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Urban development imposes an increased pressure on existing urban water infrastructure (water supply, wastewater, stormwater), while at the same time existing infrastructure and its expandability represents a critical factor for urban development. Increasing urban water demand, and increasing requirements for levels of service, coupled with uncertain water availability (incl. the potentially increasing occurrence of droughts) leads to water scarcity situations - especially in the Southern EU and Mediterranean countries. This mismatch between supply and demand is usually met with increasingly sophisticated and energy consuming, mostly centralized, infrastructures and often requires the transport of water from remote catchments, with potentially severe disruption to local ecosystems... Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) studies, undertaken at the EU level, including the ClimWaterAdapt project currently undertaken by DG Environment, suggest that in view of key drivers, such as..

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