The chief executive of Bristol Water has warned that climate change will play a key role in the future transformation of the water sector, calling it a “huge threat” to resilience.
Speaking at Utility Week Live in Birmingham, Mel Karam said companies need to ask themselves “How do we respond to massive issues around the resilience of our networks in the face of climate change?”
Birmingham has come ninth in a list of the world’s best cities for sustainable water management – top for the UK – with Rotterdam, Copenhagen and Amsterdam ranking highest globally.
The research carried out by Arcadis and the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) ranked 50 of the world’s top cities by their score against three factors: the resilience of the water system, the efficiency of water use and the quality of its water – with each of the dimensions broken down into a range of sub-indices.
Defra has produced two reports in order to set out a roadmap working towards long-term resilience in the water sector.
The first report sets out how the policy framework will be enhanced during this Parliament to secure the long-term resilience of the water sector in dealing with pressures like climate change and a growing population.
The European Commission is organising a Stakeholder Partnership event on 20 October 2015 to facilitate networking, information exchange and cross-border partnerships of actors interested in addressing urban challenges through innovating with nature or by making innovative use of cultural heritage assets for regenerating cities.
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