To resolve upcoming shortages in clean drinking water, Waternomics will explore technologies and methodologies needed to successfully reduce water consumption from households, companies and municipalities. Waternomics is a three year, EU-funded project that started in February 2014 and will evaluate its results in three real life experiments in Italy, Greece and Poland.

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Project co-funded by the European
Commission within the 7th Framework
Program (Grant Agreement No. 619660)
ICT FOR WATER RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT

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THE WATER CHALLENGE
• Global energy and water demand is expected to rise
40% over the next 20 years
• By 2025, 1.8 billion people will live in water scarce
regions and two thirds subjected to water stress
• 20-40% of Europe’s water is being wasted
• Water supply and sanitation is a large energy
consumer.
– Represents 19% of electricity and 30% of natural gas
consumption in California
• Europe has the opportunity to pursue a global
leadership position in water-related ICT technologies

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Concrete Objectives
• To introduce demand response and accountability principles
(water footprint) in the water sector
• To engage consumers in new interactive and personalized ways
that bring water efficiency to the forefront and leads to changes in
water behaviours
• To empower corporate decision makers and municipal area
managers with a water information platform together with
relevant tools and methodologies to enact ICT-enabled water
management programs
• To promote ICT enabled water awareness using airports and
water utilities as pilot examples
• To make possible new water pricing options and policy actions by
combining water availability and consumption data
WATERNOMICS will provide personalised and actionable
information on water consumption and water availability to
individual households, companies and cities in an intuitive &
effective manner at relevant time-scales for decision making

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Key facts about Waternomics
▶ Type of project: Collaborative project
▶ Project start date: February 2014
▶ Duration: 36 months
▶ Call: FP7-ICT-2013-11
▶ Effort: 416 PM
▶ Budget: €4.287M
▶ Max EC contribution: €2.905M
▶ Grant No.: 619660
▶ Consortium: 10 partners
▶ Countries: 5
▶ SMEs: 4
▶ Pilots: 3

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CONSORTIUM OVERVIEW
Knowledge
providers
Water
ICT
products
Pilot
&
demonstra:on
Business
models
and
exploita:on
Dissemina:on
Market
uptake

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PROJECT STRUCTURE

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WATERNOMICS PLATFORM ARCHITECTURE
Support
Services
SourcesApplications
Water Analysis
Model
Complex Events
Usage Model Water Dashboards
Entity
Management
Service
Decision Support
Systems
LinkedWater
Data
Data
Catalog
Complex Event
Processing
Engine
Prediction Search &
Query
Adapter Adapter Adapter Adapter Adapter
▶ Water Management Apps
▶ Water Data Analysis and
Prediction
▶ Semantic Sensor
Networks and Complex
Event Processing to aid
Decision Making
▶ Linking of data from
different Water
Management Sustems
using Linked Data / RDF

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PILOT OVERVIEW
# Focus Location Intent Partner
1
Water utility for
domestic users
(Thermi)
To demonstrate, validate, and assess the
WATERNOMICS Platform for domestic
water users
2
Water
Management
Cycle in an
airport
(Milan Linate)
To demonstrate, validate, and assess the
WATERNOMICS methodology and
hardware innovations, and software/
analysis results via the deployment of
WATERNOMICS ICT
3
Water
distribution in a
Municipality
(Sochaczew)
To validate and showcase the
WATERNOMICS Platform at a municipal
level (i.e. mixed use consumers supplied
by a water utility)

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STAKEHOLDERS AND IMPACT AREAS

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FURTHER DETAILS
www.waternomics.eu
info@waternomics.eu