GOALS AND STRATEGIES FOR WATER MANAGEMENT AT THE METROPOLITAN LEVEL

Alberto Altomonte - Responsible for Service for Water Resources Sector Water resources and mining activities

International meeting Water and territorial resilience: building the future of Metropolitan Areas July, 4 2016 - In mechanics resilience is the capacity of a material to absorb a shock without breaking.

The concept of resilience can be translated to other more complex areas: people, communities, systems, cities and territories.

The resilience of a territory is the capability to absorb sudden and stressful events, adapting and restoring their functional mechanisms.

2 Water and territorial resilience: building the future of Metropolitan Areas The Metropolitan City is the new expression of a territory and represents an intermediate level of dialogue and action.

It collects the requests of the community, public and private bodies that operate on the territory, in order to:

• understand the opportunities for economic innovation and development, • develop guidelines and governance models, • support local projects.

The goal is to improve the area through new models of governance and territorial policies aimed at implementing an appropriate and consistent regulatory framework able to be up to date with the needs and the times (principle of Digital first).

3 Water and territorial resilience: building the future of Metropolitan Areas The future of the metropolitan area

The protection and the valorisation of the environment

Land Air We switch from a Waste l i n e a r l o g i c t o a Environmental systemic logic, with in compartments t h e c e n t e r t h e environmental media/ Energy Water issues

4 Water and territorial resilience: building the future of Metropolitan Areas The competencies of the Metropolitan City in the environmental field are primarily authorization procedures.

There is an increasing number of authorizations that need advice resulting from more environmental media and by different parties and institutions.

The Area of Environmental protection and valorization of the Metropolitan City of Milan is reorganizing following the regulations that indicate more and more clearly the need for an organization based on the complexity of environmental media, which goes beyond individual specific authorizations.

Examples of this are the A.I.A. – Integrated Environmental Authorisation and the A.U.A. – Single Environmental Authorisation 5 Water and territorial resilience: building the future of Metropolitan Areas The Area of Environmental protection and valorization has promoted +COMMUNITY: a program for administrative simplification which gathers public, private and non-profit entities operating on sustainability, usability of environmental resources and equity in the distribution of environmental goods.

+COMMUNITY is a free and open grouping, so far composed of: • ATO Città metropolitana di Milano, • CAP Holding, • ARPA Lombardia, • Camera di Commercio di Milano, • Ordine degli Avvocati di Milano, • ENEA - Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l’energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile

• Fondazione Triulza. 6 Water and territorial resilience: building the future of Metropolitan Areas +COMMUNITY plays a paradigmatic change in switching from conservation to protection, from a zoom to a wide angle view, from nostalgia to the future with an eye to the economy and development, representing a new way to apply the rule that must be clearer, more transparent and easier for everyone.

The technological renovation process, the production of quality products and the equitable distribution of benefits require an eclectic and diversified partnership, but with a reliable governance firmly oriented to renovation.

7 Water and territorial resilience: building the future of Metropolitan Areas What is +COMMUNITY doing?

Online management platform

• simplifying and dematerializing • updating the skills Open paths about environmental issues • communicating

Transparency of ongoing activities

8 Water and territorial resilience: building the future of Metropolitan Areas +COMMUNITY in numbers Training courses: 23 courses planned from October 2015 to December 2016 to date 12 courses held, with 1,780 trainees

Since February 16, 2016 a new online platform is operational managing most of the environmental processes.

2 meeting 7 newsletter (since January 2016)

Contacts about 2,000 persons (mayors, administrators, course attendees)

about 4,000 companies 9 Water and territorial resilience: building the future of Metropolitan Areas Development of tools and project design criteria to support the Guidelines and dissemination of resilience models of practices governance

+COMMUNITY

Improvement New needs of policies and regulatory frameworks

10 Water and territorial resilience: building the future of Metropolitan Areas Project design criteria to support the dissemination of resilience practices Projects

Shifting from an energy geothermal use of model based on fossil fuels to groundwater one based on renewable energy

water cycle

Water responsible groundwater levels management use of drinking water 11 Water and territorial resilience: building the future of Metropolitan Areas Geothermal use of groundwater

In open circuit geothermal heat pumps had a strong increase in recent years, in terms of authorized units and total installed heat capacity.

The working table set up by the Lombardy Region aims to define a technical and administrative path as certain and simplified as possible to secure the release of the authorizations of competence of the Metropolitan City.

12 Water and territorial resilience: building the future of Metropolitan Areas Data of the provinces of Lombardy Geothermal plants using open circuit

% v.a. Lecco Varese Como Città met. Milano 515 48,7% Pavia Sondrio Mantova 3,6% 38 Monza e Bergamo Monza e Brianza 42 4,0% Pavia 34 3,2% Mantova Varese 40 3,8% Como 60 5,7% Brescia Lecco 21 2,0% Sondrio 68 6,4% Cremona Bergamo 119 11,3% Lodi Brescia 82 7,8% Cremona 22 2,1% Lodi 16 1,5% Città metropolitana Milano TOTALE 1.057

13 Water and territorial resilience: building the future of Metropolitan Areas Water cycle Landscape and environmental master plan of the Valley

The project is shared by Gruppo CAP and CAP Brianzacque Company which, together with the Lombardy Region and the Metropolitan City, will lead to the drafting of a master plan. It’s a strategic project of exploitation of the territorial resources connected to the Green Infrastructure European strategy. It will enable a unitary vision of the Valley of the Seveso, which may constitute a framework on the long term and promote a perspective of the future development of the territory based on the protection and valorization of local natural and cultural resources.

In fact, it is characterized as a strategic project to: • systematize hydraulic defence works, • defining of actions for sustainable urban drainage, • improving landscape integration and valorizing the existing territorial resources. 14 Water and territorial resilience: building the future of Metropolitan Areas Groundwater levels working table set up at the City of Milan

The working table is attended by the Managing Bodies, Universities and Local Authorities, coordinated by the Politecnico di Milano (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering) and is engaged in the monitoring of groundwater and the elaboration of proposals for controlling the phenomenon. Activities: • assess the interaction between groundwater and underground structures, • test the existing database for a possible integration, functional to update mathematical models, • check the existing monitoring networks of groundwater levels, • identify alternative drainage points for the water.

At the conclusion of the project some information sessions and workshops will be organized to disseminate the findings and raise awareness among stakeholders and bodies involved in the planning and the implementation of interventions. 15 Water and territorial resilience: building the future of Metropolitan Areas Use of drinking water Project "Let's kick to the waste! First groundwater wells for green areas "

The Metropolitan City of Milan joins the CAP Holding and the municipalities in the implementation of the upper aquifer wells for green areas, with the aim of allowing municipalities to avoid the use of drinking water for the maintenance of green areas.

The project aims at: • avoiding the use of drinking water where it is not necessary, • giving a contribute to active protection of underground water resources, • increasing the availability of drinking water for human consumption, • reducing costs for the community.

The Metropolitan City of Milan is committed in supporting this initiative with a specific administrative procedure. To date over 40 wells in as many municipalities have been made.

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