| projects-191 |
226565 |
AQUAREHAB |
Development of rehabilitation technologies and approaches for multipressured degraded waters and the integration of their impact on river basin management |
FP7 |
No data |
ENV.2008.3.1.1.1. |
2009-05-01 |
2013-12-31 |
Completed |
€ 008 586 544.60 |
Within the AQUAREHAB project, different innovative rehabilitation technologies for soil, groundwater and surface water will be developed to cope with a number of hazardous (nitrates, pesticides, chlorinated and aromatic compounds, mixed pollutions,…) within heavily degraded water systems. The technologies are activated riparian zones/wetlands; smart biomass containing carriers for treatment of water in open trenches; in-situ technologies to restore degraded surface water by inhibiting influx of pollutants from groundwater to surface water; multifunctional permeable barriers and injectable Fe-based particles for rehabilitation of groundwater. Methods will be developed to determine the (long-term) impact of the innovative rehabilitation technologies on the reduction of the influx of these priority pollutants towards the receptor. A connection between the innovative technologies and river basin management will be worked out. In a first stage of the project, the technologies and integration of their impact in river basin management will be developed in three different river basins (Denmark, Israel, Belgium). In a second stage, the generic approaches will be extrapolated to one or two more river basins. One of the major outcomes of the project will be a generic river basin management tool that integrates multiple measures with ecological and economic impact assessments of the whole water system. The research in the project is focussed on innovative rehabilitation strategies to reduce priority pollutants in the water system whereas the generic management tool will include other measures related to flood protection, water scarcity and ecosystem health, The project will aid in underpinning river basin management plans being developed in EU Member States, and will demonstrate cost effective technologies that can provide technical options for national and local water managers, planners and other stakeholders (drinking water companies, industry, agriculture, |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/226565 |
Rivers and estuaries', 'Wetlands', 'Groundwater' |
| projects-192 |
280756 |
E4WATER |
Economically and Ecologically Efficient Water Management in the European Chemical Industry |
FP7 |
No data |
NMP.2011.3.4-1 |
2012-05-01 |
2016-04-30 |
Completed |
€ 017 031 405.40 |
Chemical Industry provides the highest potential for increasing eco-efficiency in industrial water management. E4Water addresses crucial process industry needs, to overcome bottle necks and barriers for an integrated and energy efficient water management. The main objective is to develop, test and validate new integrated approaches, methodologies and process technologies for a more efficient and sustainable management of water in chemical industry with cross-fertilization possibilities to other industrial sectors. E4water unites in its consortium large chemical industries, leading European water sector companies and innovative RTD centers and universities, active in the area of water management and also involved in WssTP and SusChem and collaborating with water authorities.E4Water builds on state-of-the-art and new basic R&D concepts. Their realization, improvement, utilization and validation, with the compromise of early industrial adaptors, are clearly innovative.E4water realizes this by (1) developing and testing innovative materials, process technologies, tools and methodologies for an integrated water management, (2) providing an open innovation approach for testing E4Water developments with respect to other industries (3) implementing and validating the developments in 6 industrial case studies, representing critical problems for the chemical industry and other process industries, (4) implementing improved tools for process efficiency optimization, linking water processes with production processes, and eco-efficiency assessment.E4Water aims to exceed the expected impacts defined in the call text; an expected reduction of 20-40% in water use, 30-70% in wastewater production, 15-40% in energy use and up to 60% direct economic benefits at the case study sites ensures a wide acceptance of the solutions developed during the project. The complementarity of the sites guarantees the transfer of solutions from the project to Chemical Industry and related sectors. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/280756 |
Urban water' |
| projects-193 |
308672 |
SARASWATI |
Supporting consolidation, replication and up-scaling of sustainable wastewater treatment and reuse technologies for India |
FP7 |
No data |
ENV.2012.6.6-1 |
2012-09-01 |
2017-05-31 |
Completed |
€ 002 930 674.36 |
The poor condition of sanitation and wastewater management in India (as in many Asian countries) is well documented and has recently led the Asian Development Bank to call for a revolution in wastewater management across Asia. Conventional, centralized approaches have failed in many areas and will hardly be able to solve potential problems in rural, hilly and rapidly developing urban areas in India. Instead, innovative, decentralised systems aiming at various benefits are needed. A main benefit in the context of SARASWATI is the reuse of treated wastewater for different purposes. Other benefits include reuse of energy and nutrients, which are also important. Despite the overall poor condition of wastewater treatment across South Asia, India has already considerable experience with such decentralised approaches. Over the last decade, hundreds of decentralised wastewater treatment plants of different technology types have been installed all over India. However, not all are functioning well and several also failed, due to various reasons. Also, there is no consolidated evaluation and review of all those existing plants available. As a result there is only very limited knowledge on the performance of those existing technologies available and a review and evaluation of those plants is very timely in order to derive sound conclusions and recommendations for future wastewater management strategies in India. SARASWATI will perform such a comprehensive and independent evaluation and hence provide key suggestions for the improvement of existing technologies. In addition, SARASWATI aims at deploying selected proven EU technologies with a potential for solving grave water challenges in India (water pollution due to discharge of untreated wastewater and storm-water, water scarcity and groundwater depletion, unhygienic sludge handling practices due to lack of suitable technologies). Water challenged sites have been identified in 5 Indian States comprising almost all regions. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/308672 |
Urban water', 'Groundwater' |
| projects-194 |
322655 |
WATEUR |
Tackling European Water Challenges |
FP7 |
No data |
ENV.2012.6.3-5 |
2013-01-01 |
2016-06-30 |
Completed |
€ 002 342 604.20 |
Water is a critical resource for the European society. Beside its main life function, freshwater also provides many other functions essential to our economy such as transport, energy provision, heat exchange, cleaning, washing, and constitutes a necessary raw material for many industries. Water availability in sufficient quantities and adequate quality is an issue of highest priority and represents a pan-European and global societal challenge. Water challenges cannot be successfully tackled through the isolated effort of individual national research and innovation programmes. A significant share (more than 70%) of public spending in water research and technology development is programmed, executed and evaluated at national level.Joint Programming Initiatives (JPI) aim at a coordinated and strategic approach to public national and regional research and innovation funding in Europe. Ten critical societal challenges have been identified in Europe and are being addressed through Joint Programming. “Water Challenges for a Changing World” (the Water JPI) is one of them. The Water JPI aims at achieving sustainable water systems for a sustainable economy in Europe and beyond.WatEUr will prepare and support the successful development and implementation of the Water JPI. WatEUr will permeate the structures of the Water JPI to impulse progress towards JPI objectives. Now that Water JPI Vision and Management Structure have been developed, actions are needed to sustain the current structures and to fasten progress in joint activities between national/regional programmes in Europe that will make the Water JPI instrumental to the Research, Development and Innovation community, and effective in tackling European water challenges. Examples of such joint activities include the recurrent mapping of national and regional RDI funding, institutions, programmes and projects, the iterative production of Strategic Research and Innovation Agendas, the undertaking of joint activities including the coordination of joint RDI agendas, joint call(s) on a variable geometry, coordination with water RDI activities within and outside Europe and joint dissemination.WatEUr and the Water JPI will benefit researchers, policy-makers, water authorities, utility operators, industry, farmers, and citizens by developing new solutions to water challenges. Solutions will include safe supply of clean drinking water, improved protection against new emerging water pollutants or pathogens and water hazards like floods and droughts, and a progressive shift towards a more water-efficient economy in Europe.Water knows neither political nor administrative borders. As a matter of fact, most of the European territory falls within transboundary watersheds. WatEUr will assist the Water JPI in addressing fragmentation, preventing duplication of efforts and guaranteeing sufficient critical mass. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/322655 |
Urban water', 'Rivers and estuaries', 'Coastal waters', 'Groundwater', 'Water reservoir', 'Lake', 'Wetlands' |
| projects-195 |
619660 |
Waternomics |
ICT for Water Resource Management |
FP7 |
No data |
ICT-2013.6.3 |
2014-02-01 |
2017-01-31 |
Completed |
€ 004 240 250.00 |
Climate change, increased urbanization and increased world population are several of the factors driving global challenges for water management. In fact, the World Economic Forum has cited "The Water Supply Crises" as a major risk to global economic growth and environmental policies in the next 10 years. In parallel, the United Nations has called for intensified international collaboration.To this challenge, WATERNOMICS will develop and introduce ICT as an enabling technology to manage water as a resource, increase end-user conservation awareness and affect behavioural changes, and to avoid waste through leak detection. In saving water, energy will also be conserved (treatment and pumping) as will the CO2 associated with energy production. Unique aspects of WATERNOMICS include personalized feedback about end-user water consumption, the development of a methodology for the design and implementation of systematic and standards-based water resource management systems, new sensor hardware developments to make water metering more economic and easier to install, and the introduction of forecasting and fault detection diagnosis to the analysis of water consumption data.WATERNOMICS will be demonstrated in three high impact pilots that target three different end users/stakeholders:1.\tDomestic users in Greece implemented by a water utility2.\tCorporate operator in Italy provided by a major EU airport3.\tMixed use building in IrelandThrough these contributions, WATERNOMICS will pioneer a new dialogue between water stakeholders. It will enable the introduction of Demand Response principles and open business models through an innovative human centric approach that uses personalized water data, water availability based pricing, and gamification of water usage statistics. To maximize impact, the project highlights business development, exploitation planning, and outcome oriented dissemination. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/619660 |
Urban water' |
| projects-196 |
613717 |
OPIRIS |
Online Professional Irrigation Scheduling Expert System |
FP7 |
No data |
KBBE.2013.1.4-07 |
2013-12-01 |
2015-11-30 |
Completed |
€ 001 297 627.40 |
Increasing water scarcity and environmental concerns have urged the search for solutions for better water management in irrigated agriculture. Precision irrigation is one of these solutions.Technologies have developed potential systems, although effective partnerships have to be fostered between private industry and scientific community to shape up some common and complementary solutions.The project proposes the development of an expert system, based on the exploitation of results from three previous projects in order to acquire data from sensors, match it against a data base, produce decisions on water and energy savingsThe innovative solution of the proposal resides (1) on his historical database built upon real case studies, (2) is shared on the web which guarantees cheaper access to this technology and (3) helps changing the current culture and behavior and into getting agricultural exploitation into the use of ICTs.A) Direct benefits are:1)Saving water, especially where annual traditional amount of irrigation water is beyond average crop water requirements.2)Saving energy and manpower required to pump and distribute excess water.B) Indirect benefits are:1)Reducing leaching of fertilizers out of the plant root zone2)Improving water and fertilizers availability for the plant3)Reducing deep water percolation and contamination to underground aquifer by agricultural chemicals.4)Providing information about the local soil hydrodynamic characteristics, the advance of wetting front during irrigation events and the depth and daily pattern of root water uptake.5)Providing information on the hydraulic performance of the irrigation system in use.6)Providing information on the current crop development and growing stages.7)Creating a closer relationship between the farmer and his production system. It offers him a better real understanding of water and nutrient balance within water-soil-plant system.8)Creating consistency in yields between years. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/613717 |
Groundwater', 'Urban water' |
| projects-197 |
776643 |
HYDROUSA |
Demonstration of water loops with innovative regenerative business models for the Mediterranean region |
H2020 |
H2020-IND-CE-2016-17 |
CIRC-02-2016-2017 |
2018-07-01 |
2023-06-30 |
Completed |
€ 012 015 448.75 |
HYDROUSA will provide innovative, regenerative and circular solutions for (1) nature-based water management of Mediterranean coastal areas, closing water loops; (2) nutrient management, boosting the agricultural and energy profile; and (3) local economies, based on circular value chains. The services provided lead to a win-win-win situation for the economy, environment and community within the water-energy-food-employment nexus.HYDROUSA water loops will include water from non-conventional sources including wastewater, rainwater, seawater, groundwater and vapour water, all resulting in recovered and marketable products. HYDROUSA will demonstrate at large scale the feasibility and sustainability of innovative, low-cost water treatment technologies to recover freshwater, nutrients and energy from wastewater, salt and freshwater from seawater, and freshwater from atmospheric water vapour. Water conservation solutions including aquifer storage and sustainable agricultural practices including fertigation will be applied. The solutions will be demonstrated on 3 major touristic islands in Greece. Detailed technical and financial deployment plans will be established for replication in additional 25 locations worldwide. Through the on-site water loops of HYDROUSA, complex supply chains for resource recovery are not required, as producers are directly involved as consumers of derived products. HYDROUSA will combine traditional skilled workmanship with modern ICT integration in beautiful and smart automation systems. HYDROUSA will revolutionise water value chains in Mediterranean areas and beyond, from water abstraction to sewage treatment and reuse. The proposed HYDROUSA solutions show massive potential to change the way humans interact with water, food and energy. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/776643 |
Coastal waters', 'Urban water', 'Groundwater' |
| projects-198 |
734409 |
Water4Cities |
Holistic Surface Water and Groundwater Management for Sustainable Cities |
H2020 |
H2020-MSCA-RISE-2016 |
MSCA-RISE-2016 |
2017-03-01 |
2021-09-30 |
Completed |
€ 001 242 000.00 |
Urban water management becomes progressively more challenging in the view of population growth and increasing complexity of water management infrastructure. In this line, there is an ever increase demand from the water providers’ and public authorities’ perspective to critically evaluate the existing water ecosystems at city level in respect to the water supply, waste water treatment, reuse potential and the effect the growing population has on the water ecosystem and endangered species. To enable effective decision making at the entire city level, both surface water and groundwater should be viewed as part of the overall urban water ecosystem with its spatio-temporal availability, quantity and quality and competing uses being taken into account. The Water4Cities project will rely on sensor technologies, data and visual analytics to enable localization, visualization and analysis of urban water (both surface water and groundwater) at a holistic urban setting providing services to multiple water stakeholders. More specifically, the Water4Cities project aims to develop the necessary models and associated platform that will enable water providers and relevant stakeholders to a) monitor in real-time the urban water resources; b) support their decisions for optimal urban water management causing minimal environmental impact and c) involve policy makers, corporations and the public to provide the support for sound and balanced decision-making. Beyond the scientific results, Water4Cities will target the exchange of knowledge among project partners. The Water4Cities project requires the collaboration of researchers in different research areas, i.e., water management, urban infrastructure management, sensor networks, data mining, data visualization, system integration, urban planning. Due to the multi-disciplinary nature of the project, staff exchanges will allow partners working closely together to deliver high quality results. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/734409 |
Urban water', 'Groundwater' |
| projects-199 |
848537 |
WATERSIGN |
WATERSIGN: Smart Water Monitoring & Leakage Detection |
H2020 |
H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020 |
EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020 |
2019-06-01 |
2022-02-28 |
Completed |
€ 003 013 616.00 |
To enable a more efficient use of water and limit wasteful usage, real time monitoring and alerts in case of burst, blockage or leakageis needed to empower consumers to take corrective action as quickly as possible. Tavlit's Watersign System’s disruptive patentedtechnology reduces water wastage and maximizes the efficient use of water, thereby preserving scarce resources, by enabling realtime monitoring of water supply lines and irrigation systems. The system is simple and economical, making it an ideal solution forwater management. Using the water itself as the medium to transfer the data, the system detects leakages, bursts, blockages, watertheft and unauthorized connections, identifying the specific point/location of the disturbance, and alerts the user immediately sothat corrective action can be taken. The system analyses water consumption patterns and sends alerts in the case of irregularbehaviour, as well as immediately sending an alert when non-potable water enters a potable water system.The system is comprised of just one sensor located at the inlet of the water system being monitored, while each individual wateroutlet is equipped with a Watersign-marker, a mechanical device operated by the water flow, creating small flow/pressurefluctuations in the water, generating a unique signature at every outlet, identifying each user by small fluctuations in the water flow/pressure. The water itself is used as the medium to transmit information from all markers simultaneously to the sensor located at theinlet of the system. A smart algorithm separates between signals and identifies each user, sending an immediate alert in case ofirregular behaviour.The project’s objective is to bring the Watersign System to full commercialisation using Tavlit’s global market presence andreputation. Throughout the project, pilot sites will be operational, including agricultural, landscape & turf and golf course sites, aswell as rural village and water utility pilots. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/848537 |
Urban water' |
| projects-200 |
688320 |
MADFORWATER |
DevelopMent AnD application of integrated technological and management solutions FOR wasteWATER treatment and efficient reuse in agriculture tailored to the needs of Mediterranean African Countries |
H2020 |
H2020-WATER-2014-2015 |
WATER-5c-2015 |
2016-06-01 |
2020-11-30 |
Completed |
€ 003 722 168.75 |
Climate change and population growth are expected to exacerbate the water crisis of Mediterranean African Countries (MACs), where agriculture accounts for 80-85% of freshwater consumption. The aim of MADFORWATER is to develop a set of integrated technological and management solutions to enhance wastewater treatment, reuse for irrigation and water efficiency in agriculture in three MACs (Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt). MADFORWATER will develop and adapt to three main hydrological basins in the selected MACs technologies for the production of irrigation-quality water from drainage canals, municipal, agro-industrial and industrial wastewaters, and technologies for water efficiency and reuse in agriculture, initially validated at laboratory scale. Selected technologies will be further adapted and validated in four field pilot plants of integrated wastewater treatment/reuse. Integrated strategies for wastewater treatment and reuse targeted to the selected basins will be developed, and guidelines for the development of integrated water management strategies in other basins of the three target MACs will be produced, considering climate change, population increase and economic growth scenarios. The social and technical suitability of the developed technologies and non-technological instruments in relation to the local context will be evaluated with the participation of MAC stakeholders and partners. Guidelines on economic instruments and policies for the effective implementation of the proposed water management solutions in the target MACs will be developed. The project will lead to a relevant long-term impact in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia in terms of increased wastewater treatment, wastewater reuse, food production and income in the agricultural and water treatment sectors, and decreased groundwater exploitation, water pollution and food contamination. The MADFORWATER consortium consists of 18 partners, 5 of which from the 3 MACs and 1 from China. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/688320 |
Urban water', 'Groundwater' |
