P.arcs del D.A.R.rere. Of EDAR environments as new spaces of hydro forest gestion for the fluvial restauration

PROBLEM. Water is an increasingly scarce resource. Due to climate change, there will be less and less water in our rivers. This results in worse water quality, especially in the case of stationary rivers where the natural flow is minimal. In our case study, Ripoll river, 70% of its flow is sewage.
Currently, 58% of Catalan rivers are not in good condition despite the implementation of the EDARs (Sewage treatment plants), which have a positive impact yet a limited effect. In addition, these infrastructures and their water cycle are invisible to the citizenship, which explains the limited awareness of its environmental relevance.
MECHANISEM. Knowing the aim is to improve water quality and the way in which we manage the resource, empowering EDAR environments as nodes for river restoration and expanding its role may be the method to achieve it.
At the same time, these peripheral spaces characterized by the presence of vacant lots and old abandoned factories are in being colonized by the third landscape; optimal context for rethinking new natural areas and binding them with the population who has always lived behind them, in the backyard of the city.