News from Birmingham’s Learning Alliance
City Water Introduction Meeting-23rd February 2009
City Water is a new combined knowledge management and decision support system that has been designed to scope the impacts of future integrated urban water management (IUWM) strategies . It can be used to explore a wide range of IUWM options and to work with relatively simple to assemble data sets. It is designed to be usable without a high level of knowledge of the engineering concepts and physical/chemical processes that are represented in the various scoping tools. As such it is not a design tool. It can be used to allow a common understanding within a Learning Alliance of the consequences of different possible actions. Click here for further details.
Stormwater Online Course-February 2009
Online course on Stormwater Management-Free to SWITCH Partners and Learning Alliance Members for details click here.
Workshop on Learning Allainces-Belo Horizonte, Brazil
In November 2008, members of the Birmingham Learning Alliance team, including the Birmigham Research Director and Facilitator attended a workshop on how Learning Alliances can better integrate in to research work, how we can assist in disseminating work and how the Learning Alliances can interact more between cities. Outputs to follow shortly.
Training course-Stormwater management
We are pleased to announce a training event on the 14th October 2008 on “Planning for storm water management in the cities of the future“. This event highlights the benefits of sustainable drainage systems, green and brown roofs and also gives examples of the integration of these systems into developments. The speakers include experts from the UK and Europe. The event will take place at the Arup Campus in Solihull. Click here for further details.
Young SWITCH
We are looking for SWITCH champions to take the SWITCH message into organisations. We would like to invite members of the LA to nominate people within their organisation who are enthusiastic about integrated water management to join Young SWITCH. The activities will be similar to the current LA, but this will allow younger people to meet with others working in the water industry. This will allow them to undertake training, participate in decision making and to understand the needs of the future water industry. For more information, please use the “contact” tab.
News from elsewhere
5th World Water Forum-Istanbul, Turkey
Details from http://www.worldwaterforum5.org/
3rd Annual Scientific Meeting-Brazil, Belo Horizonte
The outcomes of the Scientific Meeting are available at http://switchurbanwater.lboro.ac.uk/news_sci_mtg3.php
Expo 2008-Zaragoza, Spain
In September 2008, members of SWITCH, including the Birmingham Facilitator, visited and presented at the Expo in Zaragoza on Water and Sustainability. For photos click here.
