Green infrastructure for improved water cleaning and water supply following conflict

We can offer significant experience in enhancing green infrastructure to improve its water cleaning performance.  Our work thus far has included work on Glasgow City’s Avenues program, a £115M program to bring green infrastructure for water management into the city.

Following conflict, restoration of water supply is critical.  We are keen to explore how green infrastructure, such a raingardens and detention basins, can be designed to enhance water cleaning, enabling the treated water to be used as a valuable resource.   We are keen to explore how local wastes and damaged infrastructure materials can be repurposed and used for water filtration.  We can examine which of these materials are best suited to drive the key geochemical and microbiological processes that are responsible for water cleaning.    Moreover, we hypothesise these materials, including converted bio-wastes, can be selected to support better microbial community structures and syntrophic relationships that are vital for water cleaning.  In this way the green infrastructure is viewed as advanced tuneable biotechnology.   This work would be supported by next generation genomics, advanced bioinformatics and detailed water analysis.

We are keen to work with other to explore how green infrastructure can be optimized for supplying water post-conflict and furthermore, return biodiversity to the area.