Descripción del proyecto
Infraestructuras hídricas sostenibles y equitativas para el futuro
La población y las ciudades del planeta continúan creciendo, lo que requiere nuevas infraestructuras hídricas bien planificadas. En el proyecto Water-Futures, financiado con fondos europeos, se concebirá un nuevo marco teórico para las decisiones de asignación y desarrollo de sistemas de infraestructura de agua potable que sean socialmente equitativos, rentables y cumplan los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible de la Agenda 2030 de las Naciones Unidas. El marco integrará la supervisión y control en tiempo real con la solidez y la flexibilidad a largo plazo e incorporará cuestiones ambientales, económicas, éticas y sociales para la transición sostenible de los sistemas hídricos urbanos. Los socios del proyecto incluirán aspectos de la ciencia del agua, la teoría de sistemas y control, y la economía y la ciencia de decisiones, así como metodologías de aprendizaje automático, para crear una caja de herramientas de investigación de código abierto. Los resultados se aplicarán a tres estudios de caso que representan diferentes tipos de sistemas hídricos urbanos.
Objetivo
The world population living in urban settlements is expected to increase to 70% of 9.7 billion by 2050. Historically, as cities grew, new water infrastructures followed as needed. However, these developments had less to do with real planning than with reacting to crisis situations and urgent needs, due to the inability of urban water planners to consider long-term, deeply uncertain and ambiguous factors affecting urban development and water demand. These, coupled with increasingly uncertain climate conditions, indicate the need for a more holistic and intelligent decision-making framework for managing water infrastructures in the cities of the future.
This project aims to develop a new theoretical framework for the allocation and development decisions on drinking water infrastructure systems, so that they are socially equitable, economically efficient and environmentally resilient, as advocated by the UN Agenda 2030, Sustainable Development Goals. The framework will integrate real-time monitoring and control with long-term robustness and flexibility-based pathway methods, and incorporate economic, social, ethical and environmental considerations for sustainable transitioning of urban water systems under deep uncertainty with multiple possible futures.
The Water-Futures team will build on synergies from the four research groups, transcending methodologies from water science, systems and control theory, economics and decision science, and machine learning, into an integrated decision and control framework, to be implemented as an open-source research toolbox. The new science outcomes will be applied to three case studies exemplifying different types of urban water systems: a mature, relatively stable system; a mature and rapidly expanding system; and a relatively recent supply system in a developing country with high growth and special challenges, including limited resources, intermittent supply and high water losses.
Ámbito científico
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwater treatment processesdrinking water treatment processes
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomics
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencemachine learning
- engineering and technologycivil engineeringstructural engineeringhydraulic engineering
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Régimen de financiación
ERC-SyG - Synergy grantInstitución de acogida
1678 Nicosia
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