Case 1: Drought Resilience for Agriculture – Inspiration Guide for wetlands and irrigation restoration

Case owner: Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences – Lectorate Management of Forested Landscapes

Hungary and The Netherlands are water-rich countries with a long-standing history of combatting floods and keeping feet dry. However, both countries are becoming more vulnerable to droughts. The Great Hungarian Plain is facing severe drought challenges and especially agriculture is under pressure. An ‘Inspiration Guide’ should showcase innovative and economic attractive methods of agriculture and technical solutions for wetland and irrigation restauration, and generate more awareness among all stakeholders. How could such an Inspiration Guide contribute to innovative Integrated Water Resource Management Plans, taking into account drought and climate change?

Final Poster

• Team 1: Inspiration Guide – Attention, attention: water retention!

Case 2: Communicating the Value of Water for Next Generations

Case owner: Dutch Wavemakers

Water is all around us, most of it unnoticed to our everyday life. Behind the scenes of the water streaming from the tap, the river carrying its ships, and the rainwater disappearing into the sewage, there is an active network of water managers to ensure clean, sufficient and safe water. Raising awareness about our most precious resource is the first step in ensuring its availability for future generations. Hungary as one of the members of the UN High Level Water Panel would like to contribute to improving the Value of Water. How can we improve communication the ‘Value of Water’ by involving the next generation and inter-connecting generations in Hungary?

Final Poster

• Team 2: WET – Water Education and Training

Case 3: Dreaming the Water Resource and Recovery Facility of 2030

Case owner: Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Both water scarcity and resource limitations are great challenges of the 21st century. Innovations focusing only on treating wastewater and producing high quality drinking water cost-effectively are not enough any more for really ‘sustainable’ water management. Paradigm shift is necessary to transform “wastewater” to “used-water” which may be useful for further use and valorisation, as well as “wastewater treatment” to “water and resource recovery”. This case addresses the design of a future Water Resource and Recovery Facility (WRRF) involving as many important aspects of sustainable water and resource management as possible, i.e. industry, agriculture-irrigation, public transport, smart urban solutions, sludge management, risk assessment (e.g., micropollutants, antibiotic resistance, etc.). How could you imagine an efficient WRRF for 2030?

Final Poster

• Team 3: Decentralized Urban Rainwater Harvesting – Catch if you can