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Professor of Urban WaterUniversity of Sheffield

Visiting ResearcherFlood Resilience GroupUNESCO IHEResearcherUniversity of Bradford

It is not only about flood risk management

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IUWM TWCM HOLISTIC WATER MANAGEMENT IS A NO-

BRAINER

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Vulnerability of WaterSupply from Catchment

RunoffSource: CSIRO (2006)

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OTHER TYPES OF PROBLEM

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Significant driver changes can now beexpected in the lifetime ofinfrastructure for flood protection andurban drainage

This undermines stationary hydrologyassumption historic data cannot helpmuch in making probabilisticprojections of the future (Milly et al)

Carrying on more research cannotsignificantly reduce uncertainty

When the new defences in NO arefinished they will already be unable todeliver the expected performance

Do you still believe you can predict an hydrologicalevent?

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RESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY?

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Water - From supplies, basic sanitation, flood risk to now

Brown, Keath and Wong (2009) Wat. Sci. & Tech. 59:5, 847-8557

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IF WE ACCEPT THE VISION OF A WATER

SENSITIVE CITY WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS?

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NOT ONLY ABOUT WATER

City layouts andservices

The dynamic city In Europe there is a

much greater need to

retrofit our existing

property stocks than

worry too much about

new developments

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ROTTERDAM HEAT ISLAND EFFECTS

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WSUD, LID AND GI

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WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENCES?

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WHAT CAN WE LEARN?

Dutch multi-level safety and making way for theriver

The city in the water and water in the city

Protect live with plan to escape (build adaptivecapacity) DO ALL OF THESE

Australian coping with water stress and leadingthe way in building Institutional capacity

MatenessDoing more with less multi-value and multi-

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