Objective
The European project initiative TRUST will produce knowledge and guidance to support TRansitions to Urban Water Services of Tomorrow, enabling communities to achieve sustainable, low-carbon water futures without compromising service quality. We deliver this ambition through close collaboration with problem owners in ten participating pilot city regions under changing and challenging conditions in Europe and Africa. Our work provides research driven innovations in governance, modelling concepts, technologies, decision support tools, and novel approaches to integrated water, energy, and infrastructure asset management. An extended understanding of the performance of contemporary urban water services will allow detailed exploration of transition pathways. Urban water cycle analysis will include use of an innovative systems metabolism model, derivation of key performance indicators, risk assessment, as well as broad stakeholder involvement and an analysis of public perceptions and governance modes. A number of emerging technologies in water supply, waste and storm water treatment and disposal, in water demand management and in the exploitation of alternative water sources will be analysed in terms of their cost-effectiveness, performance, safety and sustainability. Cross-cutting issues include innovations in urban asset management and water-energy nexus strengthening. The most promising interventions will be demonstrated and legitimised in the urban water systems of the ten participating pilot city regions. TRUST outcomes will be incorporated into planning guidelines and decision support tools, will be subject to life-cycle assessment, and be shaped by regulatory considerations as well as potential environmental, economic and social impacts. Outputs from the project will catalyse transformatory change in both the form and management of urban water services and give utilities increased confidence to specify innovative solutions to a range of pressing challenges.
Fields of science
Programme(s)
Call for proposal
FP7-ENV-2010
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Funding Scheme
CP-IP - Large-scale integrating projectCoordinator
45476 Mulheim An Der Ruhr
Germany
Participants (32)
3433 PE Nieuwegein
1700-066 Lisboa
7491 Trondheim
5210 Windisch
46022 Valencia
Participation ended
B15 2TT Birmingham
MK43 0AL Cranfield - Bedfordshire
EX4 4QJ Exeter
7034 Trondheim
40126 Bologna
1049 001 Lisboa
157 80 Athina
75116 Paris
E14 2BE London
15366 Hoppegarten
9253 Tromso
OX10 8BA Wallingford
2829 516 Caparica
52066 Aachen
1200 168 Lisboa
Participation ended
38820 Halberstadt
28003 Madrid
KY11 8GG Dunfermline
1118 ZG Luchthaven Schiphol
15057 Tortona Al
Participation ended
16122 Genova
0037 Oslo
020528 Bucuresti
1700 421 Lisboa
20539 Hamburg
1096 AC Amsterdam
28003 Madrid