Normal rainfall and cloudbursts

Climate change is putting huge pressure on sewer systems. However, the best solution is perhaps not to replace existing pipes with larger ones.

Often, the combination of thorough planning and surveying, technologies and methods to detain and remove rainwater, as well as drainage technologies to halt, distribute and treat stormwater, can be more effective and less costly than extensive renovation works.

At the same time, both the water and the green solutions to manage it could provide added value to an area; value that would otherwise have been lost.

Technologies to manage growing everyday rainwater volumes as well as more frequent and ever more powerful cloudbursts fall into five categories: