Online Seminar: Towards Higher Adaptive Capacity in Urban Water Management
Come and join us at the RAINMAN project’s closing event!
Climate change increases precipitation and urbanisation results in more sealed surfaces. This leads to increasing storm water volumes and can cause sewage system overloads and urban flooding. Nutrients and hazardous substances can also contaminate freshwater resources if storm water is not treated properly. In addition, these changes can affect groundwater recharge and quality.
The RAINMAN project has developed tools and recommendations to avoid sewage system overloads, to prevent urban flooding and to preserve freshwater resources. The project has integrated solutions into city development guidelines and plans to maintain freshwater resources in a good state, despite a changing climate.
The seminar takes place online on December 16, 2021 at 8:45‒12:00 EET. Please register for the event via link by the end of Tuesday, December 14. The event is held both in English and in Russian. Registered attendees can choose their streaming language.
Date: Thursday 16 December 2021, 8:45‒12:00 EET
Registration is closed.
Seminar Programme
| Time (EET) | Programme | |
| 8.30‒8.45 | Registration | |
| 8.45 | Opening Words | Jouni Pihlaja (Geological Survey of Finland GTK) & Philipp Schmidt-Thomé (Geological Survey of Finland GTK) |
| How Can We Adapt to Climate Change in Urban Water Management | Johannes Klein (Geological Survey of Finland GTK) | |
| Modelling Climate Change Impacts on Groundwater Flow in Mikkeli and Lahti – Scenarios Up to 2100 | Arto Hyvönen (Geological Survey of Finland GTK) | |
| Climate Change and Hydrological Regime of Rivers in the St. Petersburg Area | Olga Zadonskaya (Federal State Budgetary Institution, State Hydrological Institute SHI) & Dinara Fasolko (Voeikov Main Geophysical Observatory MGO) | |
| 10.05‒10.25 | Break | |
| The Threats of Climate Change for Groundwater in Mikkeli | Juha Rautio (City of Mikkeli) | |
| Groundwater Protection and Climate Change in Lahti | Ismo Malin (City of Lahti) | |
| Storm Water Management in Changing Climate in St. Petersburg | Irina Kostenko (State Unitary Enterprise, Vodokanal of St. Petersburg SUE) & Victor Ignatchik (Association of Water Engineers and Scientists AViV LLC.) | |
| Storm Water Management and Green Solutions in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area | Maaria Parry (Helsinki Region Environmental Services HSY) | |
| 11.50‒12.00 | Closing the Event | Johannes Klein (Geological Survey of Finland GTK) |
The project focused on the needs of Mikkeli, Lahti, and the Helsinki Metropolitan Area in Finland, and St. Petersburg in Russia. It was funded by the South-East Finland – Russia CBC Programme 2014-2020. For more information visit the RAINMAN project webpage.
