Interbasin connections
Interbasin connection to offer redundancies for water supply
- Category: Structural / Engineered and built environment
- Application Scale: River Basin
- Sector: Water
- Target: Adaptation
Introduce rock armour in rivers to add erosion protection against flood defence assets
Natural flood management techniques. The rocks take the brunt of the river flow saving the condition of the flood defence structure (for example a retaining wall) preventing wear and tear and reducing the need for replacement or remediation works over time.
- Category: Structural / Ecosystem-based
- Application Scale: River Basin
- Sector: Water / Social / Health / Environment
- Target: Adaptation
Isolated operation of renewable energy microgrids
The oportunity of supplying homes off-grid will be posible by the microgrid concept which includes the integration of renewable energies at home/buildings/communitites, batteries and regulable loads. Sometimes, it requires interaction with the consumers by sending them consumption recommendations.
- Category: Structural / Technological
- Application Scale: City
- Sector: Telecom / Social / Power / Energy / Environment
- Target: Adaptation
Join city networks
Take part in city networks to foster the exchange of good practices and collaborate with benchmark international institutions
- Category: Non-structural / Government policies and programs
- Application Scale: City
- Sector: Water / Mobility / Telecom / Social / Power / Waste / Health / Energy / Environment / Emergency
- Target: Adaptation
Join European projects to improve local climate change assessment
Learn more about how climate change will affect the city through European projects such as RESCCUE (2020)
- Category: Non-structural / Informational
- Application Scale: City
- Sector: Water / Mobility / Telecom / Social / Power / Waste / Health / Energy / Environment / Emergency
- Target: Adaptation
Keep sufficient space in the soil and subsoil to allow for the necessary climate services
Keep sufficient space in the soil and subsoil to allow for the necessary climate services (greater water infi ltration, better quality soil to allow plants to grow properly, etc.)
- Category: Structural / Ecosystem-based
- Application Scale: City
- Sector: Water / Mobility / Telecom / Social / Power / Waste / Health / Energy / Environment / Emergency
- Target: Adaptation
Learn from real-life flooding by recording and investigating events
Collate records of historic flood events
- Category: Non-structural / Laws and regulations
- Application Scale: City
- Sector: Water / Mobility / Social / Health / Environment / Emergency
- Target: Adaptation
Level up or relocate electrical substations near coastal and river areas
Placing electrical transformer centers near coasts and rivers on a higher platform or relocating these substations near rivers and coasts more inland.
- Category: Non-structural / Government policies and programs
- Application Scale: River Basin
- Sector: Energy
- Target: Adaptation
Locally promote productive roofs and walls
Offer technical advice on productive roofs and walls at the energy advice points, housing offices and other existing services
- Category: Non-structural / Educational
- Application Scale: City
- Sector: Water / Social / Health / Environment
- Target: Adaptation
Locate and characterise the areas at risk
Locate and characterise the areas at risk (of extreme heat, flooding, power cuts, availability of water, etc.)
- Category: Non-structural / Educational
- Application Scale: City
- Sector: Water / Mobility / Telecom / Social / Power / Waste / Health / Energy / Environment / Emergency
- Target: Adaptation
Maintenance of hydraulic structures of the storm drainage system
Set up regulations on maintenance of the hydraulic structures and drainage network infrastructures so that their maximum conveyance capacity will be unlimited.
- Category: Non-structural / Laws and regulations
- Application Scale: City
- Sector: Water / Environment
- Target: Adaptation
Maintenance of pumping systems
Periodic inspection and maintenance of pumping systems
- Category: Structural / Engineered and built environment
- Application Scale: City
- Sector: Water
- Target: Adaptation
Meshed operation of the distribution grid
The structure of the distribution grid can be both radial or meshed. The operation of the distribution grid, though, is only radial. The implementation of a meshed grid facilitates the recovery from a hazardous event.
- Category: Structural / Engineered and built environment
- Application Scale: City
- Sector: Telecom / Power / Health / Energy / Emergency
- Target: Adaptation
Minimization of residence time of water in the distribution network
Minimizing the time the water remains in the supply system to reduce water quality degradation, while in the system especially after treatment
- Category: Structural / Technological
- Application Scale: City
- Sector: Water / Social / Health
- Target: Adaptation
Monitoring drinking water and groundwater quality
Assess and continually monitor the quality of drinking water and groundwater to see if it is affected by climate impacts such as drought periods or heavy rain
- Category: Structural / Technological
- Application Scale: River Basin
- Sector: Water / Health / Environment
- Target: Adaptation
Monitoring of drainage system
Implement permanent monitoring program, including rain gauges and hydraulic and quality monitoring equipment on main drainage system infrastructures, with direct communication of data to centralised system
- Category: Structural / Technological
- Application Scale: City
- Sector: Water
- Target: Adaptation
Municipal reclaimed water for industrial use and aquifer recharge
Utilise regenerated water from the River Llobregat for the industrial uses of the Zona Franca Consortium and for recharging the aquifer
- Category: Structural / Engineered and built environment
- Application Scale: City
- Sector: Water
- Target: Adaptation
Naturalise the coast
Naturalise the coast
- Category: Structural / Ecosystem-based
- Application Scale: City
- Sector: Environment
- Target: Adaptation
On-source sediment traps
Location of sediment traps at the main and biggest entrances of rural catchment run-off into the sewer network in order to avoid or reduce the volume of sediments getting into the sewer system
- Category: Structural / Engineered and built environment
- Application Scale: River Basin
- Sector: Water
- Target: Adaptation
Optimize desalinization plant
Optimize desalinization plant, in which production is at minimum cost and impact using advanced treatment processes and technologies
- Category: Structural / Technological
- Application Scale: River Basin
- Sector: Water
- Target: Adaptation