The world faces multiple water crises, including overextraction, flooding, ecosystem degradation and inequitable safe water access. Engineers and scientists working to address these challenges often need to consider trade-offs, uncertainties and unintended consequences. Recent scientific advances in water engineering, policy and economics offer opportunities to improve responses to these issues. This talk reviews some of these advances and identifies opportunities to embed them in engineering design and water resources planning.

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Edoardo Borgomeo is Associate Professor of Water Engineering at the University of Cambridge. Prior to joining Cambridge, Edoardo was staff of the World Bank, working on national water resources management projects, dialogue over international waters, and desalination and wastewater reuse strategy. Prior to joining the World Bank, he worked at the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations in Rome and at the International Water Management Institute in Sri Lanka. Edoardo is the author of Oro Blu, a popular science book on water and climate change in Italian that was awarded the Asimov Prize in 2023.