Masterclass 2: Nitrous oxide – monitoring, modelling and mitigation

This  masterclass series organised by the IWA Climate Smart Utilities Initiative.  The goal of the Initiative is to assist water, wastewater, and urban drainage companies in improving their climate resilience by adapting to a changing climate while contributing to significant and sustainable reduction of GHG emissions.

During this class, international experts in the field will present existing and recent approaches to quantify, monitor and mitigate N2O emissions. The class will bring participants up to speed with process emissions of nitrous oxide and methane from wastewater treatment – through presentations of key findings from a newly launched IWA publication and by sharing the experiences of progressive utilities around the world.

Masterclass 3- “Monitoring, Modelling and Mitigating Methane in Wastewater

This  masterclass series is organised by the IWA Climate Smart Utilities Initiative.  The goal of the Initiative is to assist water, wastewater, and urban drainage companies in improving their climate resilience by adapting to a changing climate while contributing to significant and sustainable reduction of GHG emissions.

During this class, international experts in the field presented existing and recent approaches to quantify, monitor and mitigate methane emissions. The class brought participants up to speed with process emissions of methane from wastewater treatment – through presentations of key findings from a newly launched IWA publication and by sharing the experiences of progressive utilities around the world. This class was hosted and presented by editors and co-authors of the IWA publication “Quantifying and modelling of fugitive greenhouse gas emissions from urban water systems” along with special guest utility experience from Anette Wästlund, Sjöstad WWTP Karlstad.

ECAM – Introduction

ECAM empowers water and wastewater utility operators to assess their greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption.

  • Perfect for climate reporting needs
  • Overview of system-wide greenhouse gas emissions
  • IPCC-2019 compliant and open source

ECAM Tool 2021 – Spanish Version

¿Qué pueden hacer las empresas de agua y saneamiento para combatir el cambio climático? ¡Reducir las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero!

Para empezar, es necesario realizar una evaluación que abarque todo el ciclo urbano del agua. ¡Esta es ECAM!

ECAM Tool 2021 – English Version

What can water and wastewater utilities do about climate change? Cut greenhouse gas emissions!

Actions start with an assessment that spans the urban water cycle. This is ECAM! Watch this video and learn more about this tool!

WaCCliM – Water and Wastewater Companies for Climate Mitigation (Project Video)

Water and wastewater companies are typically energy intensive. This indicates excellent opportunities for improving energy efficiency and greatly reducing greenhouse gas emissions through more energy-efficient systems, as well as recovering energy, nutrients and other materials from wastewater.

The ‘Water and Wastewater Companies for Climate Mitigation’ (WaCCliM) project shows how the urban water sector can reduce its own greenhouse gas emissions while preparing for climate change. WaCCliM engages with the international water and climate community, with national governments and with water and wastewater utilities as well as their associations in Jordan, Mexico and Peru. Together with its national and local partners, WaCCliM is improving the carbon balance of utilities in these countries and beyond. At the same time, the project aims to ensure that utilities increase their climate resilience, reduce their operational costs, and maintain, improve and adapt their services.

Interpreting climate information for water utilities (webinar on demand)

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:
• Identify what climate information and data is relevant and can be used in your planning and operations.
• Interpret and integrate climate information and data in your utility’s management of water resources and water supply.
• Use climate information to improve your water safety planning implementation and development process by including climate related hazards and risks in your risk assessment of the water supply system from catchment to tap.
• Contribute to the resilience of your water utility.

Managing climate risks: The tale of two water utilities (webinar on demand)

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:
• Learn about best practices utilities are applying to build resilience to climate change hazards and risks.
• Apply a process to identify resilience strategies.
• Draw from the experiences presented to assist the development of plans to respond to their climate hazards and risks

Climate resilient water safety planning (webinar on demand)

Learning Objectives

The participants will be able to:
• Understand how integrating climate information into water safety planning will help better identify and assess climate hazards and risks to your water supply system.
• Learn how the tools and guidance produced by WHO and IWA can support in identifying and addressing climate hazards and risks and contribute to the resilience of your water utility.

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