International water - project details
EU SWITCH - Demand Management Training in Alexandria, Egypt
Projects completed in 2007
The International Demand Management Framework
Projects completed in 2005
Water Resource Management and Planning Study for the Salalah Region in the Sultanate of Oman
Handbook for managers of decentralised wastewater systems
EU SWITCH - Demand Management Training in Alexandria, Egypt
Loughborough University
This EU-SWITCH funded project aims to build critically needed knowledge in urban demand management internationally. The project will provide training in demand management in Alexandria, Egypt, a demonstration city of the larger EU-SWITCH project. The training will be carried out by the Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) in collaboration with the Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC), Loughborough University, UK, who are leading the demand management theme of the EU-SWITCH project. The training aims to promote the use of demand management as essential cost-effective alternatives to supply-side planning. Increasing water scarcity means that over the coming years the capacity to undertake appropriate economic analysis and deliver successful demand management programs that conserve water will be essential to securing urban water supply. The training materials developed for Alexandria will be adapted for other demonstration cities and used more widely through other EU-funded training activities and also for planned on-going actions of the International Water Association (IWA) International Demand Management Framework (IDMF) project.
Projects completed in 2007
The International Demand Management Framework
Canal de Isabel II
The International Demand Management Framework (IDMF) is being co-ordinated by the International Water Association (IWA) Specialist Group - Efficient Operation & Management under Task Force No. 7. The Task Force Leaders are Francisco Cubillo from Canal de Isabel II (the Madrid water utility) and Professor Stuart White of the Institute for Sustainable Futures. The staged IDMF study will ultimately form a step by step guide to demand management in the context of urban water planning for developed, emerging and developing countries alike. Stage 1 of the IDMF has focused on: a preliminary literature review, development of an urban water planning framework and setting criteria for best practice aspects of the framework and demand management. It has also tested the framework and criteria developed by using Canal de Isabel II as a benchmarking case study. Additional stages of the IDMF are currently in progress.
Projects completed in 2005
Water Resource Management and Planning Study for the Salalah Region in the Sultanate of Oman
Aquaterra International Ltd
ISF undertook the water demand forecasting, water efficiency options development, economic analysis and policy/strategy development aspects of this study, which was carried out for the MRMEWR in the Sultanate of Oman. The study considered not only the urban, sector but also industrial and agricultural sectors in the region. The aim of the study was to determine a suite of options that could be implemented in the region that could be used to provide water services to the rapidly growing population but also reduce the saline intrusion on the groundwater resource currently being impacted by over abstraction. The study found that the suite of water efficiency options developed provided a water services solution that was low cost and highly socially and environmentally beneficial and should be implemented in preference to major supply options such as desalination.
Handbook for managers of decentralised wastewater systems
Stone Environmental Inc
With Stone Environmental Inc. and the Rocky Mountains Institute in the USA, ISF developed a comprehensive handbook for managers of decentralised wastewater systems. Decentralised systems are increasingly accepted as viable (and more sustainable) long-term alternatives to centralised systems and this was the first attempt to develop the tools needed to manage decentralised systems for the long-term. Two workshops were held in 2004, in Washington and in Seattle to gain input from stakeholders from across the United States. The handbook was launched in 2005.
