Urban water communities
VITO and DuCoop invite you to join the third Community of Practice (CoP) 'Urban water communities'. This interactive and learning network offers a valuable opportunity to actively exchange knowledge and practical experience on urban water. The CoP is part of the Interreg North Sea Region project 'ANCHOR'.
Participate in the third CoP
Water is becoming increasingly scarce and valuable, also in an urban context. During this Community of Practice, you will gain insight into how the City of Antwerp is making its water future-proof through the Water Plan, the Drought Plan and initiatives on circular water use.
Be inspired by concrete practical examples, such as the reuse of water at the Posthof Bridge, and discover how road water is treated and reused in the Wolvenberg nature reserve. Aquafin will share the first results from a year of measurements, after which we will visit the site together to experience this innovative approach up close.
Programme
09:30 – Ontvangst
10:00 – Toelichting en interactie Waterplan – Lien Engels (Stad Antwerpen)
10:30 – Toelichting en interactie Droogteplan en Circulair Water – Tim Vermeiren (Stad Antwerpen)
11:00 – Toelichting Waterhergebruik aan de Posthofbrug – Tom Vinck (Stad Antwerpen)
11:15 – Interactieve sessie Water in stedelijke omgeving - Interreg NSR ANCHOR
12:00 – Lunch
12:30 – Verplaatsing van ’t PAKT naar Wolvenberg
13:00 – Toelichting en bezoek Wolvenberg – Dirk Harden (AG Vespa)
13:15 – Toelichting Resultaten waterkwaliteit – Neil Vandenbroek (Aquafin)
14:00 – Einde
Why be part of the CoP 'Urban Water Communities'?
- Actively contribute to solutions to shared challenges in developing urban water communities
- Learn from innovative case studies both within the ANCHOR project and beyond
- Network with other experts and stakeholders of residential areas of the future
- Get concrete tools to organise, finance and implement urban water projects
What is the ANCHOR project about?
The CoP 'Urban water communities' is within the Interreg North Sea Region project 'ANCHOR'. Through a European demonstration network, ANCHOR explores how to roll out residential communities of the future. The Belgian demo is De Nieuwe Dokken site in Ghent.
The same challenges often crop up in such innovation projects; stumbling blocks that often greatly delay project realisations or even eventually cause them to plummet. Those issues can be divided into 4 groups:
- ORGANISATION - How do you organise the project? Who takes what responsibility? How do you involve stakeholders in the right way?
- FINANCING - How do you finance the project? When is a business case feasible?
- TECHNOLOGY - What technological barriers or uncertainties do we encounter?
- LEGISLATION - How do you reconcile innovative projects with current legislation?
The purpose of the CoP
The CoP network aims to address these recurring challenges by actively reflecting and sharing knowledge from practical cases. In this way, we can take steps forward to make it easier to roll out similar water projects. The ANCHOR project mainly takes a closer look at decentralised treatment in an urban context and recovery and reuse of valuable raw materials from domestic wastewater.
In the CoP network, we want to broaden that view further and also highlight projects around collective rainwater use or grey water.