Urban Water Resilience focuses on creating adaptive, sustainable cities by improving water management, enhancing green infrastructure, and fostering community engagement to withstand unforeseen and unexpected challenges.
Rita Ugarelli is Chief Scientist at SINTEF Community and adjunct professor at NTNU, Norway. She holds a PhD in Civil Engineering, specializing in Infrastructure Asset Management (IAM) for urban water systems. She coordinated the H2020 STOP-IT project, led cybersecurity and interoperability tasks in the Digital Water City project, developed a “water smartness” framework in B-WaterSmart and leader of the data analysis in the HE EU-CIP project. Rita is Associate Editor of the Urban Water Journal, Board Director at Water Europe, Vice President of Water Europe’s Executive Committee, and a member of the European Commission expert group on critical infrastructure protection.