Resilient Water infrastructures for the city of the future Core points of

Resilient Water infrastructures for the city of the future
Core points of Franco-German collaboration
Messe Berlin, Messegelände, Blue Planet Zone, Halle 6.2b
March 26th 2015, 9:30 to 13:00
Program:
Moderation
Roland A. Müller
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ; Board of the BDZ
9:30
Welcome
Thomas Stratenwerth, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature
Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety
9:40
Inauguration of the symposium; Reflection towards Nancy in 2014
Henri Bégorre, French Water Partnership
9:50
Water infrastructures in urban planning processes: French Perspectives for a
Paradigm change?
Henri Bégorre, French Water Partnership
10:10
Urban Water Infrastructure systems under Transition: Transformation
Management
Jens Libbe, German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu)
10:30
“System architecture” and innovative operation models for the city of tomorrow
Christoph Hug, Tilia GmbH; Member of the BDZ
10:50
Sustainability of water services in French cities
Bernard O. Barraqué, International Centre for Research on the Environment
and Development
11:10
Legal Perspectives for Urban Planning Processes and water infrastructures
Moritz Reese, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
11:30
Coffee break
Moderation
Mi-Yong Lee
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
12:00
Moderated Podium Discussion:
How much small Wastewater Infrastructures does the city of tomorrow need?
13:00
Conclusions
Roland A. Müller
Des infrastructures de l’eau résilientes pour la ville du futur
Les infrastructures de l’eau font partie intégrante du développement urbain, mais leur longue
durée de vie les confronte aux nombreuses évolutions urbanistiques. L’avenir exige ainsi
l’amélioration de l’efficacité des infrastructures de l’eau et le développement de leur flexibilité
au regard des changements climatiques et démographiques. En conséquence, il est non
seulement requis de développer des solutions technologiques, mais également nécessaire
d’y associer des approches économiques, juridiques, sociales et environnementales.
Quatre interrogations relatives à la transformation urbaine, du point de vue des
infrastructures de l’eau, ont été identifiées :
1. Est-il possible d’imaginer un système flexible permettant de développer des
synergies entre systèmes centralisés et décentralisés ?
2. Quels niveaux d’efficacité des ressources seront technologiquement réalistes dans le
futur ?
3. Comment développer un nouveau cadre réglementaire et organisationnel adapté à
l'utilisation de nouvelles technologies?
4. Comment intégrer efficacement une nouvelle planification infrastructurelle à la
conception urbanistique des villes de demain ?
Dans le but d’échanger sur ces questions, nous aimerions vous inviter le 26 Mars 2015.
L’objectif de la réunion est de poursuivre le dialogue Franco-Allemand sur le sujet ainsi que
de discuter de projets concrets à mettre en œuvre dans le domaine des infrastructures de
l’eau résiliente.
Zukunftsfähige Wasserinfrastrukturen für die Stadt der Zukunft
Urbane Wasserinfrastrukturen sind ein integraler Bestandteil einer nachhaltigen
Stadtentwicklung und beeinflussen bereits heute durch lange Betriebszeiten maßgeblich die
Stadtentwicklung. Zukünftig wird an Wasserinfrastrukturen verstärkt der Anspruch gestellt
werden, bei hoher Ressourceneffizienz flexibel mit dem aus Klima- und demographischen
Wandel resultierenden Transformationsdruck umzugehen. Das bedarf eines
Zusammenbringens nicht nur technologischer, sondern auch ökonomischer, rechtlicher
sozialwissenschaftlicher und Umweltschutz-relevanter Standpunkte.
Anlässlich der Konferenz wollen wir vier Bereiche diskutieren, die für den Weg zur
Transformation urbaner Lebensräume in der Perspektive der Wasserinfrastruktursysteme
entscheidend sind.
1. Ist eine Systemarchitektur vorstellbar, in der zukünftig flexibler auf die Synergien
zwischen zentralen und dezentralen Abwassersystemen zurückgegriffen werden
kann?
2. Welche Ressourceneffizienzen sind zukünftig technologisch realistisch?
3. Wie entwickeln wir angepasste regulatorische und organisatorische
Rahmenbedingungen, die den Einsatz neuer Technologien ermöglich?
4. Wie können neue Erkenntnisse der Infrastrukturplanung effizient in die Stadtplanung
eingebracht werden?
Zu diesen Fragestellungen möchten wir Sie am 26 .03.2015 einladen und aus französisch deutscher Perspektive diskutieren. Ziel der Veranstaltung ist die Initiierung eines französischdeutschen Dialoges und nachfolgenden konkreten Projekte zur Umsetzung
zukunftsweisender Wasserinfrastrukturkonzepte.
Short presentation of the speakers (alphabetic order)
Bernard O. Barraqué
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French civil engineer with a city planning master’s degree from Harvard University
and a PhD in urban socio-economic issues from Paris University
Research director in the National Science Centre (emeritus), focusing on water
resources and also public services
His laboratory is CIRED, Centre International de Recherches sur l’Environnement et
le Development, attached to Paris-Tech
He coordinated an important research program on the sustainability of water services
in French cities, with an opening on Europe, the US and Australia
http://eau3e.hypotheses.org.
Member of the IWA specialist group on water efficiency metrics, led by Mary-Ann
Dickinson and a member of the editorial boards of Water Policy, Water Alternatives
and Espaces et Sociétés
Henri Bégorre
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President of the French Water Partnership and Alternate Governor of the Board of
Governor of the World Water Council
With a PHD in physics, he has been very active as a teacher and researcher. He has
also been the Mayor of Maxéville for more than 30 years and still works in the Grand
Nancy Conurbation.
Having dedicated most of his career working on Water and Sanitation access,
especially in Africa, he is actively pushing forward stronger linkages between WaterClimate and Water-Health, and is calling for a stronger synergy between Public
Authorities-NGOs-Universities-Companies.
Jens Libbe
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He holds degrees in socio-economics and economics, and has been a research
fellow and project manager at DIfU since 1991. His work focuses on Urban
Infrastructure Systems and Transition, Services of General Interest, Institutional
Change of Public Services and Governance of Public Utilities, Accompanying
Research and Evaluation.
He has long-standing experience with the development of interdisciplinary research
programs, seminars and conferences also in co-operation with international project
teams, and on program evaluation.
Currently he is project manager of the BMBF-funding measure ‘‘Intelligent and Multifunctional Infrastructural Systems for Sustainable Water Supply and Disposal‘‘ and
member of the German National Platform Future-City agency.
Member of the German Academy for Urban and Regional Spatial Planning
Lectureships and guest lecture at several German and European universities
Christophe Hug
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Since 2009 Managing director (CEO) and Founding shareholder of the Tilia GmbH with
the focus on
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Strategy and implementation services for energy, water, sewage and waste
companies, for industry, cities and regions
Performance increase
Business developments for instance in renewables, energy efficiency (strategy and
implementation), organic growth
Cooperation
From 1996 to 2008 Veolia Environnement
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15 years operation in the field energy/water/sewage
10 years as CEO of Veolia Wasser (subsidiary of Veolia in Germany), responsible for
development and operation of the water/sewage and Stadtwerke activities of the
Group in Germany, Austria
In this 10 years the turnover grows from 20 M€ to 1.400 M€ with an EBIT Margin of
26%
Responsible for more than 60 tenders for long term partnerships (Operation
contracts, BOT, ppp, ...): Berlin waterworks, BVAG, Stadtwerke Görlitz, Midewa,
Sewage of Braunschweig and surroundings, Myllikosky, Gelsenwasser, Stadtwerke
Leipzig etc.
Responsible for operations: 100% realisation of the business-plans for the won
tenders (more than 25)
Begin, development and management of the service activities for industry (paper, oil,
F&B) and consumers
Member of the supervisory boards of Berliner Wasserbetriebe (BWB), MIDEWA,
Stadtwerke Braunschweig (BVAG), Stadtwerke Görlitz, etc.
Branch Office Manager, OEWA GmbH (Veolia Group)
Engineer, Générale des Eaux (Veolia Group)
Dr. Moritz Reese
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Lawyer and researcher at the UFZ, Department Environmental and Planning Law
since May 2008postdoctoral fellow (Habilitant) at the law faculty of the University of
Hamburg
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Editor in chief (designated) of the Journal for European Environmental and Planning
Law (JEEPL, Martinus Nijhoff/Brill-Publishers)
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Co-Editor of the “Zeitschrift für Umweltrecht (German Journal for Environmental Law)”
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Current fields of research: European constitutional law/particularly environmental
competencies, European environmental law, water law, waste law and resources
management law, public environmental services, spatial and urban planning law,
climate change and climate adaptation
Moderation:
Mi-Yong Lee
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Dr. Lee graduated in Economics and earned her Ph.D. in Economics from Heidelberg
University focusing on Political Economy and Institutional Economics.
For two years she contributed as DFG post-doc (German Research Foundation) to
the field of global challenges studies at the University of Tuebingen.
Since 2007 she is a senior scientist at the Helmholtz Center for Environmental
Research – UFZ, Department Environmental and Biotechnology Centre. Her main
research area is water governance.
Since April 2012 she is Head of NICE Office at the Ministry of Water and Irrigation,
Amman, Jordan.
Roland A. Müller
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He is graduated in Environmental Microbiology and got his Ph.D. in Bioprocess
Engineering from the Technical University of Braunschweig. He worked as a senior
scientist in environmental biotechnology with a special research focus decentralized
wastewater treatment and – management since 1994.
Head of Department UBZ -Environmental and Biotechnology Centre at the Helmholtz
Center for Environmental Research – UFZ. His Research Interests are Integrated
water resource management (IWRM), Decentralized sewage treatment and
management of this process, Implementation research on the optimization of the
water sector.
He teaches as Hon.-Professor at Leipzig University of Applied Sciences in the faculty
of civil engineering.
Appointed member of Jordan´s “National Implementation Committee for Effective
Decentralized Wastewater Management”
Assistant Chairman of the board of the BDZ e.V. (Training and Demonstration Centre
for Decentralized Sewage Treatment), Leipzig
Speaker of the International Affairs working group at the BDZ e.V.
Member of the German Water Partnership e.V and the DWA- the German
Association for Water, Wastewater and Waste

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