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Climate change induced hydrological risks are making central European cities increasingly vulnerable against urban floods and at the same time make the water scarcity problem worse. Coupled with growing drinking water consumption and consequently rising amounts of wastewater to be treated, this threatens the safety of future water supplies.

The City Water Circles - CWC project aims to help municipalities to reform outdated urban water infrastructure systems via applying a circular economy approach, which offers many economic and environmental benefits. The outputs of the project will help European cities to implement water management on their territory.

Model strategies and pilot investments have been developed, and the knowledge base supporting professional and decision-making activities will make the technologies, financial and policy tools that can be applied in cities freely available to all stakeholders.

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MAY THE CWC knowledge BE WITH YOU!

The City Water Circles project was successfully completed in summer 2022. The partnership contributed to the public knowledge with useful and high-quality materials, we succeed to involve stakeholders to the co-creative way of strategy and policy development. The pilot investments contribute to the sustainable water management of the partner cities.

Thanks for collaboration!

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CWC ARCHIVE

Under this box you find the former news of the City Water Circles project.

publications and documents

PUBLICATIONS&DOCUMENTS section is the online library of the City Water Circles project: you can access here researches studies newsletters and edutainment documents on circular urban water use published by the experts of the project team.

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CWC ONLINE HANDBOOK

RESEARCHES & STUDIES
MASTER TRAINING MATERIALS
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CWC PILOT ACTIONS

ZUGLÓ PILOT ACTION

Rainwater harvest and greywater reuse in Zugló

In the frame of the CWC pilot investment, a greywater and rainwater harvesting system is being installed at the Hétszínvirág Kindergarten in Zugló.

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BYDGOSZCZ PILOT ACTION

Rain is profit - Bydgoszcz boasts a rain garden

New green and blue infrastructure was created in Bydgoszcz, a rain garden next to the historic palace of the Waterworks Museum.

Raingarden Bydgoszcz — Photo: MWIK Bydgoszcz

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SPLIT PILOT ACTION

Real time monitoring of water consumption in Split

Real-time water consumption monitoring with wireless tools at three different points in the University of Split, Faculty of Civil engineering, Architecture and Geodesy.

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TURIN PILOT ACTION

Rainwater recovery rooftop garden and aeroponic greenhouse in Turin

"Meet water, meet people, meet plants" The pilot action demonstrates rainwater retention by nature-based solutions.

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MARIBOR PILOT ACTION

Secondary raw material from rain and wastewater in Maribor

The pilot action demonstrates the potential of using treated wastewater and rainwater to produce secondary raw materials (SRM) based construction products.

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Digital Learning Resources

DIGITAL LEARNING RESOURCES

Virtual Study Visit BERLIN

The extra chapter of the Digital Learning Resouces of City Water Circles guides the audience to Berlin, where we get to know several circular utban water management solutions in practice.

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Digital learning resources

SMART WATER GOVERNANCE

Smart Water Governance is the innovative approach to the circular management of water resources.

Active involvement and engagement of the stakeholders and to make a good use of technological tools are core elements in SWG.

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DIGITAL LEARNING RESOURCES

GREY WATER

Greywater is all wastewater that is discharged from a house, excluding blackwater (toilet water).

Can we reuse it? Does it save money for households and institutes? What are technical and hygenic requirements of reuse?

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Digital learning resources

RAINWATER HARVESTING

Harvesting rainwater for saving drinking water has gained enormously in significance as a modern water saving sanitary technique.

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Digital learning resources

WATER LOSS

Water loss occurs in every water distribution system during its overall lifetime and it causes not only additional operating costs but also has negative social and ecological impacts.
In urban areas, up to 70% of distributed water can be lost or never invoiced.

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Digital learning resources

WATER EFFICIENCY

Water efficiency is the reduced use of water possibly in all water consuming activities and sectors without comfort or functionality loss. It leads to significant savings in water and energy and to less wastewater production.

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STATUS QUO OF 5 FUA

The CWC FUAs performed self-assessments about their background conditions related to circular water use. The assessment consists in 44 indicators that provide information, by means of charts, maps or tables.