Eawag Seminar Series Spring Semester 2022 | Smart Water Futures: Decision Making under Ambiguity

On 31st March Prof. Phoebe Koundouri gave an invited presentation in the Eawag Seminar Series (Spring Semester 2022) organized by the Eawag –  Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology.

The title of her presentation was on  “Smart Water Futures: Decision making under ambiguity” and she presented the new European Research Council Synergy Grant on “Smart Water Futures: Designing the Next Generation of Urban Drinking Water Systems” | acronym: WaterFutures

Prof. Koundouri highlighted:

“World’s cities are expanding. Some 70% of people will live in urban areas by 2050. This growth brings with itself one big challenge: water. New water infrastructures went historically hand in hand with urban development. However, in the past, changes happened often because cities needed to react to crises and immediate needs – not as a result of real planning. Urban water planners were unable to take into account short-term and long-term, deeply uncertain and ambiguous factors affecting urban development and water demand. These factors, together with increasingly uncertain climate conditions, have increased the need for a more holistic and intelligent decision-making framework for managing water infrastructures in the cities of the future. The central focus of this seminar is to study decision-making under uncertainty”.

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