Urban Stormwater: from risk to resource (2024-2025)

This project will analyse and forecast the potential of system change related to making use of the untapped resources in urban stormwater, including the water itself, energy and sediments that accumulate in the urban drainage network.

This important societal challenge will help to ensure water resilient communities, prosperous lakes and watercourses, access to water and wise use of water for the future. The proposed collaboration includes a multidisciplinary research team (fluid mechanics, urban water engineering, entrepreneurship and innovation, environmental law, political science and human work science) with expertise in all five system dimensions, as well as:

• owners of public needs (municipal water departments)
• public enablers (water authorities and municipal environmental departments)
• industrial solution owners (power company and sediment-removal service provider).

The project will carry out a series of open workshops to develop a vision, carry out system analysis and forecast future scenarios with a goal of suggesting activities necessary to bring about this system change and new innovative solutions.

Staff from LTU:

• Maria Viklander
• Lian Lundy
• Kelsey Flanagan
• Sabine Mayer
• Staffan Lundström
• Maria Pettersson
• Carina Lundmark
• Joel Lööw
• Wiebke Reim