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SUMMARY:Water in the city\, Luca Rossi / Point Supreme
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DESCRIPTION:Luca Rossi is  Urban water specialist\, covering all aspects 
 of the problematic from pollutant source identification and hydrological p
 roblems to impact assessment and definition of original technical solution
 s.\n​\nSpecialized in integrated urban water management\, environmenta
 l monitoring and interdisciplinary researches\nAthens has lost its relat
 ion to water. Part of a general absence of any conscious\, let alone desig
 ned\, integration of nature in the contemporary city\, the presence of wat
 er has been completely eradicated from the city center and its urban exper
 ience \; an ironic fact considering that in Ancient times Athens was cover
 ed by a network of rivers that were sacred. Athenians considered water to 
 be a supreme good\, an inextricable part of daily routine with cisterns at
  the center of the Academies.\n\nThe rivers of Athens were built upon and 
 turned into highways in the years of intense construction. There are extre
 mely few public or open pools. There are not even any drinking fountains o
 n streets or public spaces. It is difficult to explain why and how the cit
 y erased water from its daily public life so dramatically\, especially con
 sidering the climate change causing record-high global temperatures and li
 fe-threatening heat waves that are going to be longer and more frequent\, 
 a condition coupled with reduced rainfalls.
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