Water Resources and Urban Planning: Meeting in Cologne

From the 6th to the 8th of December 2022, StEB, the Municipal Drainage Operator of the City of Cologne (Germany), hosted the peer learning event on “The Role of Rain and Storm Water Management in Water Sensitive Urban Planning”, organized by Connective Cities and United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG).

During two and a half days, Cologne became the venue for the exchange of knowledge on rain and storm water management between experts from more than eight German cities -such as Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Hagen, the Ahrtal region, etc.-, as well as cities from the rest of the world, including Dnipro (Ukraine), Banjul (The Gambia), Mwanza (Tanzania), Kigali (Rwanda), Zarqa (Jordan) and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).

The topics discussed were technical, such as how Nature-based Solutions can help achieve real "sponge cities"; financial, such as how to access funding for flood prevention systems; and social, such as how to encourage citizen participation in the management and prevention of stormwater disasters, among many others. The event also included peer consultation and development of future project activities that generate solutions to achieve water sensitive urban planning in a number of cities participating in the event.

Both organizations, Connective Cities and UCLG will continue to support the municipal practitioners in the development of their common projects, and promote cooperation through learning programmes, virtual project workshops up to mutual project consulting.

The source: https://www.uclg.org/en

The photo: Roman Bürki on Unsplash

13.12.2022

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