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Turning water challenges into water-smart solutions
Europe is facing growing pressures on water:
- Climate change
- Water scarcity
- Pollution
- Ageing infrastructure
- Competition for resources
But every challenge also creates an opportunity.
Across Europe, innovators, utilities, cities, industries, researchers, investors and policymakers are developing solutions that can transform the way we value, use, reuse and manage water. The Water Europe Marketplace brings these worlds together: water challenges meet innovative solutions, knowledge becomes action, and promising ideas find the partners, projects and opportunities needed to scale.
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Problem owners, solution providers, investors and researchers.
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Calls for solutions and Living Labs that test ideas in real life.
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Scale
Partners, projects and visibility to take solutions further.
Together, we can build a Water-Smart Society and Economy.
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Find partnersOur 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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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
Where Water Europe members shape the research and innovation agenda, in the clusters of the model above.
- Water Security
- Water Sustainability
- Water Resilience
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Living Labs: where solutions meet the real world
Water-Oriented Living Labs are real places where government, industry, academia and civil society co-create, test and validate water-smart solutions on a local water challenge. Explore them on the map.
The Quadruple Helix
Every Living Lab brings four groups of actors together:
To be included in the Atlas, a lab must show:
- a connection to its territory and a local water challenge,
- the involvement of all four groups,
- stable governance and a long-term strategy,
- the demonstration of innovation.
Source: Atlas of Water-Oriented Living Labs 2026, © Water4All Partnership. Positions on the map are approximate.
In their own words
Voices from the Living Labs
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Through our Living Lab, we transform climate challenges into opportunities. By embedding nature into everyday urban practice, we strengthen resilience, empower citizens and demonstrate how cities can grow in harmony with water.
Alexandra Winderickx and Patrick PrincenCity of Mechelen
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Drought periods and flooding are increasingly important challenges for many agricultural regions. Sponge landscapes are an ideal nature-based solution for that. We can only achieve this by a positive collaboration between all rural stakeholders.
Jan VanvelkDemer River Basin Coordinator (VMM)
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Trust between stakeholders is key when establishing a WOLL and takes time to build up together in cooperations where seed money is leveraged to win-win-wins for all the partners.
Inge Genné and Karen VanderstraetenVITO
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Water Valley Denmark connects utilities, companies and knowledge institutions to move water innovation from idea to full-scale implementation and global impact.
Jackie Van Tran Foged and Pia JacobsenWater Valley Denmark
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Agriculture with arctic attitude. Successful and sustainable agricultural water management in the future utilizes catchment scale approach and modern technological solutions.
Maarit LiimatainenSenior Scientist, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
Water Management Innovation, Ruukki, Finland -
Decentralized nature-based solutions can transform wastewater into a resource, supporting resilient agriculture and water security in island regions while reducing energy use and environmental impact.
Statiris EvangelosResearcher, Sanitary Engineering Laboratory, NTUA
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We unlock the value of industrial wastewater, we create new value chains and we build new symbiotic systems, around the circular usage of water.
Dimitris IossifidisCo-founder and CEO
VesperX, Nafplio, Eastern Peloponnese, Greece -
There is a unique bond between the King of Alpine rivers and the local communities. Let's build a vision to keep the Tagliamento “as pristine as it gets”.
Anna ScainiResearcher, Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University
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Irrigation is indispensable to provide food and achieve the Zero hunger target of the 2030 UN Agenda without cropping new lands: better irrigation, less deforestation.
Vittoria GianniniAssociate Professor in Agronomy and Field Crops, University of Padua
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Water reuse can help reduce pressure on strategic freshwater resources, support the transition to increased water security, and manage water-related risks through strong, long-lasting partnerships between researchers, technology developers and users.
Rita Lourinho, Margarida Castro Martins and Maria João RosaAdTA, Municipality of Lisbon and LNEC
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Axarquía's Living Lab shows that co-creating water reuse solutions with local actors transforms mistrust into trust, driving sustainable agriculture and resilience in one of Spain's most water-scarce regions.
Antonia Lorenzo and Rafael CasiellesBIOAZUL
Axarquía Living Lab, Algarrobo, Málaga, Spain -
Our purpose is to facilitate the connection between Q-helix stakeholders and especially between end-users and solution providers to promote the development of innovative and resilient solutions and facilitate their market uptake.
Marisa FernándezCluster Manager
ZINNAE, Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain
Quotes from the Atlas of Water-Oriented Living Labs 2026 (PDF, opens watereurope.eu), © Water4All Partnership.
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