Transforming water management to deliver a just transition to a net zero water future

The presentation will provide an overview of the Hydro Nation Chair programme, it’s design and delivery. The focus will be on the digital revolution and the opportunity to drive a new paradigm of understanding of water and wastewater, enable smart solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and find within catchment solutions for water and wastewater management, and resource recovery. This presentation will chart the development of the Forth Environmental Resilience Array (Forth-ERA), a digital observatory operating at the catchment scale. Forth-ERA brings together data from state-of-the-art capability that we have been developing over the last decade along with next generation sensors and satellites to deliver new, rich and highlight heterogeneous data streams. These data streams are being combined with AI and process-based modelling that collectively offer the potential to transform our understanding of the management and impact of hydroclimatic extremes, the complex mixture of pollutant cocktails impacting on our environment and opportunities for climate adaptation.

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