DYRES SYSTEM

The world today faces enormous challenges in redesigning and rebuilding water systems, wastewater plants and infrastructure in general. Major investment is required to renew and upgrade these aging systems to adopt for rapidly growing population, whose future is affected by uncertain changing climate and natural disasters (e.g. earthquakes). Over the last few decades we have been witnessing many catastrophic hazardous events (e.g. floods, droughts) that have considerably exceeded the largest foreseen events and caused billions in damage. For example, floods in Europe have affected more than 1,100 fatalities and 3 million people in the period 1998-2009, with direct lost estimated as EUR 60 billion. The European Commission has estimated that, at least 17 % of its territory have been affected by water scarcity to date and put the cost of droughts in Europe over the past thirty years at EUR 100 billion. In addition, it has been estimated that earthquakes are responsible for about 35% of..