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September 27, 2017

Urban Water Chains and Systems

This set contains 4 short videos on urban water chains and systems. Water is a basic, universal need. In this set of materials, you will learn what an urban water chain and urban water system contain. The urban water chain refers to drinking water provision and sanitation, along with necessary infrastructure. The urban water system expands upon the water chain to include five types of urban water: surface water, groundwater, drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater. Within an urban water chain and system, stakeholders manage and modify the water cycle, giving opportunity for citizens to co-create a safe and healthy living environment. Furthermore, you can learn about how politicians and stakeholders can think about long-term decision making and governance within usually short election cycles. These videos and materials will give you a baseline understanding of how sustainable solutions to water-related problems are co-created with citizens. These concepts can be applied to specific case studies and various local contexts around the world. Finally, you can apply this knowledge in a role-playing game where you attempt to set up a drinking water management system and decide between whether to organize the drink water supply as a public or private entity.

Claudia Rot, Martine Rutten

September 21, 2017

Introduction to Urban Water System

This video focuses on the “Urban Water System”. Let’s hear from Prof. Huub Rijnaarts, who will introduce you to the Urban Water System.

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Huub Rijnaarts

February 1, 2021

Quantifying the Performance of Resilience Increasing Measures: Workshop introduction

This resource contains a workshop about quantifying the performance of resilience increasing measures and 3 exercises (Excel) to reflect on shocks and stresses. These exercises focus on Climate, Water and Urban Areas. Students will be asked to reflect on shock and stresses, the (initial and cascading) impact from different perspectives and measures to mitigate the negative consequences (again by looking at many different variables).

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Karina Vink

October 16, 2017

Introduction to the Urban Water System in China

In this module, Dr. Haifeng Jia discusses what challenges and urban water management solutions exist in Chinese Cities. LEARNING OBJECTIVE: Explain shocks and stresses on critical services and infrastructures (CSIs) of STE systems resulting from a range of disastrous events. DURATION: 1 short video (~ 6 min long)

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Haifeng Jia

April 30, 2025

PFAS – Persistent Micropollutants in the Water Cycle

This report presents the final course material that was developed for the online learning module on persistent micropollutants – PFAS. The document can be used as a stand-alone manual to fully individually follow the entire course, from week to week. It includes the links to the video materials that were developed for the course within the project, fully integrated within the reading material. The course forms a bridge between scientists and professionals working in the water cycle. So far, the information on PFAS has been available in a scattered manner, making it difficult for non-experts to get a complete introductory overview. This course was designed to compile information on PFAS through the water cycle, from production to use and final treatment. The course is built up in an intuitive way: it starts with a general introduction on the origin, chemistry and nomenclature of PFAS; national standards and reported concentrations in the urban water cycle are presented; analytics are explained; the course concludes with technologies for separation and final destruction of PFAS. Each chapter (or week) contains written textbook material, videos and additional reading material. Development of the course has been a co-production between PROMISCES and TU Delft, as TU Delft has an extensive educational support system including a professional recording studio and an expert learning assessment system for engineering education. All materials including videos are freely available for the general public. If the learner wants the full experience of having virtual classmates, get access to all exercises and receive a certificate and credit points after successful completion of the course, one can register at online-learning.tudelft.nl. The course was developed by two environmental engineers with a professional educational background (Mariska Ronteltap and Kim Lompe). The educational videos include knowledge clips (recorded lectures in a studio), videos in laboratories, interviews with PROMISCES project partners and videos on location. To be able to follow the course a basic understanding of chemistry is required; other than that, the course is fully understandable for non-experts. Collaboration between TU Delft, Delfland Water Authority, and the EU Project PROMISCES.

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Kim Maren Lompe, Mariska Ronteltap

September 21, 2017

Urban Resilience in Delta Regions

This video focuses on the “Urban Water System”. Let’s hear from Prof. Huub Rijnaarts, who will introduce you to the Urban Water System.

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Huub Rijnaarts

September 27, 2017

Introduction to the Water Chain

Dr. Ellen van Bueren defines “Urban Water Chain” and provides an overview of what it entails, including infrastructure, collection, and treatment of wastewater.

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Ellen van Bueren

September 5, 2021

Water Management & Sponge City Governance

This set contains three short videos on urban water management and Sponge City governance in Chinese cities. i. Introduction to the Urban Water System in China (~ 6-min long video) ii. Sponge City in China (~ 8-min long video) iii. Implementation, Governance, and Co-creation of Sponge City in China (~ 9-min long video)

Various Experts

August 19, 2021

Kampala: Co-creating water resilience through circular water management and stakeholder participation

HOW TO NAVIGATE THIS CASE STUDY: First, please refer to the Teacher's Guide using the yellow "View Materials" button on the left pane. The teacher's guide outlines the purpose, contents, approach, case structure, and technical information of this case study. This case study was curated from other independently published open educational resources and from existing materials on this platform. These resources are also organized by domain. At the bottom of each resource's page, you can see both the city case study and SURF Resilience domain to which it belongs. Click on the case study or the domain name to navigate to the case study homepage or SURF Resilience collection, respectively. OVERVIEW: This case study contains a teaching guide, one theme titled 'Co-creation of Sustainable Cities,' seven short videos, and a gaming simulation. To get a better understanding of the co-creation structure in Kampala within the first theme, you can follow a number of lectures on stakeholder dynamics and how to analyze them, and what entails an effective stakeholder participation. Then, you will also see how sustainable cooking practices are helping to reduce air pollution in informal settlements. Finish the case study by playing the Invest in the Future game to experiment with designing urban areas for better climate change resilience.

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Eunice Koid, Claudia Rot, Martine Rutten

August 30, 2021

Water Management & Climate Change

This set contains 7 learning materials related to water management and climate change in Amsterdam. i. The Effect of Climate Change on Water Resources (~ 5 min-long video) ii. Urban Water Chains and Systems (4 short videos; <15 min each) iii. Managing the Water System in Amsterdam (~6 min-long video) iv. Water Management Challenges in Amsterdam (~6 min-long video) v. Amsterdam Rainproof: Water Management (~8 min-long video) vi. Urban Citizens Addressing Climate Change (~7 min-long video) vii. Flood Resilience (45 min lecture with accompanying slides and exercise questions) viii. How to achieve effective water protection policies (~10 min-long video) ix. Climate-responsive Planning and Design course (semester-long 6 ECTS course on the fundamentals of climate, climate change, and climate adaptation and mitigation in urban areas)

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