Robert Brears
Smart policies to achieve urban water security
Traditionally, urban water managers have relied on large-scale, supply-side infrastructural projects to meet increased demands for water. This supply-side appro…
Smart Water, Smart Metering
Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), or ‘smart meters’, is a two-way solution in which a network is created between the meters and the utility’s Information …
Low-Carbon Water Management
Leading water utilities are decoupling water consumption from energy usage in the pursuit of a low-carbon water future. Abstracting, treating, and conveying dri…
A Blue and Green Future
Locations around the world are turning to Blue-Green Infrastructure solutions that, in addition to restoring the natural environment and enhancing resilience, p…
Waste in, resources out
The traditional economy — our take-make-dispose economy — is challenged by a variety of mega-trends including rapid population and economic growth, rising resou…
Stockholm turning wastewater into resourcewater
In Stockholm, the two sewage treatment plants, Henriksdal and Bromma, serve more than one million people and industries in the city plus surrounding municipalit…
The green building blocks of cities
Many cities around the world are turning to Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) to enhance their resilience to climate change while creating livable spaces for their r…