Source: AIWW 2021 Schedule
In 2021, the Amsterdam International Water Week focuses on their ever-growing community and engage with them through interactive events like sub-thematic webinar series- Water Solutions, community building sessions with target and cross-cutting groups, Global inventory for Blue Green Good Practices and Integrated Solutions leading up to Amsterdam Agreements.
Amsterdam International Water Week 2021 will be a hybrid event with both online and in-person events, considering COVID-19 situations globally. This community-led event for strengthening and equipping the community with good practices and integrated solutions consists of 3 elements which you can find below. An overview of the whole program can be found at 'more information'.
All the recordings of the sessions will soon be included in this collection.
Source: AIWW 2021 Schedule
Long-term degradation of water quality and quantity reduction, lowering ground water levels, concretised water replenishment areas, over-extraction of services, natural processes and cycles have negatively impacted. Different nature-based solutions have proved to be a potential solution for reducing future risks and challenges and contribute to achieve clean water and ecosystem restoration.
Local and decentralised solutions for drinking water production and distribution, wastewater treatment and technological advances in making water bodies, sources and streams swimmable and drinkable, is the current progress with a potential positive impact. Building towards locally resourced and implemented solutions, sharing best practices, lessons learned and resource-use efficiency achieved can further push sectors towards environment-friendly solutions and resilient ecosystems.
Flooding, high sediment load etc. can often damage the water infrastructures and can lead to high repair costs, making the services suffer thereby lowering investments in repair, maintenance and rehabilitation of the system. New innovations and solutions are experimented, implemented and institutionalised; recovery and retrofitting of old infrastructures and can provide short-term solutions.
Waternet is the only water company in the Netherlands that covers the whole water cycle. We provide a safe, clean and sufficient supply of water. This includes water for nature areas and human consumption. These topics are important for everyone. We operate at the very heart of society.
There is no life without water. Clean water is important for our health and our future. That is why Waternet produces the best tap water. We ensure that wastewater and rainwater flow into the sewer system. Then we treat the wastewater, reclaim usable materials and release the treated water back into nature.
We ensure that the surface water is kept at the right levels. We also ensure that our dykes are up to standard. And we keep the canals clean. We are a unique company: we are the only water company in The Netherlands that manages the whole water cycle.
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