TRansitions to the Urban Water Services of Tomorrow (TRUST) at a glance: Over the course of four years and driven by the need of transformation and the wish to protect natural resources, 30 partners in eleven different countries will research innovations and tools to create a more sustainable, low-carbon water future. The results will be implemented and tested in nine participating different pilot cities or regions, grouped in green cities, water scarcity regions and urban/peri-urban metropolitan areas. As a result there will be a course of action for more sustainable and green urban water cycle systems. TRUST is an integrated project, funded by the European Commission

Work Area 1 contributes to the overall objective of TRUST by performing an initial assessment of the urban water situation in Europe, going also beyond the TRUST pilot regions. It will suggest a solution-oriented planning approach that will ask four key questions: Where are utilities now? Where do they want to be? How might the utilities get there? How does it ensure success? The planning towards sustainable urban water cycle services (UWCS) should be realised as a road mapping process, ...

Our principal ambition in Work Area 2 is to support the development and assessment of adaptive potential in the governance and socio-economic regimes which shape urban water provision. Existing physical and institutional infrastructures are, by their very nature, conservative and resist change. A step change is urgently required in the capacity...