Water security: too much, too little, too dirty

The global population faces significant water security threats related to: water supply, water pollution, wastewater removal, sanitation and associated ill health and the socio-economic impacts of droughts and floods.

Nowhere are these issues more acute than urban spaces and developing world contexts where radical new visions for water infrastructure and ways to cope with extreme events are required for a growing population.

Water Infrastructure

• Birmingham receives £21.7 million to build National Buried Infrastructure Facility
• Making the underworld visible
• Draining the cities of the future

Water, floods and business

• Summer After the Floods

Water quality and health

• Birmingham water experts develop device to save lives
• Reducing operating costs of wastewater treatment using fluorescence spectroscopy
• 100 plastic rivers - a global investigation
• Birmingham Water Council: Water Challenges in a Changing World

Dams and economics

• Climate Change, Hydro-Dependency and the African Dam Boom

Flood management

• Going with the flow; adaptation and resilience in flood risk management
• Flooding, dredging and the here and now of environmental controversies