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About the Webinar
Long periods of drought can create water supply crises, affecting citizens’ lives extensively. Traditional water supply solutions based on centralized single-source water systems have been proven ineffective in a country like Brazil, where the problem has recurrently impacted more than 48% of its municipalities. Thus, current public supply systems must be restructured by accommodating various modern concepts of water source diversification. In this presentation, we will first summarize the reasons for the water crises identified by a profound reflection conducted by the SACRE+SPRINT Projects (São Paulo Research Foundation’s five-year-grant proc. 2022/00652-7) that involve the participation of multiple universities in Japan, Canada, and Brazil. Then, we propose a hybrid hydro-economic approach as a solution to reduce water vulnerability, based on (i) water resource allocation and conjunctive surface and groundwater use, (ii) low-cost groundwater treatment (reactive barriers and phytoremediation), (iii) managed aquifer recharge (MAR), (iv) riverbank filtration systems, as well as (v) socio-economic analysis on the water resources management policies, including the payment for water services of the various components of the hydrological cycle.
About the Speakers
Guest Speaker: Prof. Ricardo Hirata is a Full Professor at the University of São Paulo (USP), Director at CEPAS|USP (Groundwater Research Center) in Brazil, visiting Professor at Chang’an University (China), and International Water Association (IWA) Groundwater Group member. He is a Geologist with an MSc and DSc (USP) and a Post Doctorate (University of Waterloo, Canada) in hydrogeology and water resource management. Hirata also was a member of the Groundwater Management Advisory Team of The World Bank (GW-MATE), adviser for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and UNESCO, and visiting professor at the universities of Costa Rica and Calgary (Canada). He also served as a hydrogeologist for World/Pan American Health Organization and has more than 39-year experience working intensively in more than 30 countries in groundwater contamination and development and water resource protection management and governance.
Discussant: Prof. Shin-Ichi Onodera is a Professor at Hiroshima University.
Негізгі бет Ойын-сауық Integrated Water Solutions for Cities Resilient to Global Climate Change
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