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Business Potential of Water
Smart City Solutions
Tim van Hattum, Wageningen University & Research
May 23rd Global Urban Futures Conference, Oslo
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Mission Wageningen University & Resesarch
To explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life
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Water is essential for life in cities
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One in four world’s largest
cities already water stressed
Cape Town’s drought
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Increased demand for water, food and
energy
Source: WWF
• Domestic water use will double
• Industrial water use +400% increase
• Agriculture > 70% water use +20-40% increase
Climate change will increase the risk for floods,
droughts and heat waves
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Floods Droughts
Heat waves
We have to change the way we think about
water delay, store, drain
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Delay Store Drain
Water Smart Cities: a system approach to restore natural
resiliency combined with smart technology
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Guided principles
• We need to understand symbiosis between city and the surrounding landscape
• Large scale Nature Based Solutions in cities combined with grey solutions
• Close the urban water cycle with smart water technologies: reduce, re-use and recycle
Water Smart City Solutions
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No-tech NBS
Low-tech NBS
High-tech NBS & Smart Water-tech
No-tech NBS
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The value of trees: 2 billion € The Hague
Low-tech NBS
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High-tech NBS
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Transition towards nature inclusive and water
smart cities creates business opportunities
Huge market opportunities for smart
watertech > 20 billion US by 2020
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Source: Global Opportunities Report 2017
Living Labs – Proof of concept
• Invest in pilots / living labs
• Cooperate government, business, knowledge institutes, citizens
• Collect data and create evidence base
• Upscaling
To explore the potential
of nature to improve the
quality of life
Tim van Hattum
Program Leader Green Climate Solutions
Wageningen Environmental Research
www.wur.eu/greenclimatesolutions20