How to bridge water and society was the question the participants of the expert meeting society tried to answer on the 28^th of September in Fryslan. Govert Geldof presented a few examples of the interaction between water and society to introduce the discussion. 
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June first: Official open day meeting at Chellow Dene - Bradford
Bradford held an official open day meeting at Chellow Dene saturday June first and we had some good publicity from it. Y ou can see a live interview with Kirsty on www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk left hand menu, then video news.

April 20th: Looking into the future
Knowledge exchange meeting water management

Knowledge exchange is one of the most important objectives of uwc-project. Of the five knowledge exchange topics the uwc-project counts, water management was topic of a workshop on April the 20th. Several councillors and experts involved in either UrbanWaterCycle and/or Noris applied themselves in Bradford for this combined meeting. Tauw accompanied the workshop and flew in a council from 2025 for the occasion. This councillor from the future knew exactly how water problems are handled in about 19 years. Everybody was allowed to ask him one question concerning the future, which led to some incinerating insights. After lunch the discussion moved from ‘times to come’ to the ‘present time’.

The new uwc-project ` the Roombeek’ was used as example for a discussion about how to optimise urban water management. Propositions were deposited by Tauw and the room could pronounce himself about this idea. Was the proposition brave, reckless, or an example of coward ness? It became a sparkling discussion. A lot of time was spend discussing how tot involve society in water projects in urban area’s.

To end the day close to every day practise, Tony Poole (project leader at the city or Bradford for both UWC and Noris) took the visitors to a few urban water projects in the city or Bradford.



March 2006: New projects UWC-approved
Due to the withdrawal of the municipality of Karlebo we needed to make an adaptive proposal with new projects, which would compensate the budget and indicators of the Karlebo project. Luckily we succeeded; in the second week of March we received the ‘approval letter’!

September 2005: Karlebo leaves the UWC-project
As a result of a fusion process, Karlebo municipality experienced extra dificulties in meeting the requirements and investments argeerd upon. Eventually the had to withdraw from the project. The other partbers compensated for the withdrawl of Karlebo with new projects to fill up the budget and indicators.