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Our Vision
Water Europe's vision is a Water-Smart Society in which the value of water is recognised and realised. Water is essential to our health, communities, economy and environment. Built around this core value, the model pursues three objectives, water security, sustainability and resilience, driven by five innovation concepts. The Marketplace turns this vision into action by making innovation easier to discover, connect and apply.
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This core value reflects the centrality of water as a human right and its fundamental role in our society. A multifaceted role that includes enabling all economic activities, underpinning societal functions related to citizen health and well-being, while also representing a source of economic value generated from the extraction and valorisation of raw materials and energy contained in water systems, thereby offering a unique sustainable source to serve a circular economy.
Safeguarding sustainable access to sufficient quantities of affordable and fit-for-purpose water, in order to preserve the health of the population and ecosystems, foster the socio-economic development of society, and ensure their protection against water-related disasters, such as those resulting from climate change.
Water Europe Expert Groups working on this
- Groundwater & Healthy Soils (opens watereurope.eu)
- Zero Pollution & Health (opens watereurope.eu)
- Water & Agrifood (opens watereurope.eu)
- Desalination (opens watereurope.eu)
- Water Efficiency, Reuse and Circularity (opens watereurope.eu)
Ensuring water infrastructure, management and use that are economically and environmentally sustainable, in a way that meets current ecological, social and economic needs, without compromising the ability to meet these needs in the future.
Water Europe Expert Groups working on this
- Digital Water Systems Management (opens watereurope.eu)
- Resource Recovery (opens watereurope.eu)
- Skills and Human Resources (opens watereurope.eu)
- Water & Finance (opens watereurope.eu)
- International Cooperation (opens watereurope.eu)
Achieving long-term resilience, so that natural and anthropogenic water systems can withstand unexpected disruptive events, averting serious consequences, such as droughts and floods, while guaranteeing the reliability of the water system.
Water Europe Expert Groups working on this
- Green-Grey Infrastructure & Nature-Based Solutions (opens watereurope.eu)
- Water & Biodiversity (opens watereurope.eu)
- Water Distribution Networks (opens watereurope.eu)
- Digital Technologies (opens watereurope.eu)
- Water & Climate (opens watereurope.eu)
Circular water system that minimises water losses, captures and exploits the value in water, and fosters water security, sustainability and resilience.
Incorporate a wide range of water sources and qualities (groundwater and surface water, rainwater, brackish water, brine, grey water, black water, recycled water) into a water-secure, resilient and sustainable water system.
Exploit the benefits of the extreme interconnectivity of people, devices and processes, and create capillary networks capable of monitoring the water system, starting at its multiple sources through to the individual end-user, thus generating continuous flows of valuable data for innovative decision-support systems at different governance levels.
Establish a water system whose governance balances the interests of all stakeholders in its design, management and maintenance.
Create a resilient and reliable hybrid grey and green water system, designed to withstand severe external and internal shocks – such as climate-change induced floods and droughts – without compromising essential functions.
Water Europe in action
Where the vision is tested and shaped, on watereurope.eu
Water-Oriented Living Labs (opens watereurope.eu)
Real places where stakeholders co-create and test water-smart solutions on a local water challenge, supported by the Water4All Partnership.
- Urban
- Rural
- Industry
- Mixed Water
Expert Groups (opens watereurope.eu)
Where Water Europe members shape the research and innovation agenda, in the three clusters of the model above.
- Water Security
- Water Sustainability
- Water Resilience
Governance assessment for circular economy based on water resources
A manual for systematic, qualitative assessment of the conditions, drivers and barriers to CE based on water-smart solutions in different governance contexts
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