Urban Water Management
Hydropolis will identify, analyze, model and test decentralized water management technologies and solutions, such as grey water recycling, rainwater harvesting, sustainable urban drainage systems, and their combined application is going to be analyzed in conjunction with urban growth and existing water infrastructure.
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Urban Development and Social Aspects
Hydropolis will examine impact of these alternative strategies and technologies on social, economic and environmental criteria and indicators. This is expected to drastically decrease the vulnerability of urban areas to water scarcity – an issue of central environmental and socio-economic concern.
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Modeling, Simulation and Pilot testing
Hydropolis will develop a new framework of modeling tools to simulate urban development scenarios, thus providing decentralized and distributed solutions, that are going to be tested in existing urban areas, as well as in the design of hypothetical new urban developments.
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