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A new device for low-cost monitoring of combined sewer overflows is being deployed in large sewer networks. Data obtained will support the digitalisation of urban water systems and improve the knowledge of utilities regarding the performance of sewer networks during rainfall events. This device is only one out-of-15 innovative technologies tested within the H2020 digital-water.city innovation project., In publication process This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 820954.

The Workshop “Digitalization of Bathing Water Management” organized by Water Europe (WE), together with the Horizon 2020 project digital-water.city, the EU-LIFE project iBathWater and the Synergea project took place online on the 5th of April. It was moderated by Pascale Rouault, KWB Department Leader urban systems, Co-Leader of Water Europe’s Working Group Water & Zero Pollution. The objectives of the workshop were to: • Draw concrete policy recommendations for the ongoing revision of the Bathing Water Directive (BWD), • Explore the benefits of digital innovations such as online sensors, machine learning, processbased models and mobile apps for managing microbial safety of bathing water sites, • Promote an open-source data-driven early-warning system, which is currently developed within digital-water.city., This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 820954.

Sewer asset management gained momentum and importance in recent years due to economic considerations, since infrastructure maintenance and rehabilitation directly represent major investments. Because physical urban water infrastructure has life expectancies of up to 100 years or more, contemporary urban drainage systems are strongly influenced by historical decisions and implementations. The current decisions taken in sewer asset management will, therefore, have a long-lasting impact on the functionality and quality of future services provided by these networks. These decisions can be supported by different approaches ranging from various inspection techniques, deterioration models to assess the probability of failure or the technical service life, to sophisticated decision support systems crossing boundaries to other urban infrastructure. This paper presents the state of the art in sewer asset management in its manifold facets spanning a wide field of research and highlights existing research gaps while giving an outlook on future developments and research areas. © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.

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Digital solutions open up a variety of opportunities for the water sector. Digital water is now seen not as an ‘option’ but as an ‘imperative’ (Sarni et al., 2019) for a more sustainable and secure water management. Many solutions leverage the latest innovations developed across industries and business activities including advanced sensors, data analytics and artificial intelligence. The potential of digitalization might outweigh its associated risk if digital solutions are successfully implemented addressing a series of gaps and barriers such as ICT governance, cybersecurity, data protection, interoperability and capacity building. Within this context, the H2020 innovation project digital-water.city (DWC) aims at boosting the integrated management of waters systems in five major European cities – Berlin, Copenhagen, Milan, Paris and Sofia – by leveraging the potential of data and digital technologies. Goal is to quantify the benefits of a panel of 15 innovative digital solutions and achieve their long-term uptake and successful integration in the existing digital systems and governance processes. One of these promising technology is a new sensor for real-time bacterial measurements, manufactured by the company Fluidion (ALERT System; Angelescu et al., 2019). The device is fully autonomous, remotely controllable, installed in-situ and allows rapid quantification of E.coli and enterococci concentrations., This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 820954.

EU-Vorhaben Digital-Water.City: Digitale Tools für das Wassermanagement, This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 820954.