goals and strategies for water management at the

GOALS AND STRATEGIES FOR WATER MANAGEMENT AT THE METROPOLITAN LEVELAlberto Altomonte - Responsible for Service for Water ResourcesSector Water resources and mining activities

International meeting

Water and territorial resilience: building the future of Metropolitan Areas

July, 4 2016 - Milan

In mechanics resilience is the capacity of a material to absorb a shock without breaking.

The concept of resilience can be translated to other more complex areas: people, communities, systems, cities and territories.

The resilience of a territory is the capability to absorb sudden and stressful events, adapting and restoring their functional mechanisms.

2


The Metropolitan City is the new expression of a territory and represents an intermediate level of dialogue and action.

It collects the requests of the community, public and private bodies that operate on the territory, in order to:

• understand the opportunities for economic innovation and development,

• develop guidelines and governance models,• support local projects.

The goal is to improve the area through new models of governance and territorial policies aimed at implementing an appropriate and consistent regulatory framework able to be up to date with the needs and the times (principle of Digital first).

3


The protection and the valorisation of the environment

The future of the metropolitan area

Environmental compartments

Land

AirWaste

Energy Water

We switch from a l i n e a r l o g i c t o a systemic logic, with in t h e c e n t e r t h e environmental media/issues

4


The Area of Environmental protection and valorization of the Metropolitan City of Milan is reorganizing following the regulations that indicate more and more clearly the need for an organization based on the complexity of environmental media, which goes beyond individual specific authorizations.

There is an increasing number of authorizations that need advice resulting from more environmental media and by different parties and institutions.

Examples of this are the A.I.A. – Integrated Environmental Authorisation and the A.U.A. – Single Environmental Authorisation

The competencies of the Metropolitan City in the environmental field are primarily authorization procedures.

5


The Area of Environmental protection and valorization has promoted +COMMUNITY: a program for administrative simplification which gathers public, private and non-profit entities operating on sustainability, usability of environmental resources and equity in the distribution of environmental goods.

+COMMUNITY is a free and open grouping, so far composed of:

• ATO Città metropolitana di Milano,

• CAP Holding,

• ARPA Lombardia,

• Camera di Commercio di Milano,

• Ordine degli Avvocati di Milano,

• ENEA - Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l’energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile

• Fondazione Triulza. 6


+COMMUNITY plays a paradigmatic change in switching from conservation to protection, from a zoom to a wide angle view, from nostalgia to the future with an eye to the economy and development, representing a new way to apply the rule that must be clearer, more transparent and easier for everyone.

The technological renovation process, the production of quality products and the equitable distribution of benefits require an eclectic and diversified partnership, but with a reliable governance firmly oriented to renovation.

7


What is +COMMUNITY doing?

• simplifying and dematerializing

• updating the skills

• communicating

Online management platform

Open paths about environmental issues

Transparency of ongoing activities

8


+COMMUNITY in numbers

Training courses:23 courses planned from October 2015 to December 2016to date 12 courses held, with 1,780 trainees

Since February 16, 2016 a new online platform is operational managing most of the environmental processes.

2 meeting 7 newsletter (since January 2016)

Contacts about 2,000 persons (mayors, administrators, course attendees) about 4,000 companies 9


+COMMUNITY

Development of tools and project design criteria to support the

dissemination of resilience practices

Guidelines and models of

governance

Improvement of policies and

regulatory frameworks

New needs

10


Project design criteria to support the dissemination of resilience practices

geothermal use of groundwater

groundwater levels

use of drinking water

Projects

water cycle

Shifting from an energy model based on fossil fuels to

one based on renewable energy

Water responsible management

11


In Lombardy open circuit geothermal heat pumps had a strong increase in recent years, in terms of authorized units and total installed heat capacity.

Geothermal use of groundwater

12


The working table set up by the Lombardy Region aims to define a technical and administrative path as certain and simplified as possible to secure the release of the authorizations of competence of the Metropolitan City.

Data of the provinces of Lombardy

13


SondrioLecco

ComoVaresePavia

Monza e Brianza

Mantova

Città metropolitana Milano

LodiCremona

Brescia

Bergamo

Geothermal plants using open circuit

v.a. %

Città met. Milano 515 48,7%

Mantova 38 3,6%

Monza e Brianza 42 4,0%

Pavia 34 3,2%

Varese 40 3,8%

Como 60 5,7%

Lecco 21 2,0%

Sondrio 68 6,4%

Bergamo 119 11,3%

Brescia 82 7,8%

Cremona 22 2,1%

Lodi 16 1,5%

TOTALE 1.057

Water cycle Landscape and environmental master plan of the Seveso Valley

The project is shared by Gruppo CAP and CAP Brianzacque Company which, together with the Lombardy Region and the Metropolitan City, will lead to the drafting of a master plan.

It’s a strategic project of exploitation of the territorial resources connected to the Green Infrastructure European strategy.

It will enable a unitary vision of the Valley of the Seveso, which may constitute a framework on the long term and promote a perspective of the future development of the territory based on the protection and valorization of local natural and cultural resources.

In fact, it is characterized as a strategic project to:• systematize hydraulic defence works,• defining of actions for sustainable urban drainage,• improving landscape integration and valorizing the existing

territorial resources.14


Groundwater levels working table set up at the City of Milan

The working table is attended by the Managing Bodies, Universities and Local Authorities, coordinated by the Politecnico di Milano (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering) and is engaged in the monitoring of groundwater and the elaboration of proposals for controlling the phenomenon.

Activities:

• assess the interaction between groundwater and underground structures,• test the existing database for a possible integration, functional to update

mathematical models,• check the existing monitoring networks of groundwater levels,• identify alternative drainage points for the water.

At the conclusion of the project some information sessions and workshops will be organized to disseminate the findings and raise awareness among stakeholders and bodies involved in the planning and the implementation of interventions.

15


Use of drinking water Project "Let's kick to the waste! First groundwater wells for green areas "

The Metropolitan City of Milan joins the CAP Holding and the municipalities in the implementation of the upper aquifer wells for green areas, with the aim of allowing municipalities to avoid the use of drinking water for the maintenance of green areas.

The project aims at: • avoiding the use of drinking water where it is not necessary,• giving a contribute to active protection of underground water resources,• increasing the availability of drinking water for human consumption,• reducing costs for the community.

The Metropolitan City of Milan is committed in supporting this initiative with a specific administrative procedure. To date over 40 wells in as many municipalities have been made.

16


goals and strategies for water management at the

Documents