SWITCH Training Kit: Pilot Training, Muñoz, 27-28 July 2010

Wastewater Management in the City of the Future

Wastewater and sustainable urban water management

SWITCH Training Kit: Pilot Training, Muñoz, 27-28 July 2010

The Urban Water Cycle

The SWITCH approach to urban water management:

Integration = more sustainable

SWITCH Training Kit: Pilot Training, Muñoz, 27-28 July 2010

Wastewater and the urban water cycle

Stormwater

WastewaterWater supply

Water quality

Potential resource

Sewer capacities

Water treatment standards

Potential resource

Wastewater volume

The Urban Water Cycle

SWITCH Training Kit: Pilot Training, Muñoz, 27-28 July 2010

Links between urban wastewater management and other areas of the water sector

Stormwater management

Water supply

Water treatment

Water quality

SWITCH Training Kit: Pilot Training, Muñoz, 27-28 July 2010

Links between wastewater management and other sectors of urban management

FarmingParks, gardens and recreation

Local economic development

Energy

Housing

Health

SWITCH Training Kit: Pilot Training, Muñoz, 27-28 July 2010

Conventional approach to wastewater management

Wastewater network which collects and treats all wastewater streams

SWITCH Training Kit: Pilot Training, Muñoz, 27-28 July 2010

Drawbacks of the conventional approach to wastewater management

Pollution risk

SWITCH Training Kit: Pilot Training, Muñoz, 27-28 July 2010

Drawbacks of the conventional approach to wastewater management

Expensive technology and high energy use

SWITCH Training Kit: Pilot Training, Muñoz, 27-28 July 2010

Drawbacks of the conventional approach to Wastewater management

Missed opportunities

SWITCH Training Kit: Pilot Training, Muñoz, 27-28 July 2010

Increased urbanisation Deteriorating infrastructure

Increasing challenges

Population growthIncreasing energy costs Environmental

impacts

SWITCH Training Kit: Pilot Training, Muñoz, 27-28 July 2010

Stormwater Management in the City of the Future

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