure costs.
Program and Policy Innovations at the Water Energy Nexus, presented by Meredith Younghein at the Electrochemical Energy Summit in San Francisco on October 27.
Abengoa presented on global water challenges and innovative technology solutions for sustainability. Some of the key water issues discussed included increasing water demand, climate change, and water pollution from agriculture. Abengoa then summarized their solutions portfolio including desalination plants, wastewater treatment, water reuse, and using public-private partnerships. They also described their work in solar-desalination projects that produce both fresh water and renewable energy.
Green Infrastructure / Low Impact Development LID Design Tool and Lifecycle C...Robert Muir
This document discusses stormwater management and low impact development (LID) targets. It provides background on the evolution of LID targets in Ontario. It then describes analytical probability models that can be used to design LID measures and assess their performance. The document analyzes the capital and lifecycle costs of meeting proposed LID volume targets from the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, finding the costs to be 4-5 times higher than conventional technologies. It also presents unit cost data for completed LID projects and analyzes the lifecycle costs of implementing LIDs in a new development in Markham. The conclusions emphasize the need for system-wide planning to identify cost-effective LID targets and consider full lifecycle costs for sustainable financial
La ricerca e l’innovazione tecnologica per il Servizio Idrico IntegratoServizi a rete
The document summarizes research projects conducted by SMAT Research Center in Turin, Italy. It describes the center's facilities and partnerships. It then provides brief summaries of multiple research projects, including estimating the vulnerability of groundwater resources to climate change, testing hydrodynamic cavitation for drinking water disinfection, modeling wastewater treatment plants, and developing biomethane production and an early warning water monitoring system.
Shri S.V. Ranganath (IAS Retd.), Board Member – CSTEP, delivered a talk at CSTEP on ‘Water and Future of Bengaluru’, as the first part of a series of lectures that he will be delivering on a range of governance-related issues, February 3, 2016.
Similar to resilience.io WASH prototype Debut Workshop - GAMA (20)
We invite investment, in 3 categories, into a new Resilience Brokerage Fund RESBR to be used to complete development and deployment of a unique prototyped Resilience Brokerage software Platform resilience.io into most countries of the world by 2023. Resilience.io supports planning and investment in resilient city development, and has embedded Apps for the best clean technologies to be included in project pipelines.
We invite a minimum of 4 “Core Platform Builders” to invest $5m each for a 6 year term to receive annual interest and dividends.
We invite clean technology investors to invest $2m each for a 6 year term, to receive annual interest and use of the resilience.io platform with 4 Apps for their technologies added.
We invite Geographic investors to make a minimum grant investment of $500,000 for exclusive use of resilience.io in their region/country for integrated land use planning and investment.
In June 2016, with the culmination of 18 months work by the the team from IIER, Imperial College, Future Earth Ltd and the Trust, we visited Accra to debut the WASH sector prototype of our modelling app at the Accra International Conference Centre, 22nd June 2016.
resilience.io is an open-source, collaborative
human, ecological, economic, resource systems, modelling platform to enable “public good”
we also showed this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGyCyxyatAQ
Installation
resilience.io Package Overview
Using the model –step by step
resilience.io Testing Capabilities (and Limitations)
resilience.io Use Examples
Q&A / Interactive Session
The Trust
The future of the collaboratory
Discuss planning of June debut workshops and activities - identify expert users, identify needs and wishes for the interactive workshop sessions, identify particular WASH policy challenges that the Use Cases and prototype can help to inform
Update on FCA, Ghana, Cities Alliance partnership
Update on global activities
ICL IIER Team
Brief outline of early use case findings
Update on visualisations as part of the demonstration of the resilience.io prototype
Lightning Talk by Peter Head CBE FREng FRSA at the RSA Scaling for impact event 1 February 2016.
https://www.thersa.org/events/fellowship-events/2016/2/rsa-engage-scaling-for-impact----1-feb/
My journey to provide and scale support to city regions to meet Global Goals by 2030
In 2008 I was working in Arup, heading up their global planning business with a world class team of transport, environmental, urban and policy and economics experts. Before that I had worked in infrastructure design and delivery, particularly Public Private Partnerships, around the World and I was also an adviser to the Mayor of London Ken Livingstone on his Sustainable Development Commission and so I was very aware of the challenges of achieving improved city resilience.
My team at Arup was working at the cutting edge of low carbon sustainable city planning worldwide, particularly in China. It was there I got very inspired by their vision of an ecological civilisation, living in harmony with nature, as the next phase of development after the industrial model. However getting the plans built everywhere we worked was very difficult because success still revolved around GDP growth and that was the metric decision making. We knew that this was damaging the health of land and ocean ecology, and human well-being was not necessarily improving as a result, but everyone thought that this was the “price of progress”. Development was becoming less inclusive in many more developed countries as well.
I was given the opportunity to develop and articulate a roadmap towards a more resilient Ecological Age in the 2008-9 Brunel Lecture sponsored by Institution of Civil Engineers in London.
I gave this presentation all over the world in 45 cities in 2008-9, and the feedback was very positive, but many were skeptical that a more resilient Ecological Age could be delivered. The financial crash did not help the mood. It was very clear that the disconnect between investment decision making and the community social/ecological system impact at global and local scales was a huge problem. We did not have the tools and understanding of how human and ecology systems and resource flows interact and how this affects investment and health-productivity risks. It was clear to most people that city regions would be critical in determining a successful outcome for humanity by 2050, because of the projected urbanisation and the resulting investment drawn into those locations. The analysis showed that we had to embrace a factor 4 reduction in pollution and resource consumption, including greenhouse gas emissions, by 2050 both in retrofitting existing city regions and in the model for new urbanisation, if a successful outcome was to be achieved...
http://resilience.io/about/rsa-scaling-for-impact/
FCA resilience.io Platform:
Resource Economic Human Ecosystem
Modelling Platform Prototype
Foster Mensah
Centre for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Services (CERSGIS)
University of Ghana
Rachael Kemp, Future Earth Ltd
Stephen Passmore, The Ecological Sequestration Trust
Koen H. van Dam and Harry Triantafyllidis
Department of Chemical Engineering
Imperial College London, UK
6 August 2015
Setting the scene, including updates on our work around our global demonstrator regions, and then talk through WASH priorities and available data (based on a structure we will provide in advance), identifying gaps with you and how we might address them.
The document provides an overview of the Resilience.io modeling platform and its components for simulating an integrated urban system. It describes:
1) The agent-based and optimization modeling approaches used to simulate activities, resource flows, infrastructure networks and markets.
2) How the model represents population demographics, resource processes, infrastructure and service consumption.
3) The process of building a model of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, including developing an integrated data map and adjusting model rulesets to the local context.
This presentation by The Ecological Sequestration Trust and partners Institute for Integrated Economics Research (IIER), Geodan and the International Centre for Earth Simulation (ICES), will show how the integrated systems platform resilience.io can help UB City achieve its goals; how it can help assess new infrastructure project risk and return and identify policies and projects offering the greatest long-term ecological-social-economic benefits for UB citizens.
It will outline how the platform can be used to provide a clear economic case for investment in low carbon sustainable projects and enable global and regional investment to be mobilised to help deliver the UB City Economic Development Strategy.
Transition from agricultural to ecological age
Газар тариалангаас экологийн зуунд шилжих
A new paradigm of urban and rural development with integrated urban and rural resource flows
Хот, хөдөөний нөөцийн нэгдсэн урсгал бүхий хот, хөдөөг хөгжүүлэх шинэ парадигм
Tools for measuring and implementing a “scientific approach to development” and measuring “ecological progress”
“Хөгжилд шинжлэх ухааны үүднээс хандах” явдлыг хэмжих ба хэрэгжүүлэх хэрэгслүүд, “экологийн дэвшлийг” хэмжих
Future Cities Africa
resilience.io prototype development in GAMA
Supporting inclusive, resilient low carbon development
Stephen Passmore
24th March 2015
Future Cities Africa
Future proofing to climate, environment and natural resource challenges
Supporting inclusive, resilient low carbon development
Peter Head CBE FREng FRSA
March 24th 2015
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The findings in this report highlight some of the key factors shaping the experiences and vulnerabilities of young people on the move – particularly their proximity to border spaces and how this affects the risks that they face. The report describes strategies that young people on the move employ to remain below the radar of visibility to state and non-state actors due to fear of arrest, detention, and deportation while also trying to keep themselves safe and access support in border towns. These strategies of (in)visibility provide a way to protect themselves yet at the same time also heighten some of the risks young people face as their vulnerabilities are not always recognised by those who could offer support.
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The Karnataka government, along with the central government’s Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY), offers various housing schemes to cater to the diverse needs of citizens across the state. This article provides a comprehensive overview of the major housing schemes available in the Karnataka housing board for both urban and rural areas in 2024.
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1. Resilience.IO WASH Prototype
Rembrandt Koppelaar, Xiaonan Wang,
Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, UK
IIER – Institute for Integrated Economic Research
Accra - June 2016
Resilience.IO platform
3. We need realistic insights to understand which investment
and policy decisions in reality can work to achieve our plans
To evaluate the result of decision options
Expectations, Goals, Plans
Investment and policy decisions
2015 2020 2025
Option A
Option B
Option C
Decision
choice
?
Situation today
Aims for this decade
Future changes
Environmental, Economic, Social Needs
4. n A data-driven simulation model of a synthetic
population
n To experiment with different scenarios by generating
demand profiles, and to find supply from a
description of technologies and networks using
optimisation with key performance metrics
n A fully open-source approach at ‘laptop’ scale
The approach: Resilience.IO Model
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5. To make this possible a large set of
technology input – output datasets is being built
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Labour input
Hours/day
No. people
Job-types
Waste heat
Material inputs
Quantity/hour
’’ /day
’’ /week
’’ /month
’’ /year
Goods outputs
Quantity/hour
’’ /day
’’ /week
’’ /month
’’ /year
Energy input
Electricity
Heat
Fuels
Liquids Wastes
Volume/time
Solid Wastes
Mass/time
GHG Emissions
Operational cost
Currency/time for labour, energy, materials
Investment cost
Currency/facility
6. 6
Technology example – Sachet Water Facility
Sachet Bag
Production
Facility
Labour hours – 4 hours per m3
HDPE sachet bags – 7.7 kg/m3
HDPE container bags – 0.6 kg/m3
Electricity – 15.1 MJ/m3
Jobs – 3 jobs per 1100 m3
Sachet – 1 m3
2000 x 500 ml
Gasoline – 19.4 MJ/m3
Carbon dioxide – 1.39 kg/m3
Water vapour – 0.64 kg/m3
Nitrogen emissions – 5.85 kg/m3
Plastic Waste – 8.3 kg/m3
7. 7
Technology example – Sachet Water Facility
Sachet Bag
Production
Facility
Labour hours – 4 hours per m3
HDPE sachet bags – 7.7 kg/m3
HDPE container bags – 0.6 kg/m3
Electricity – 15.1 MJ/m3
Jobs – 3 jobs per 1100 m3
Sachet – 1 m3
2000 x 500 ml
Gasoline – 19.4 MJ/m3
Carbon dioxide – 1.39 kg/m3
Water vapour – 0.64 kg/m3
Nitrogen emissions – 5.85 kg/m3
Plastic Waste – 8.3 kg/m3
Example: the estimated sachet water in 2015 used is 1015 m3 per day (+- 2
million sachet bags of 500 ml) à 8.4 tons of HDPE plastic waste
9. Application: WASH in GAMA
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n Explore per district water and wastewater related
outcomes for the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area:
n Socio-economic scenarios
n Source water treatment
n Potable water distribution
n Water demands and usage
n Toilet use
n Waste water collection
n Waste water treatment
12. Data-driven Synthetic population
n A population “in the computer” is generated based on
real data collected for GAMA, leading to a representative
synthetic population (~0.1% of real population)
n Socio-economic data inputs
¨ Gender (male or female)
¨ Age (0-14 years or 15+)
¨ Work force status (Employed / Not active or unemployed)
¨ Income status (Low income / Medium income / High income)
n Spatial data inputs
¨ Home location (point in district)
¨ Work location, based on distance from home
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13. Calculation method (simplified)
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n The population characteristics sets the water demands for
each individual (e.g. lower income à lower water
demands)
n The water use is evaluated for every 5 minutes based on
a time dependent mathematical function.
n Multiply output to aggregate total water demands of the
whole population
14. Similar approach for toilet usage
n Total toilet use profile per MMDA over 24 hours
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Use Times
15. Demonstration
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1. Creation of Synthetic
Population Change
2. Simulate demands
3. Examine what
infrastructure can best
supply demands
16. What happens? Calculation (simplified)
Various settings:
n Initialize model with demands (set by user or from simulation)
n Set initial infrastructure (facilities, pipes, their technology, capacity),
and capital and operational cost values.
n Set desired objectives for calculation: a) to meet % demands for
potable water and b) to achieve % wastewater treatment,
Model calculates how to meet these targets by optimisation, set in our
simulation to find the lowest cost and GHG emissions, taking into
account all the additional settings.
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19. Many additional settings in prototype
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Simulated or user
set demands
Inputs – outputs
- Materials
- Energy
- Labour
Demands
Capacity & load
Technology
facility
Facility Investment
Operational Cost
Networks
Pipe leakage %
Already available
facilities
Already available
connections
Newly allowed
connections
Water use per
population
characteristic
Birth / Deathrates
and Migration
Finance
Tarriffs for water,
wastewater, and
toilet usage
Energy cost per
MJ / kWh and
labour cost per
hour
21. Use Cases to demonstrate the Model
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n Three use cases were selected by the GAMA Technical
Group in Accra, and developed to demonstrate the
functionality of the model from a user perspective:
¨ Use Case 1 – Assess outcomes of ongoing WASH projects and
gaps towards meeting macro-level targets for planning
¨ Use Case 2 – Examine possibilities and costs to increase
household access to improved potable water sources
¨ Use Case 3 – Analyse the availability of clean, accessible and
affordable toilet infrastructure
22. Which use case / scenarios to dive into?
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Use Case 3
Toilets & Waste-water
Use Case 1:
Water & Waste-water
Baseline
Use Case 2
Water supply
Baseline
City-Wide
Decentralised districts
Low pipe leakage variants
Local Pipe Source
Central Pipe
Source
High immigration
variants
Baseline
Public toilet and local
district treatment
Sustainable Development
Goal targets
Private toilets and
central GAMA treatment
24. Use Case 1 “On-going projects”
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n Baseline Scenario A) - assess water and waste-water
situation from 2010 to 2030 including on-going projects
underway since 2010 (investment already secured)
n Assess how to meet 100% improved water and waste-
water demands via scenario “B) City-Wide Systems”
and scenario “C) Decentralised Districts”
n Additional scenario’s of B) and C) with “Leakage
reduction” where a 10% reduction in pipe leakage
from 27% to 17% is set.
25. GAMA situation 2010-2015
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n In the scenarios (except baseline) all unimproved sources are
phased out by 2025 as well as tanker/vendor supplies
26. Baseline Scenario included projects for
potable water
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n On-going / completed projects 2010 - 2025:
¨ Kpone China Gezhouba (186,000 m3/day)
¨ Kpone Tahal (28,000 m3/day)
¨ Teshie Desalination plant (60,000 m3/day)
¨ GAMA additional boreholes (21,000 m3/day)
n Not included – already planned:
¨ Asutuare project at Volta River (200,000 m3/day)
27. Results – Use Case 1 “Baseline Scenario”
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Simulated Values 2015 2025
Population 4.39 million 5.68 million
Water Net Demand (no leaks) 391 thousand m3/day 509 thousand m3/day
Water Losses (27% leaks) 226 thousand m3/day 270 thousand m3/day
Total Gross Demand (incl. leaks) 617 thousand m3/day 779 thousand m3/day
Total Potable Water Production 501 thousand m3/day 652 thousand m3/day
Improved water % Access 70.3% 75.1%
n Values for Potable Water
n Conclusion: Additional treatment capacity needed to
satisfy growing population water demands
29. Results – Use Case 1 “Baseline Scenario”
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Simulated Values 2015 2025
Population 4.39 million 5.68 million
WW Net Demand (no leaks) 313 thousand m3/day 408 thousand m3/day
WW Pipe Losses (27% leaks) 0 thousand m3/day 0 thousand m3/day
Total Wast-water (incl. leaks) 313 thousand m3/day 408 thousand m3/day
Waste-water Treatment 12 thousand m3/day 27 thousand m3/day
Waste-water % Treated 3.8% 5.6%
n Values for Waste-Water
n Conclusion: Improvements being made in waste-water
treatment, but far from 100% treatment goal by 2025
30. Results – Use Case 1 “Baseline Scenario”
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Water Demand and Waste-water profile for 2025 for Baseline Scenario
31. Results – Use Case 1 “Baseline Scenario”
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Water Demand and Production per District 2025 - % water demand met?
§ VOLTA RIVER provides an additional 388 thousand m3/day supply of
treated water.
32. Results – Use Case 1 “Baseline Scenario”
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Electricity use per District 2025
n Conclusion: Electricity use for potable water increased
substantially due to new 60,000 m3/day desalination
plant
33. Results – Use Case 1 “Baseline Scenario”
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Operational cost values per district in 2025
34. Results –“City-Wide Scenario”
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Simulated Values Potable 2015 2025
Population 4.39 million 5.68 million
Water Net Demand (no leaks) 391 thousand m3/day 509 thousand m3/day
Water Losses (27% leaks) 226 thousand m3/day 280 thousand m3/day
Total Gross Demand (incl. leaks) 617 thousand m3/day 789 thousand m3/day
Total Potable Water Production 501 thousand m3/day 789 thousand m3/day
Improved water % Access 70.4% 100%
Simulated Values Waste-Water 2015 2025
WW Net Demand (no leaks) 313 thousand m3/day 407 thousand m3/day
WW Pipe Losses (27% leaks) 0 thousand m3/day 30 thousand m3/day
Total Waste-water (incl. leaks) 313 thousand m3/day 437 thousand m3/day
Waste-water Treatment 12 thousand m3/day 437 thousand m3/day
Waste-water % treated 3.8% 100%
35. Results –“City-Wide Scenario”
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Potable Water Investment 2015 2025
Conventional Water Treatment n/a 559 thousand m3/day
Total Capital Costs 2015-2025 0.99 billion USD
Waste-Water Investment
Central Waste-Water Treatment n/a 259 thousand m3/day
Aerated Lagoon Systems n/a 419 thousand m3/day
Decentralised activated sludge n/a 63 thousand m3/day
Total Capital Costs 2015-2025 1.0 billion USD
Pipeline expansions
Potable Trunks 2015-2025 n/a 11
Cost of pipe expansion n/a 0.23 billion USD
n Conclusion: Additional 200 million USD per year needed
to meet 100% access and treatment goals by 2025
36. Results –“City-Wide Scenario” – Potable + waste
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Operational situation 2015 (million USD) 2025 (million USD)
Total Operational Costs per year 105 136
Of which costs for electricity 2.5 18.2
Of which costs for labour 15.1 21.2
Revenues from water sales* 62.6 100.3
Revenues from sewerage 0.3 35.1
Costs per Citizen (USD) 23.9 24.0
n Conclusion: Revenues sufficient to meet operational
costs under central expansion - if NRW reduced
*If all water users paid at 2016 tariffs!
37. Results –“City-Wide Scenario” – Potable + waste
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Operational situation 2015 (million USD) 2025 (million USD)
GHG emissions in kg per m3 6.7 60.7
Total electricity use in million kWh 35.7 174.9
Electricity use in kWh per m3
69.5 204.4
Total jobs for Water and WW 3081 4328
Labour hours per m3
12.4 7.1
n Conclusion: Substantial expansion in electricity use,
GHG emissions due to waste-water treatment, and jobs
in meeting 100% targets by 2025
38. 2025 : New pipes suggested to meet 100%
improved water demands
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39. 2025 : Potable water flows simulated with new
infrastructure in m3 per day (excludes leaks)
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40. Results – Use Case 1 “City-Wide Scenario”
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Operational cost values per district in 2025
41. Results –“Decentralised Districts Scenario”
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Simulated Values Potable 2015 2025
Population 4.39 million 5.68 million
Water Net Demand (no leaks) 391 thousand m3/day 509 thousand m3/day
Water Losses (27% leaks) 226 thousand m3/day 430 thousand m3/day
Total Gross Demand (incl. leaks) 617 thousand m3/day 939 thousand m3/day
Total Potable Water Production 501 thousand m3/day 939 thousand m3/day
Improved water % Access 70.4% 100%
Simulated Values Waste-Water 2015 2025
WW Net Demand (no leaks) 313 thousand m3/day 407 thousand m3/day
WW Pipe Losses (27% leaks) 0 thousand m3/day 0 thousand m3/day
Total Waste-water (incl. leaks) 313 thousand m3/day 407 thousand m3/day
Waste-water Treatment 12 thousand m3/day 407 thousand m3/day
Waste-water % treated 3.8% 100%
42. Results –“Decentralised Scenario”
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Potable Water Investment 2015 2025
Conventional Water Treatment n/a 689 thousand m3/day
Improved Springs and Wells 40 thousand m3/day
Total Capital Costs 2015-2025 1.61 billion USD
Waste-Water Investment
Central Waste-Water Treatment n/a 0 thousand m3/day
Aerated Lagoon Systems n/a 539 thousand m3/day
Decentralised activated sludge n/a 167 thousand m3/day
Total Capital Costs 2015-2025 0.33 billion USD
Pipeline expansions
Potable Trunks 2015-2025 n/a 0
Cost of pipe expansion n/a 0 billion USD
n Conclusion: Central system expansion for potable water
+ per district treatment for waste-water much more cost
effective
43. 2025 : Potable pipe flows within existing
infrastructure in m3 per day (excludes leaks)
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44. Results – Use Case 1 “Decentralised”
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District by district capacity for aerated lagoon treatment in 2025
45. Results – Use Case 1 “Decentralised”
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District by district capacity for activated sludge treatment in 2025
46. Results – Use Case 1 “Decentralised”
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District by district waste-water investment expenditure
47. Results – Leakage Costs
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Simulated Values City-wide 27% leakage - 2025 17% leakage - 2025
Potable Water Leakage m3/day
280 thousand
m3/day
180 thousand
m3/day
Gross Water Treatment needs
(including leaks)
802 thousand
m3/day
702 thousand
m3/day
Additional investment cost 2015
– 2025 for 100% improved
potable water access
999 million USD 680 million USD
Total System Operational costs
per year
136 million USD 126 million USD
n Conclusion: A 10% reduction in pipe water leakage
results in 300 million USD lower investment needs and a
10 million USD per year operational cost reduction
49. Use Case 2 “Improved Potable Water Sources ”
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n Baseline Scenario A) - assess water and waste-water
situation from 2010 to 2030 including on-going projects
underway since 2010 (investment already secured)
n Assess how to meet 100% improved water demands via
scenario “B) Local Pipe Source” and scenario
“C) Central Pipe Source only”
n Additional scenario’s of A), B) and C) with “High
Immigration” where the population immigration rate is
50% higher then in the baseline
50. Results Comparison –“Central Pipe Immigration”
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Central Pipe 2015 2025
Population 4.39 million 5.68 million
Water Net Demand (no leaks) 391 thousand m3/day 509 thousand m3/day
Water Losses (27% leaks) 226 thousand m3/day 281 thousand m3/day
Total Gross Demand (incl. leaks) 617 thousand m3/day 790 thousand m3/day
Total Potable Water Production 501 thousand m3/day 790 thousand m3/day
Improved water % Access 70.3% 100%
Central Pipe w. high Immigration 2015 2025
Population 4.70 million 7.02 million
Water Net Demand (no leaks) 417 thousand m3/day 629 thousand m3/day
Water Losses (27% leaks) 229 thousand m3/day 309 thousand m3/day
Total Gross Demand (incl. leaks) 646 thousand m3/day 938 thousand m3/day
Total Potable Water Production 513 thousand m3/day 938 thousand m3/day
Improved water % Access 68.0% 100%
51. Results - Central Pipe Immigration”
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Central Pipe 2015 2025
Conventional Water Treatment n/a 663 thousand m3/day
Potable Trunks 2015-2025 n/a 6
Total Capital Costs 2015-2025 1.18 billion USD
Central Pipe w. High Immigration
Conventional Water Treatment n/a 893 thousand m3/day
Potable Trunks 2015-2025 n/a 7
Total Capital Costs 2015-2025 1.65 billion USD
n Conclusion: About 230,000 m3/day of capacity is
required to meet 100% improved water access by 2025
for high immigration, with an additional cost of 470
million USD
52. Results –“Central Pipe + Immigration”
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Operational situation 2025
(baseline)
(million USD)
2025
(Central Pipe)
(million USD)
2025
(Central Pipe)
(million USD)
Population
as per baseline
High
immigration
Total Operational Costs per year 166 81 94
Of which costs for electricity 12.6 9.1 9.9
Of which costs for labour 18.6 1.8 2.1
Revenues from water sales* 100.4 100.3 123.9
Costs per Citizen (USD) 29.2 14.3 13.4
n Conclusion: Replacing local boreholes, spring, and well
systems with central conventional water treatment
substantially reduces system-wide operational costs
54. Use Case 3 “Availability of clean, accessible, and
affordable Toilet infrastructure”
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n A) Baseline Scenario - assess waste-water and
sanitation situation from 2010 to 2030 including on-going
projects underway since 2010 (investment already
secured)
n B) Public toilet & decentralised treatment – toilet
demands are met by public infrastructure with local
district treatment options (no pipe flows)
n C) Private toilet & centralised treatment - toilet
demands are met by private infrastructure with central
faecal sludge treatment via a central waste-water
network
58. Results – “Public Decentral” vs “Private Central”
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Private Central (billion USD) 2010-2015 2015-2025
Capital expenditure for treatment 0.02 2.79
Capital expenditure for private toilets* 0.025 0.099
Total Capital Costs 0.045 2.89
Public Decentralised (billion USD) 2010-2015 2015-2025
Capital expenditure for treatment 0.09 0.26
Capital expenditure for public toilets* 0.042 0.192
Total Capital Costs 0.132 0.352
n Conclusion: the decentralised local treatment of waste-
water and faecal sludge, in combination with public toilet
systems would be much more cost effective
*Based on a 244 USD cost for a private toilet, and a 31 thousand USD cost for a public toilet
** Private toilets with a central treatment system become economically favourable when the cost to build
one public toilet increases to more than 678.4 thousand USD
59. Results – Use Case 3 - “Private Centralised”
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District by district Private Toilet Needs in 2025
60. Results – Use Case 3 - “Private Centralised”
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District by district Central Waste Water Treatment in 2025
61. Results – Use Case 3 - “Private Centralised”
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Waste-water + faecal sludge pipe flow map for 2025
62. Results – Use Case 3 - “Public Decentralised”
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District by district Public Toilet Use Times per day (every 5 minutes)
63. Results – Use Case 3 - “Public Decentralised”
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District by district Public Toilet Needs in 2025
64. Results – Use Case 3 - “Public Decentralised”
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District by district Aerated Lagoon Capacity in 2025
65. Results – Use Case 3 - “Public Decentralised”
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District by district Activated Sludge Capacity in 2025
66. Results – Use Case 3 - “Public Decentralised”
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District by district Faecal Sludge Separation & Drying in 2025
68. Many additional settings in prototype
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Simulated or user
set demands
Inputs – outputs
- Materials
- Energy
- Labour
Demands
Capacity & load
Technology
facility
Facility Investment
Operational Cost
Networks
Pipe leakage %
Already available
facilities
Already available
connections
Newly allowed
connections
Water use per
population
characteristic
Birth / Deathrates
and Migration
Finance
Tarriffs for water,
wastewater, and
toilet usage
Energy cost per
MJ / kWh and
labour cost per
hour
69. Next phase(s) of the project
n Construction of user friendly GIS graphical interface, to
upload data, run the model, and see results.
n Multi-sector model
¨ water-energy-food nexus integrated modelling
¨ entire urban economy (15 sectors)
n Domain use expansions
¨ Socio-economic dynamics
¨ Happiness and health metrics
¨ Climate scenarios and flooding
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