Resilient Water Innovation for a Smart Economy (REWAISE)

Description

REWAISE will create a new “smart water ecosystem”, integrating an intelligent digital framework for decentralized water services and decision making, involving all relevant stakeholders to embrace the true value of water, reducing freshwater and energy use, and recovering nutrients and materials – resulting in a carbon free, sustainable hydrological cycle, in line with the concept of a resilient circular economy.

REWAISE will extract the value in water promoting its efficient use and reuse, also recovering energy and materials embedded in raw and used water streams. This will be achieved by:
– Reducing freshwater consumption by more than a 30% by making available alternative water sources.
– Achieving a zero-carbon water cycle service and generating value form water nutrients and materials.
– Demonstrating innovative recovery of raw materials, minerals form water desalination and nutrients.

REWAISE will also generate value form water, boosting economic activities and service quality, and creating jobs and business around the water. To achieve so, REWAISE will:
– Engage the community in new economic models, creating recurrent activities and employment.
– Create new market niches and boosting business related to the new technologies.
– Develop a common digital framework to improve decision making by shared criteria.

The project will generate societal well-being and value through water. It will be accomplished by:
– Developing new governance models that favour policy and regulatory changes.
– Increasing sustainability, safety, security, and resilience of water systems, to recover from disruption.
– Demonstrating in 9 living labs across 3 European climate zones a carbon free smart water cycle