CLUWAL

Closing the urban water loop - Integrated urban water and wastewater management for increased sustainability

CLUWAL

Water as a resource is becoming scarce. Hence, prudent utilisation of the precious water resources is increa­singly important. Whilst, for private homes, this is easily understandable, this becomes a major challenge for cities with a large number of inhabitants and stakeholder groups. Management of scarce water resources is, therefore of importance not only for countries such as Israel, but also some parts of Germany (e.g. in the south of Berlin) will experience water scarcity in the future.

In the research project CLUWAL, researchers from ifak, together with researchers at Technion in Haifa/ Israel (research group of Prof. Eran Friedler), are developing simulation-based evaluation methods. These will allow municipalities and water authorities to assess their water systems and related measures according to social, ecological and economic criteria of sustainability, thus allowing a prudent management of the precious water resources.