The design of appropriate tools to deal with future stresses requires an understanding of the
potential pressures, either opportunities or threats. This report identifies and describes
different pressures of critical importance for the water sector, taking into account that
global trends often take diverse forms and have dissimilar impacts on a local scale. Chapter
1 introduces the UWCS components and the sustainability approach considered in this
context. In Chapter 2 the different pressures affecting UWCS are framed according to the
sustainability dimensions: environmental, social and economic. A general description of
relevant pressures is presented in terms of context situation, geographic dependency and
expected tendencies for the future. Chapter 3 identifies possible future trends on UWCS
according to those pressures. Their consideration will allow many countries to undergo
considerable changes and to define strategies to solve impending problems and exploit
emerging opportunities. Based on the identified trends for the water sector, Chapter 4
presents the prediction of major global change pressures and its impacts on Pilots of TRUST.
The two annexes of this report present the principal climatic drivers, in terms of the future
projection of weather variables (precipitation and temperature) in the areas of the TRUST
pilot citiesRamôa, AR.; Toth, E.; Proença De Oliveira, R.; Di Frederico, V.; Montanari, A.; Monteiro, AJ. (2015). Review of global change pressures on Urban Water Cycle Systems. Assessment of TRUST Pilots. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/5364