As droughts increase over time due to climate change, reusing water from urban waste water treatment plants can become an essential tool to ensure a safe and predictable source of water, whilst lowering the pressure on water bodies and enhancing the EU’s ability to adapt to climate change.

This Session will present the current state of the art in terms of water reuse in Europe. It will be an opportunity to hear the scientific point of view on water reuse with a risk-benefit discussion. The second intervention will focus on the operator perspective and what is happening on the ground. The last intervention will be an opportunity to hear from the manufactures on the new opportunities offered by water reuse. The Session will end with a discussion among all speakers and the audience to exchange ideas and best practices on water reuse.

Meet the speakers: 

- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Drewes, Chair Professor of Urban Water Systems Engineering at the Technical University of Munich (TUM)

- Prof. Uli Paetzel, Chairman of the Executive Board of Emschergenossenschaft and Lippeverband and DWA President

- Hayati Yarkadas, President, Xylem Europe and Water Infrastructure

Moderated by Nora Pankow, M.Sc., Professorship of Sanitary Engineering and Waste Management at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich