BRIEFING PART THREE

Urban water management is challenged by institutional change, new cost structures and new pricing regimes. Large investments are required to maintain the present facilities. This increases the uncertainties impinging on the current management. However, urban water management is quite inflexible because it is tied into a lock-in situation arising from a huge, long-lived and expensive infrastructure.

Regarding the environment, one can expect another source of uncertainty given by a rise in peak demand due to a change in extreme weather events.

It is the task of the Zürich Internet Water Forum to address these challenges and uncertainties and to help establish more secure management solutions for the city's future.

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