Water

Track

More than 60 percent of the world’s population is living in coastal and low lying delta areas. The Dutch have more than 400 years of expertise and tradition in the struggle against water. Clean water, flood control, safety & risk water management are essential for the Netherlands. To address the complex challenges related to water IT can be applied in smart technologies and innovative approaches that include 3-D internet and serious gaming.

Water is quickly rising on agendas of leaders worldwide in various sectors: governments, cities, oil & gas industry, energy and water utilities, transport, insurance, and consumer product goods sectors. Integration & harmonization of existing and new IT infrastructures, applications, models, sensors and data is needed to help address the challenges in front of us. One barrier to better management of water resources is simply lack of data - where the water is, where it's going, how much is being used and for what purposes, how much might be saved by doing things differently. In this way, the water problem is largely an information problem. The information we can assemble has a huge bearing on how we cope with a world at peak water.

Read more about the track in the Water position paper.