Assessing SUDs Efficiency to Reduce Urban Runoff Water Contamination
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Due to the current global change, there is a need looking for improved urban water management. Especially in urban areas, where most of the population is concentrated. These high dense areas require improvements on water quantity and quality, and Barcelona city is not an exception.
Barcelona City Council has been studying different water alternatives to achieve the scarcity of the city since 1994. Following these new strategies, groundwater of the city is currently applied for different purposes in the city. Even more, aquifers are strategic water bodies that can be used during scarcity events for water supply ensuring an enough water quality.
In addition, Barcelona City Council installed different green infrastructures called Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDs). These installations reduce the extreme runoff events by promoting and facilitating the recharge of the aquifers. The installation of these systems are increasing, but there is a lack of the knowledge and understanding of the quality of the water infiltrated in the aquifer and their effects on the state of the groundwater bodies of the city, which can reduce the current quality of groundwater.
The main objective of ASSET-WATER is to evaluate the SUDs implemented in the city of Barcelona and provide improvements so that these systems are more efficient and fulfil the purpose of said facilities and advance toward an efficient and sustainable use of water, improving the adaptation capacity of the city to the current Climate Change and promoting the use of green infrastructures in their urban plans.
The results obtained can be easily implemented in other cities with similar behaviour. Main impacts obtained will be: (i) the development of a cluster of SUDs stakeholders who will reinforce the dialogue among different institutions related with the cycle of SUDs systems (from the designing until its implementation in the architecture of the city); (ii) increase economic benefits by the improvement of the SUDs maintenance; (iii) better designs and filters used at SUDs systems will increase the value of this industry; (iv) increase the mitigation of pollutants in the groundwater systems; (v) better understanding of the filtering processes and the behaviour of SUDs together with the subsoil, among others.
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Rotman Criollo Manjarrez
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Rotman Criollo Manjarrez
Marc Teixidó Planes