PROGRAMME - Embrace the Water Conference Monday 12 09:00-10:00 09:00 10:00-11:00 Session 1 Plenary Room Registration Meet and Greet Coffee (Winter Garden ) OPENING: Welcome and Introduction to the Conference Facilitator: Corinne Trommsdorff, IWA Welcome Speakers: Henrik Kant, conference chair, managing director department of Sustainable Waste and Water, City of Gothenburg Ann-Sofie Hermansson, Mayor of Gothenburg KEYNOTE PLENARY Jan Eliasson, Former Deputy Secretary-General of the UN- The global context of water and cities Cities Representatives signing the Principles for Water-Wise Cities introduced by Barbara Anton, ICLEI Ann-Sofie Hermansson, Mayor of Gothenburg Jakob Møller Nielsen, Director for Urban Development of Copenhagen 11:00 - 12:30 Session 2 Plenary Room Water for an Attractive City - Enhancing Livability Facilitator: Corinne Trommsdorff, IWA Video Briefs Table Discussions KEYNOTE PLENARY Tony Wong, CRC, AU - Re-creating natural capital in cities and the role of utilities of the future; Introduced by Bo Aronson (IFHP) Kelly Shannon, USC, USA/NO- Urban landscapes valuing water; Introduced by Martin Dubbeling (ISOSCARP) 12:30-14:00 14:00-15:30 Session 3 Plenary Room and Winter Garden 15:30 15:45-17:30 Session 4 Site visits 19:00-21:00 Lunch Break Our Mosaic of Methods: Learning Cases on Paper and In Person Facilitator: Magnus Arnell, RISE Poster Presentations Coffee Break See, experience and learn! River Bank Boat Tour RiverCity Gothenburg (Älvstranden) Project Site Housing and Development area HSB Living Lab/ Torp Rya Wastewater Treatment Plant Welcome Reception and Dinner City-Utility Leaders Forum (On Invitation Only) 13:30-17:30 Tuesday 13 08:30-09:00 09:00 - 10:30 Session 5 Plenary Room Meet and Greet Opening of Day 2: Water Sensitive Urban Design & Planning for an Uncertain Future Facilitator: Corinne Trommsdorff Video Briefs Table Discussions KEYNOTE PLENARY Helle Søholt - Water Benefits Public Life Steve Moddemeyer: How to Implement Adaptive and Flexible Infrastructure that Meets Community Needs William Veerbeek - Climate Adaptation in Rotterdam: Certain about Uncertainty 10:30 - 11:00 11:00 - 12:30 Session 6 Rooms 1-4 Coffee Break Parallel interactive sessions - Water for an Attractive City and Planning for an Uncertain Future Room 1 - Water for an Attractive City Room 2 - Water Sensitive Urban Design 12:30 - 14:00 14:00 - 15:30 Sesion 7 Rooms 1-4 15:30 - 16:00 16:00 - 17:30 Session 8 Plenary Room 17:30 19:00 - 22:00 Room 3 - Flood Resilience - Room 4 - Integrated Water the Scandinavian Management - planning for Experience increased resilience Lunch Break Parallel interactive sessions - Regenerative Water Cities and Engaged Community Room 1 - Water-Energy Nexus Room 2 - Alternative Systems for a Circular Economy Room 3 - Water Wise Communities Break Urban Labs: Gothenburg, Copenhagen & Bodø End of Sessions Dinner at the Opera House Room 4 - Engaged Community Wednesday 14 08:30-09:00 Meet and Greet Who Does What? Essential Roles and Responsibilities of Urban Stakeholders in Water-wise Cities Facilitator: Corinne Trommsdorff, IWA Video Briefs 09:00-10:30 Session 9 Plenary Room 10:30 - 11:00 11:00 - 12:30 Session 10 Plenary Room Keynote Plenary Carol Howe, ForEvaSolutions, The Importance of Transdisciplinary Teamwork Urban Stakeholders in Water-Wise Cities Panel Urban Planner - Ellen Kelder Water Utility Manager Authority Representative Housing Development Representative City Leader Coffee Break How To? Community Technical Learning Exchange Facilitator: Corinne Trommsdorff, IWA Video Briefs Community Technical Learning Exchnage 20 Topics presented over table exchanges Plenary Highlights 12:00 - 14:00 14:00 - 15:30 Session 11 Plenary Room Lunch Break Closing: Reflections on Our Conference, Our Next Actions and Next Steps Video Briefs Facilitator: Corinne Trommsdorff, IWA Table Exchanges Closing of the Conference Game Keynote Visionary Future Trends in our Area Closing Reflections and Next Steps by Conference Chair Detailed Session Programmes MONDAY 12 Session 3: How To? Community Technical Learning Exchange Title 14:00-15:30 Theme 1- Water for an Attractive City Plenary Room and Winter Garden Speaker Nationality A Causal Model To Understand The Impact Of Blue Infrastructures On Health And Well-being Thomas. MF FR Sao Paulo City: The Challenges Towards A Green-Blue Network Implementation Felix Aires, C BR Challenges And Needs In Urban Stormwater Planning -- A Swedish Case Study Rauch, S SE Local Climate Projections And Their Implications For Raingardens In Bergen Heimstad, G NO Development of an Integrated and Strategic Healthy Waters Management Plan for the Broadwater, Gold Coast, Australia Durand, B AU Smart CSO Control In Gothenburg -- Balance Between Recipients, Wastewater Treatment Plant Loads And Safety Nivert, G SE Practical Experience Of Urban Water (Management) In Various Scale. Allik, M SE Monitoring Urban Catchments In A Rapidly Changing World Schroeck, J SE Regenerative Water Services Of Water Resources In Samsun City Of Turkey Buyukgungor, H TR Exploring The Sustainability Of An Integrated Urban Wastewater System Intervention Under Future Threats Sweetapple, C UK Local And Decentralized Water Management Concepts As Part Of Smart Cities -- An Evidence Based Review Umar, M NO Unravelling The Urban Water-energy Nexus In México City, México Susnik, J NL Theme 2 - Managing Uncertain Futures Theme 3 - Regenerative Water Cities TUESDAY 13 Room 1 Room 2 11:00-12:30 Theme: Water for an Attractive City Session 6 Rooms 1-4 Session title: Water for an Attractive City Topic for discussion: How can the benefits of water to urban lifeability be maximzied? Title Name Country Reflections On The Importance Of Water For Liveability In Shanghai Istrate, A CN Soul Of Nørrebro -- Innovative Climate Adaptation Process For Increased Urban Quality And Resiliency Reopening Of Culverted Streams And Rivers Nyerup Nielsen, C DK Rapp, Ø NO Joint Efforts To Create The Waterproof Recipe For Climate Adaptation In An Existing Urban Area Soerensen, M. W. DK Room 4 Room 3 Theme: Water for an Attractive City Theme: Managing Uncertain Futures Session title: Water Sensitive Urban Design Topic for discussion: What green and blue solutions help cities adapt to climate change? Session title: Flood Resilience - the Scandinavian Experience Topic for discussion: What can we learn from the Scandinavian cloud burst management experience? Topic for discussion: How to plan for increased resilience of cities to water-related changes? Valorizing rainwater Title Title Name Country Theme: Managing Uncertain Futures Session title: Integrated Water Management - planning for increased resilience Name Country The RiverCity Gothenburg Embraces The Water In The New Area Of Frihamnen Integrated Resiliency Planning Through BGI In A NYC Setting Rantfors, K SE City Master Plan For Cloudburst Management In Gothenburg Mårtensson, E SE Stausgaard Munk, T DK Implementing Copenhagen Cloudburst Management Plan, Opportunities And Challenges Clauson-Kaas, J DK Blue-Green Infrastructure And Flood Resiliency: A Copenhagen Perspective Integrated Water Planning Strategies For Water Practitioners And Urban Planners Sønderup, H DK Malmo Cloudburst Managament Plan Svensson, P Ryan, S UK Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems For Cloudburst Management In A Combined Sewer Network Perspective - A Case Study Haghighatafsh ar, S 12:30 - 14:00 Title Name Country Frihamnen -- A Unique Opportunity For Sustainable Stormwater Management Creating A Tool For Investment Management And Planning For Future Scenarios - Case HSY Rudling, M SE Ekholm, H FI SE Urban resilience & wellbeing: exploring a cross-sector approach Simkins, P UK SE How can insurance act as a tool to increase resilience to weather and climate related disaster risk Persson, M DK Lunch break Room 1 14:00-15:30 Theme: Regenerative Water Cities Session 7 Session title: Reusing Water and Recovering Energy Rooms 1-4 Topic for discussion: Dealing with uncertain future is partly about using less water and energy. How can we harness energy of urban water from the the catchment to the tap and all the way to wastewater management? How can we value rainwater as a resource, rather than dispose of it a nuisance? Title Name Country Evaluation of building roofs from water-energy-food nexus perspective and suggestion for rainwater-wise city Han, M KR Renewable Energy And Energy Recovery Solutions In The Developing City Of Bursa, Turkey Korkmaz, S TR Reucity- reusing water and energy in cities, the example of Lloret del Mar Atanasova, N IT Grey Water As A Reliable/renewable Source Of Water For Cities Of The Future And An Appraisal Based On Istanbul, Turkey Beler-Baykal, B TR Room 2 Room 4 Room 3 Theme: Regenerative Water Cities Session title: Alternative Systems for a Circular Economy Topic for discussion: Opportunities from alternative wastewater systems to better manage our limit resources. How does this impact our future buildings and neighborhood planning? Theme: Engaged Community Theme: Engaged Community Session title: Water-Wise Communities Session title: Engaged Community Topic for discussion : How to bring institutions to work together Topic for discussion: Engaging with citizens: why, and how? on solving complex issues Title Title The Emerging Trend Of Source Separation For Wastewater Management - Management Experiences From Urban Pilot Areas Semi-decentralised Urban Sanitation Systems: Urine Diversion And Drying Through A Techno-conceptual Lens Greater paris utility- considering urine separation for future neighborhoods : a means to harness resources and reduce CAPEX in new wastewater infrastructure Malta - Making the Most of Water Scarcity Name Country Name Country Title Name Country Kjerstadius, H SE Creating A Water-wise City: Implementing A Framework For Systematic Sustainable Water Management In Melbourne Skinner, R AU Enter The Climate Laboratory In Denmark / Exit Utopia Baker, H DK Simha, P SE Empowering Community Collaboration to Solve Urban Flooding Challenges Gallet, D USA ICT-enabled Learning Experiences For Improved Urban Stormwater Management Seifert-Dähnn, I NO Esculier, F FR Water In The City - Involving And Informing Stakeholders Wennberg, C SE The Effect Of Images On Processing Messages About Stormwater Management: the Role Of Discrete, Negative Emotions Schultz, T AU Naughton, M MT How To Achieve Cross-functional, Collaborative Stormwater Planning? A Multiple-case Study Of Swedish Municipalities Goldkuhl, L SE Public Acceptance For The Implementation Of The EU-WFD In Urban Areas - Case Study Emscher River Basin, Germany Heldt, S DE WEDNESDAY 14 11:00-12:30 Session title: How To? Community Technical Learning Exchange Session 10 Title Plenary Room Addressing Growth And Decay Of Pathogens In Urban Rivers Using Pilot Scale Experimental Flumes Finding Space For Water In A Growing City Challenges In Implementing Integrated Catchment Management And Sustainable Stormwater Solutions In Bangkok, Thailand Water Sensitive Planning & Designs As An Ecologically Inspired Approach To Delivering Flood Resilient Urban Environment Stormwater Management Planning From A Holistic Hydrologic Perspective -- An Innovative Study From Vänersborg, Sweden Name Nationality Wennberg, A. C. NO Bråthen, C Maneewan, C NO NZ Jayawardena, I NZ Roldin, M SE Stormwater Management In Urban Small Catchments Under Nordic Climate Conditions Raspati, G Open Water Filtering Facilities In Urban Areas: Are They Effective Nutrient Sinks To Be Used In Stream Daylighting? Moe, T Communities Of Practice -- Driving Water Sensitive Design In South Africa? Carden, K Delivery Of Blue Green Infrastructure Through Social Innovation (BEGIN) Kelder, E Step Towards Water Smart City:Dwarka Sub City, Delhi, India Shivali, J NO Innovation Policy and Strategy for Rainwater-wise City at Seoul City: Past, Present and Future Climate Change And Road Design Calling The COPs On Water Volatility Climate Adaption In The Catchment Area Of St. Vejle Å (Great Vejle River) Copenhagen Solutions To Go - How Bilateral Collaboration Move Things Forward Kiwook, K Gangelhof, U Symmonds, G Wibroe, J Leonardsen, L KP DK US DK DK Grung, M NO Bergion, V Lönnqvist, J SE SE Paardenkoper, M Chen, J NL CH From Traffic To The Aquatic Environment -- Compounds, Mobilization, Effects, And Sources Quantifying Health Effects Of Microbial Risk Reduction Measures In A Changing Climate For Cost-benefit Analysis Evaluating the plant cover of northern Sweden’s green roofs MGA to get separate stakeholders with different interests to collaborate and form a group with common goals A pilot project of Sponge City construction in Tongzhou, Beijing Lunch 12:30 NO ZA NL IN ALL POSTERS Title Name Nationality Flood Resilience And How To Measure It, A Syntactical View On Flood Resilience Of Gothenburg, Sweden Abshirini, E. SE Abu Raiya, M. Ajayi, O. A. IL NG Allik, M SE Governance Aspects And Trans Disciplinary Water Management Sustainable Energy Generation Through Waste Water: A Case Study Of The City Of Lagos, Nigeria Practical Experience Of Urban Water (Management) In Various Scale. Drinking Water Estimation And Water Crisis Management Under Drought Condition In Sanandaj City, Iran Amini, A IR Concrete Sewer Corrosion Prediction By Artificial Neural Network Amirkanany, M IR Mobile Phone Networks Improve Operational Rainfall Monitoring In Gothenburg, Sweden Andersson, J. SE Developing Design Criteria For Flood Protection In The City Of Gothenburg Bodin-Sköld, H. SE Evaluating The Resilience Of Large Water Reservoirs Under Climate Change Buoro, A. BR Regenerative Water Services Of Water Resources In Samsun City Of Turkey Buyukgungor, H. TR Cauchois, A UK Danielaini, T AU Measuring The Invisible: Exploiting The Water-energy Nexus To Estimate Private Groundwater Draft In Urban India Water Issues And Challenges Of Urbanisation On Ecosystem And Liveability Within Cirebon Metropolitan Region, Indonesia Development of an Integrated and Strategic Healthy Waters Management Plan for the Broadwater, Gold Water Coast, Strategy AustraliaWith Social Media Platforms Integrating Urban Durand, B AU for Promoting Sustainable Development Goals In Smart City Eschen-Wu NL Sao Paulo City: The Challenges Towards A Green-Blue Network Implementation Felix Aires, C BR Barriers For Sustainable Urban Water Governance. The Norwegian Case Franco-Torres, M NO The Quest For Identity: Belgrade Waterfront BetweenTechniques AspirationsFor AndModelling Limitations Implementation And Assessment Of Regionalisation Stormwater Systems In An Ungauged Catchment Gligorijevć, Z RS Gragne, A. NO Reconstructing The Flows In An Urban Catchment After A Flood Event Gragne, A. NO Gupta, H IN Gustafsson, L-G SE Habibipourzare, A DE Heimstad, G NO Jeschka, S. DE Occurrence And Removal Of Microplastics In Stormwater Ponds And Wastewater Wetlands Jönsson, R. Repositioning Water Sector Reform In Dar Es Salaam: Examining The Adoption, Usage And Social Relations In Strategy The City.Formulation And Stakeholder Driven Water Management In Two Kamau, E. Climate Resilience Indian Himalayan Cities Khan, R. SE Korean Teenagers' Perception Of Tap Water Performance Modelling Of Sustainable Stormwater Assets Using EPA SWMM-5 Smart CSO Control In Gothenburg -- Balance Between Recipients, Wastewater Treatment Plant Loads And Safety Linking Urban Green Landscape To The Urban Water System: An Adaptation To Water Scarcity And Uncertainty Tehran Local Climate ProjectionsIn And Their Implications For Raingardens In Bergen Approach To Assess The Sustainable Development Of A Neighbourhood As A Result Of A Water Management Measure KE IN Evaluation On The Quality Of Bangkok Tap Water With Other Drinking Purposed Water Kim, H. Kordach, A. KR TH Performance of a pilot-scale membrane bioreactor for treatment of domestic used water at short solids retention time Low, S. L. SG A Causal Model To Understand The Impact Of Blue Infrastructures On Health And Well-being Assessment Of Water Quality In Groundwater Resources Of Iran Using A Modified Drinking Water Quality Index (DWQI) Disaster Countermeasures For Water Supply Formed By Diverse Entities - The Case Of Tokyo Utilizing The AORC Software For Estimating Vegetation Cover Over The Ghasre-dasht Gardens In Shiraz City During 2001-201 Path Dependencies Of Jakarta's Flood-control Infrastructure: A Reflection Of Its Historical Context Marie-Florence, T. FR Mohebbi, M. IR Naito, K. JP Octavianti, T. UK A Tailored Service For Urban Hydrological Climate Change Impact Assessment: Urban SIS SURFF - Operational Prediction Tools For Cities Based On Hydraulic Simulations And Nowcast Data Upscaling Of Sustainable Stormwater Management In China: From An Academic Term To A National Strategy Olsson, J. SE Petersen, S. DK Qiao, X. SE Vulnerability Of Water Bodies To Runoff Water From Construction And Operation Of Roads Ranneklev, S. NO Challenges And Needs In Urban Stormwater Planning -- A Swedish Case Study Rauch, S. SE Nazemosadat, S. M. J. IR Monitoring Urban Catchments In A Rapidly Changing World Schroeck, J SE On-site Retention - An Important Contribution To Sustainable Storm Water Management Sörelius, H. SE Water's Role In Liveable Modern Cities Sukumaran, A AU Constructed Stormwater Systems Extended To Provide Biodiversity-neutral Roads Sun, Z. SE Unravelling The Urban Water-energy Nexus In México City, México Exploring The Sustainability Of An Integrated Urban Wastewater System Intervention Under Future Threats Susnik, J NL Sweetapple, C UK Hydro Model For Gothenburg -- Advanced 3-way Coupled Hydraulic Models Local And Decentralized Water Management Concepts As Part Of Smart Cities -- An Evidence Based Review Thorén, H. DK Uhl, W NO BEGIN - Blue Green Infrastructure Through Social Innovation Van Herk, S. Infosys Leading The Way In Water Sustainability In India Verma, N. The Importance Of The Decision Support System With Help To Overcome The Water Crisis Sao Paulo Metropolitan Region Wada, C ES Urban Settlement Open Space Development By Approach WSUD Method In MANADO City ID Warouw, F. IN BR
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