The MORE4WATER Stakeholder Forum brings together utilities, policymakers, researchers and citizens to discuss challenges, share experiences and co-create solutions for sustainable water management.
Feedback from water utilities, including on high-frequency monitoring and PRV performance, influenced the focus of subsequent Living Lab activities and research and technology-transfer discussions.
Stakeholder Forum article series
The MORE4WATER Stakeholder Forum has launched a dedicated article series in Servizi a Rete, a national technical journal widely read by Italian water utilities and water-sector professionals.
The initiative creates a direct dialogue between researchers and water utilities, allowing operational experience to inform research and project results to reach professionals working in the field.
So far, 8 Italian water utilities have contributed to two thematic discussions:
– Water transmission mains, involving Acea Acqua – Gruppo Acea, Alto Trevigiano Servizi, Publiacqua and Acoset SpA, with a focus on resilience, monitoring, digitalisation, infrastructure ageing and future design.
– Water distribution networks, involving Acque, ABC – Acqua Bene Comune Napoli, Piave Servizi and Tennacola SpA, addressing pipe failures, water losses, user-induced pressure variations, monitoring and asset management.
The Forum also provides a channel for transferring MORE4WATER innovations to utilities, including the M4WLogger high-frequency monitoring system developed within the project.
This initiative reflects the Living Lab philosophy of MORE4WATER: knowledge transfer, co-creation with utilities and the development of solutions grounded in real operational needs.
Water Transmission Mains: Challenges, Monitoring and Resilience
Journal : Servizi a Rete
Authors : B. Brunone, S. Meniconi and C. Capponi
Volume : 4 (forum 1) and 5 (forum 2)
Pages : 150-163 (forum 1) and 96-97 (forum 2)
Year : 2026
Water Distribution Networks: Failures, Monitoring and Asset Management
Journal : Servizi a Rete
Authors : B. Brunone, S. Meniconi and C. Capponi
Volume : 6 (forum 1) and 1 (forum 2)
Pages : 50-58 (forum 1) and 20-21 (forum 2)
Year : 2025 (forum 1) and 2026 (forum 2)
Partner workshops/stakeholder sessions
9 April 2024
“DiscoverIng”, University of Perugia, Perugia (Italy): outreach event in which the MORE4WATER project was presented by Silvia Meniconi to about 100 high-school students
11 October 2024
International Workshop UNIPG-UNIVALI “Attivismo giudiziario e dialoghi transgiudiziali sull’Antropocene: parametri per l’interazione tra decisioni nazionali e transnazionali” on transnational law & environmental governance, University of Perugia, Perugia (Italy)
1- 4 February 2025
Water as a Common Good: Transnational Management of the Guaraní and Amazonian Aquifers. On February 4, 2025, CSACA (Centro Studi AMERICANISTICI “Circolo Amerindiano”) in Perugia hosted an extraordinary meeting focused on the sustainable management of water resources, an issue as urgent as it is vital amid climate change and the global environmental crisis.
20 February 2025
“A day at University: the project MORE4WATER”, University of Perugia, Perugia (Italy): outreach event in which the first results of the MORE4WATER project were presented to about 50 secondary-school students
19 March 2025
”A day at Water Engineering Laboratory of the University of Perugia”, Perugia (Italy): an outreach event in which the first results of the MORE4WATER project were presented to about 20 primary-school students
28 May 2025
“Engineering of Water Networks, Optimization and Sustainability: The Experience of AcegasApsAmga” / “Ingegneria delle reti idriche, ottimizzazione e sostenibilità: l’esperienza di AcegasApsAmga”, University of Perugia, Perugia (Italy): a seminar given by Andrea Rubin (AcegasApsAmga S.p.A.) to about 50 university students. The session showcased the first results of the MORE4WATER project and highlighted the role of AcegasApsAmga S.p.A. in implementing innovative monitoring and pressure-control strategies.
22 July 2025
Multi-Stakeholder Conference at ACEA S.p.A. Headquarters, Rome “Fenomeni di moto vario nei sistemi di adduzione e distribuzione idrica” — a conference hosted by ACEA S.p.A., the utility managing the city of Rome. The event presented the objectives and results achieved so far within the MORE4WATER project, focusing on wireless sensor networks, real-time monitoring and pressure control in water distribution systems.
7 October 2025
Accadueo 2025, BolognaFiere, Bologna (Italy): stakeholder session on Pressure Reducing Valves (PRVs), bringing together the University of Perugia, Politecnico di Milano and three PRV technology companies — TIS Service, RACI and Bermad Italy — to discuss monitoring, performance and efficiency of PRVs in water distribution networks
27–28 October 2025
Workshop on Citizenship, Democracy and Environment, Perugia.
MORE4WATER and the Jean Monnet Module ECO-PoLeIS brought together researchers, institutions and local stakeholders to discuss participation, environmental governance and the human right to water.
30 October 2025
“Apericerca” at POST science museum in Perugia, Italy. An outreach event, open to the community, focused on the importance and value of water as a vital resource. Professor Silvia Meniconi delivered a presentation addressing this topic within the framework of the challenges and opportunities explored by the More4Water project.
The audience was actively engaged through an interactive challenge that invited participants to answer questions on water-related issues from multiple perspectives — including engineering, agriculture, law, and economics. This approach fostered meaningful interaction, encouraged questions, and allowed participants to clarify their doubts while deepening their understanding of the topic.
12–15 March 2026
MORE4WATER contributed to the fourth edition of the Water Forum, an annual event promoting dialogue on water governance, sustainable management and the relationship between water, territories and communities.
6 May 2026
“Technical visit to the pilot system PS3 in Padua” co-organized by AcegasApsAmga and University of Perugia to show digital monitoring in action.
70 students of the University of Perugia explored how the integrated water cycle is managed, from water collection to distribution. Under the supervision of Eng. Andrea Rubin, Eng. Lorenzo Tirello, Eng. Francesca Gagliardi, Eng. Alessandra Carta and Eng. Alberto Doro, they visited the Brentelle and Montà pumping stations and the main transmission pipelines supplying the city of Padua from the Villaverla spring system. Students also had the opportunity to enter inside a water tank, directly experiencing the infrastructure behind urban water distribution systems.
The initiative represented an important opportunity to connect academic learning with real-world engineering practice and included interactive activities such as the “DoMore4Water” quiz.
2–3 September 2026
MORE4WATER was represented at the 15th Global Leakage Summit in London, where Bruno Brunone presented recent research on the use of pressure data for identifying the source of pressure surges in water distribution networks.
Culture Meets Science
Musical performance “Invisible Boundaries – Soundscapes for Liquid Ecosystems” at the Water Engineering Laboratory, UNIPG — connecting science and society through art
Media presence
Presentation of MORE4WATER on TG3 Fuori TG (Rai 3, 3 December 2024), highlighting drought issues across Italian regions and featuring the project as a promising solution for real-time monitoring and sustainable water management.
Umbria Economia: “More4Water: Perugia lancia ufficialmente il progetto”
ANSA: “A Perugia prende ufficialmente avvio More4Water”
La voce del Territorio Umbro: “Risposte locali a sfide globali: il caso dei gruppi d’acquisto e delle food coop al centro di un focus dell’UniPg”
Umbria Domani: “Risposte locali a sfide globali: il caso dei gruppi d’acquisto e delle food coop al centro di un focus dell’UniPg”
Il Giornale dell’Umbria: “Apericerca al POST: si parla ancora d’acqua e di progetti legati a questa fondamentale risorsa”
