Blue Green Deals with Integrated Solutions
Water as an enabler to accelerate resilient and sustainable development
Subtheme #1. Clean Water and Ecosystem Restoration
Subtheme #2. Reuse, Recycle and Recover
- Ecosystem balance & restoring natural processes and water cycle
- Nature-based solutions & green-blue integrated infrastructural solutions
- Reclaim and Reuse of wastewater
- Safe Resource recovery
- Central versus local/ decentralised solutions for drinking water production & wastewater treatment
- Water for Food: water reuse & water efficiency
Subtheme #3. Risk and Resilience
Subtheme #4. Community engagement and inter-sectoral collaboration
- Adaptive & resilient design of water infrastructure: water quality, flooding and drought
- Early warning systems for high disaster-risk prone regions & availability of data
- Financial systems to strengthen dealing with risk preparedness
- Building awareness and trust among communities, inclusive decision-making on future climate risks and ecosystem processes
- Water (re)allocation: finding common ground for robust water distribution
- Smart data tools for data-driven community engagement