Workshop about water system integration
A workshop about a new collaboration area between Lund University and Imperial College London has been held in September 2024. Behind the Water Systems Integration Workshop (WSIW-2024) was the LTH Profile Area Water (LTH Water) together with the Division of Water Resources Engineering at Lund University.
– Published 30 September 2024
The workshop was designed and led by the early career researchers Hasan Hosseini and Barnaby Dobson. This is based on their achieved “Get Started Funding”, a program launched by Lund University to support early career research collaboration links between Lund University and the UK-based LERU universities.
The workshop aligned well with the vision of LTH Water: “water issues are complex and must be solved sustainably with holistic understanding”. It also provided an engaging platform to discover the similarities between the vision of the profile area, Lund University and the research team from the Imperial College in London.
The team from Imperial College London were represented by Ana Mijic, who introduced the Water Systems Integration approach as a keynote speech, and Barnaby Dobson and Leyang Liu, who presented the #WSIMOD framework and the resilience aspects. From Lund University, there were two keynote speeches by Magnus Persson, the Head of the division of Water Reources Engineering and Kenneth M Persson, coordinator of LTH Water. There were also six team-project presentations on different aspects of water management from agricultural water quality and scarcity issues to urban stormwater, and wastewater management.
Among others, the two significant Horizon Europe projects FARMWISE and WATERAGRI were discussed by the coordinators Ronny Berndtsson and Rolf Larsson. The other contributions by researchers fromLund University are listed below:
- Multi-disciplinary high-resolution precipitation data needs, challenges, and opportunities by Hasan Hosseini.
- Removal of organic micropollutants and reuse of treated wastewater by Michael Cimbritz and Åsa Davidsson.
- Groundwater resources digitalization using remote sensing data and artificial intelligence by Hossein Hashemi.
- Integrated Hydrogeological and Geophysical Investigations for Optimized Groundwater Management in Skåne by Ankita Prayag.
- Introducing two Water4All (EU) projects: SmartWater4Future and TWIN-Waters by Linus Zhang.
Based on a set of group discussions for potential integrations, rivers were found to be the most important link through which almost all the above projects can be integrated.
For general questions regarding collaboration and future plans, please contact the Lund University researchers Johanna Sörensen (stormwater and urban flood), Hasan Hosseini (remote sensing), Hossein Hashemi (groundwater), Amir Naghibi (agriculture water), Jing Li (rivers and lakes), or Barnaby Dobson at Imperial College London.