What is SmartWater4Future?
SmartWater4Future is a research project under the EU WATER4ALL 2022 JOINT TRANSNATIONAL CALL
Management of water resources: resilience, adaptation & mitigation to hydroclimatic extreme events & management tools.
We aim to develop new and improved tools for risk assessment, integrated modeling of flooding from urban drainage systems coupled with river catchment and recipients (rivers, lakes, wetland and sea) under hydroclimatic extremes, supported by historical data and on-site monitoring instant data especially for Nordic and arctic areas. Sustainable Life Cycle Assessment, providing holistic decision support toolkit to help water utilities to manage the water and wastewater systems for safe distribution, collect and treatment of water and wastewater from inlet to recipient in regard to the water quantity and quality under the extreme stressors such as intense precipitation and huge temperature variations. Scientific and/or technological aims: To establish an extensive database with historical data, predicted meteorological data of future scenarios, and high-resolution data for regional and global climate change and definition of hydroclimatic extreme events. Thus improving resilience and adaptation capacity of water infrastructure (e.g., industrial water facilities, urban networks, wastewater treatment facilities, stormwater management systems and rural systems) to hydroclimatic extreme events. Development of methodology for quantification of ecosystem services of wetlands with respect to hydrological functions, which includes hydrological modeling of water regime provided for normal and extreme events (floods and droughts), and future climate projection scenarios with ecosystem services. The project is based two field sites in Sweden and two field sites in Norway, implemented by 7 Work Packages (WPs).