Metropolitan Climate C.A.R.E. Management Challenges
Date(s): Nov 5, 2019 - Nov 6, 2019Time: 8:30 AM - 7:00 PM
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Metropolitan Climate C.A.R.E. Management Challenges
CILE, LIEGE, Nov 05 – 06, 2019
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Purpose
The purpose of the W-SMART 2019 International Workshop on “Metropolitan Water Security, Crisis Management & Disaster Recovery Challenges facing Extreme Events” is to promote experience sharing among city governments, water services, wastewater utilities, research institutions and other metropolitan stakeholders on the growing climate change impacts on water security challenges they currently face, focusing on lessons learned from recent events and assessment of crisis management and post disaster recovery challenges and strategies. It is hosted by the C.I.L.E., the Water Company of Liege, and is co-organized by the W-SMART Association with the collaboration of SIAAP, the Wastewater Treatment Company of the Paris Agglomeration, the North American AMWA and NACWA Associations of Water Agencies and Wastewater Utilities, and the IWA- W2SM Specialists Group on Water Safety & Security Management. This Workshop will precede a UNESCO “Metropolitan Eco-security Colloquium”, which will be hosted by UNESCO at its H.Q. in Paris, on November 7 & 8, which is co-organized in collaboration with the Workshop Steering Committee.
Main Workshop Themes
The workshop will include a Cyber Attack Crisis Management Exercise, and a Post-Exercise panel discussion on crisis management, cyber security and recovery challenges. Focusing on lessons learned from recent events its goal is to promote experience sharing on crisis management and recovery challenges, including corporate preparedness, public education and assessment of current capacity building programs of local governments and metropolitan utilities to face growing climate change impacts and urban water security challenges, including:
- Upgrading crisis management capabilities and preparedness for extreme events, including corporate preparedness, regulatory measures, customer-system interaction, cyber-security challenges, inter-agency coordination, inter-state collaboration, public education, etc.;
- Planning and Implementing urban infrastructure resilience building programs to ensure water service eco-security facing extreme events, river floods, sea-level rise, other eco-risks;
- Monitoring, assessment and forecasting climate change impacts on water and wastewater utilities operational challenges and their adaptation measures for sustaining water service, quality, safety and eco-security;
- Post-Disaster environmental impacts assessment and recovery challenges – lessons learned from recent events – the way forward on local level and regional scale;
- Promoting innovative technology solutions and smart management and control systems to improve eco-resilience capacity building in “smarter” cities, upgrade wastewater treatment process control for water reuse and energy recovery, and address other eco-security issues;
- Upgrading cyber-security to meet new regulatory measures and ISO requirements;
- Improving integration efficiency of renewable and recovered water and energy resourcesfacing water stress situations and challenges of eco-sustainable energy-water-food security;
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Email: ijuran@nyu.edu
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