INTEGRATED URBAN WATER MANAGEMENT IN BERLIN WITH ...

• Climate change
Expected changes
– Increase in waste water share due to less summer precipitation
– Extreme weather events leading to combined sewer overflows
– Rising temperatures shifting redox zonation
• Legislation:
– Quality standards for trace organic substances requiring higher
efforts for waste water treatment
• Impact of upstream mining activities
– Flooding of abandoned open-pit mines
– Decreased discharge of the Spree river
– Increased sulfate loads
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