Urban Water Management: Case Studies Berlin and Emscher region

Presentation: Speech
Date: 4 May 2006
Location: Milan, Italy
Speech: Nadine Herbke

The Università Luigi Bocconi organised a conference on behalf of the Milan municipality to analyse Milan's wastewater treatment system as regards sustainability issues, organisational models and future challenges. The conference took place on 4 May 2006. Researchers from around Europe presented five case studies on European experience with wastewater management in urban areas. Ecologic Fellow Nadine Herbke presented the results of the Berlin and Emscher case studies.

Further case studies analysed the answers of Paris, Birmingham and Porto to the challenges of urban wastewater management. A restricted number of high ranking stakeholders from the private, public and environmental NGO sectors took part in the conference and integrated the results of the case studies in their discussion of the challenges faced by Milan with regard to the EU Water Framework Directive.

Nadine Herbke's presentations are available for download:

Urban Water Management – Case Study I: Berlin [pdf, 385 KB, English]
Urban Water Management – Case Study II: Emscher Region [pdf, 438 KB, English]

The presentation was part of the project "Evaluation of Sustainability of Sewerage Systems in Metropolitan Areas – European Case Studies".

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Project

This project aimed at realising a comparative evaluation of the development of urban wastewater systems against the background of the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). This evaluation was based on five case studies undertaken as part of the project and discussed at an international conference in Milan on 4 May 2006. An expected result was to gain knowledge on the technological, economic, management and institutional consequences arising from a shift from an approach dominated by point-source emission standards to one focusing on the good ecological standards of water bodies. Ecologic undertook two of the case studies, one being on the Emscher Region and one on Berlin.

Evaluation of Sustainability of Sewerage Systems in Metropolitan Areas: Emscher and Berlin Case Studies

Feb - May 2006