Input to deliverable 6.1.5-6 Comparative Analysis of Enabling Factors for Sustainable Urban Water Management Case study brief -Beijing, managing water for the eco city of the future

Abstract Introduction Global changes such as climate change and volatility, urbanization and industrialization, population growth, urban sprawl, rural-urban migration put pressure on cities. The Switch project emphasizes the importance of integrated water resource management. i The approach is very much focused on closing the urban water cycle, defined as the link between the resource, its use for drinking water and the eventual reuse to allow the water to flow back in the resource. For integrated urban water cycle management the available water resources, the required drinking water supply and proper waste water treatment are three important moments, with each its specific problems in China