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Copenhagen transitioning towards urban water security
Copenhagen's transition towards urban water security focuses on reducing leakage, protecting the city's groundwater sources and changing behaviour to reduce wasteful consumption. This chapter presents an overview of a case study that analyses how Copenhagen's water utility uses a portfolio of demand management tools to modify the attitudes and behaviour of water users to achieve urban water security. HOFOR is the largest utility in Denmark providing 20 percent of the Danish population with water supply, wastewater management and other services. HOFOR provides drinking water sourced from groundwater abstracted in the large area of Zealand. In Copenhagen, the city council's water supply plan is developed by the Centre for Environment, a department of the Technical and Environment Administration, in collaboration with HOFOR. The drivers of HOFOR's strategic vision for achieving urban water security include variations in the availability of good quality water of sufficient quantity as well as the political dimensions of importing water.
Copenhagen transitioning towards urban water security
Copenhagen's transition towards urban water security focuses on reducing leakage, protecting the city's groundwater sources and changing behaviour to reduce wasteful consumption. This chapter presents an overview of a case study that analyses how Copenhagen's water utility uses a portfolio of demand management tools to modify the attitudes and behaviour of water users to achieve urban water security. HOFOR is the largest utility in Denmark providing 20 percent of the Danish population with water supply, wastewater management and other services. HOFOR provides drinking water sourced from groundwater abstracted in the large area of Zealand. In Copenhagen, the city council's water supply plan is developed by the Centre for Environment, a department of the Technical and Environment Administration, in collaboration with HOFOR. The drivers of HOFOR's strategic vision for achieving urban water security include variations in the availability of good quality water of sufficient quantity as well as the political dimensions of importing water.
Copenhagen transitioning towards urban water security
Brears, Robert C. (author)
Urban Water Security ; 165-179
2016-11-08
15 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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