| projects-371 |
219294 |
FLOODSETS |
Flume study of flood history effects on sediment entrainment and transport in gravel-bed rivers |
FP7 |
No data |
PEOPLE-2007-2-1.IEF |
2008-05-01 |
2010-04-30 |
Completed |
ā¬ 000 169 390.93 |
Floods are among the most effective geomorphic force featuring the landscape, and also one of the most hazardous natural phenomena. The timing of flood events has a major impact on fluvial morphodynamics, river management and flood protection planning, especially under a perspective of climate change, i.e. long drought periods followed by flashy intense floods. However, the effects of different sequences of events in terms of duration and magnitude ā the so-called flood history ā on sediment entrainment and transport are still poorly understood, thereby limiting the accuracy of predicting fluvial adjustments and the associated flood hazards. This proposal addresses the hypothesis that the condition and structure of the river bed fluctuates with flood history in a manner that can be predicted. The overall objective of the research is to quantify the influence of flood history on the mobility and transport rate of mixed sand-gravel river beds, by means of laboratory experiments. The aim is to investigate the process by which the flow field (e.g. turbulence) and the bed structure (roughness and grain exposure/protrusion) interact as a response to an imposed flood history. Multiple flood sequences will be simulated in a recirculating flume facility complemented by a state-of-the-art suite of monitoring equipment. The instrumentation will enable an integrated, high-resolution detection of both temporal and spatial dynamics of fluid flow (PIV and ADV techniques), sediment flux (bedload traps and image analysis), and bed topography adjustment (laser scanner). Once the physical processes at play will be understood, new empirical models will be developed to make incipient sediment motion and bedload rate prediction more accurate of the ones now available, being capable of including flood history effects. In order to explore how bed sediment mixture influences the flood history effects, the experiments will involve three gravel mixtures having varying proportion of sand. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/219294 |
Rivers and estuaries' |
| projects-372 |
748896 |
GRECO |
Groundwater effects on coastal ecosystems |
H2020 |
H2020-MSCA-IF-2016 |
MSCA-IF-2016 |
2017-04-01 |
2019-03-31 |
Completed |
ā¬ 000 173 076.00 |
Coastal lagoons host some of the most dynamic, diverse and productive ecosystems on Earth, which are subject to significant pressure from human activities. Hydrological land-ocean connectivity is a universally accepted important driver of coastal ecosystems, but the ecological effects of groundwater and associated solute fluxes to coastal systems remain poorly understood for most of the worldās shores. The overall goal of GRECO is to evaluate the role that groundwater fluxes play in the functioning and vulnerability of coastal lagoon ecosystems, by studying its effects on primary producers. This project encompasses a suite of innovative and interdisciplinary investigations aimed at (a) documenting the spatio-temporal distribution of groundwater-derived freshwater and nutrient inputs to lagoons and the exposure of benthic communities to groundwater-borne nutrients; and (b) evaluating the groundwater-derived effects on lagoon primary productivity by identifying the nutrient sources for primary production and the role of groundwater in lagoon ecological functioning. To these aims, two economically and ecologically important French lagoons with contrasting hydroecological conditions will be investigated by using new methods for coastal groundwater studies: 3D hydrodynamic numerical modeling and nutrient stable isotope analysis in primary producers. The novel understanding of groundwater-ecological interactions derived from this project will significantly advance the state-of-the art of groundwater studies in the coastal zone by providing direct evidences of ecological effects of groundwater discharge and by adding new methods to study groundwater implications. The results of GRECO will allow closing a current gap in the fundamental understanding of coastal processes, improving our capacity to sustainably manage hydrological and ecological resources in the coastal zone. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/748896 |
Coastal waters', 'Groundwater' |
| projects-373 |
835453 |
ToxMate |
ToxMate: Automated on-line and real-time monitoring of wastewater toxicity with ToxMate |
H2020 |
H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020 |
EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020 |
2018-11-01 |
2019-02-28 |
Completed |
ā¬ 000 071 429.00 |
Urban centres, industries and agriculture produce large volumes of wastewater; in addition, the current population growth, accelerated urbanization and economic development are increasing the quantity and pollution of wastewater globally. Being a by-product of human activities, wastewater contains chemical, biological and physical pollutants, so it must be treated to remove all contaminants before it is released in the environment. Releasing untreated or inadequately treated wastewater is dangerous and has harmful effects on human health, the environment, and economic activities. Water quality after wastewater purification varies over time, even and especially during one single day, but managers do not have the necessary tools to monitor these variations. Currently available methods based on bioassays or physical and chemical parameters require sampling, conservation and transport, and are based on spot-sampling (1-2 times/year). These methods are not able to provide information on temporal variability and have low efficiency, durability, and specificity; they are also slow in providing results (at least 72 hours) and canāt allow real time monitoring. To overcome these limitations, ViewPoint has developed ToxMate: a tool for the automated real-time, on-site and on-line monitoring of wastewater toxicity. It is based on the simultaneous analysis of the locomotor behaviour of 3 different species of aquatic invertebrates and it uses infrared light and powerful and precise cameras to record continuously the activity of the animals. The system is composed of 3 panels, each containing 16 animals, so 48 animals can be analysed at the same time and for up to 30 days. ToxMate is fast: it can provide a result on water toxicity in just one hour, so it allows public authorities and water managers to measure the variation in wastewater and identify abnormal episodes, thus allowing quick interventions to optimize water purification and control treatment plants more efficiently. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/835453 |
Urban water' |
| projects-374 |
881495 |
ToxMate |
Continuous real-time monitoring of water toxicity |
H2020 |
H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020 |
EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020 |
2020-01-01 |
2022-06-30 |
Completed |
ā¬ 001 763 593.75 |
Urban centres, industries and agriculture produce large volumes of wastewater; in addition, the current population growth, accelerated urbanization and economic development are increasing the quantity and pollution of wastewater globally. Being a by-product of human activities, wastewater contains chemical, biological and physical pollutants, so it must be treated to remove all contaminants before it is released in the environment. Releasing untreated or inadequately treated wastewater is dangerous and has harmful effects on human health, the environment, and economic activities.Water quality after wastewater purification varies over time, even and especially during one single day, but managers do not have the necessary tools to monitor these variations. Currently available methods based on bioassays or physical and chemical parameters require sampling, conservation and transport, and are based on spot-sampling (1-2 times/year). These methods are not able to provide information on temporal variability and have low efficiency, durability, and specificity; they are also slow in providing results (at least 72 hours) and canāt allow real time monitoring. To overcome these limitations, ViewPoint has developed ToxMate: a tool for the automated real-time, on-site and on-line monitoring of wastewater toxicity. It is based on the simultaneous analysis of the locomotor behaviour of 3 different species of aquatic invertebrates and it uses infrared light and powerful and precise cameras to record continuously the activity of the animals. The system is composed of 3 panels, each containing 16 animals, so 48 animals can be analysed at the same time and for up to 30 days. ToxMate is fast: it can provide a result on water toxicity in just one hour, so it allows public authorities and water managers to measure the variation in wastewater and identify abnormal episodes, thus allowing quick interventions to optimize water purification and control treatment plants more efficiently. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/881495 |
Urban water' |
| projects-375 |
951424 |
Water-Futures |
Smart Water Futures: designing the next generation of urban drinking water systems |
H2020 |
ERC-2020-SyG |
ERC-2020-SyG |
2021-08-01 |
2027-07-31 |
On going |
ā¬ 009 982 320.00 |
The world population living in urban settlements is expected to increase to 70% of 9.7 billion by 2050. Historically, as cities grew, new water infrastructures followed as needed. However, these developments had less to do with real planning than with reacting to crisis situations and urgent needs, due to the inability of urban water planners to consider long-term, deeply uncertain and ambiguous factors affecting urban development and water demand. These, coupled with increasingly uncertain climate conditions, indicate the need for a more holistic and intelligent decision-making framework for managing water infrastructures in the cities of the future.This project aims to develop a new theoretical framework for the allocation and development decisions on drinking water infrastructure systems, so that they are socially equitable, economically efficient and environmentally resilient, as advocated by the UN Agenda 2030, Sustainable Development Goals. The framework will integrate real-time monitoring and control with long-term robustness and flexibility-based pathway methods, and incorporate economic, social, ethical and environmental considerations for sustainable transitioning of urban water systems under deep uncertainty with multiple possible futures. The Water-Futures team will build on synergies from the four research groups, transcending methodologies from water science, systems and control theory, economics and decision science, and machine learning, into an integrated decision and control framework, to be implemented as an open-source research toolbox. The new science outcomes will be applied to three case studies exemplifying different types of urban water systems: a mature, relatively stable system; a mature and rapidly expanding system; and a relatively recent supply system in a developing country with high growth and special challenges, including limited resources, intermittent supply and high water losses. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/951424 |
Urban water' |
| projects-376 |
689271 |
WaterWorks2015 |
Water Works 2016-2020 in Support of the Water JPI (WaterWorks2015) - Sustainable water use in agriculture, to increase water use efficiency and reduce soil and water pollution |
H2020 |
H2020-WATER-2014-2015 |
WATER-3-2015 |
2016-01-01 |
2021-12-31 |
Completed |
ā¬ 020 524 924.00 |
The WaterWorks2015 proposal responds to the Horizon 2020 (H2020) Societal Challenge 5 2015 Call topic Water-3 2015: Stepping up EU research and innovation cooperation in the water area.WaterWorks2015 aims at pooling resources from the 32 participating research programme owners / managers of 23 countries to implement a joint call for proposals, with EU co-funding in the area of sustainable water use in agriculture and forestry. It's a collaboration between the Joint Programming Initiatives (JPIs), Water JPI āWater Challenges for a Changing Worldā and FACCE JPI āAgriculture, Food Security and Climate Changeā. Achieving a āsustainable water use in agriculture, to increase water use efficiency and reduce soil and water pollutionā is at the intersection of the two JPIs, contributing to the implementation of their respective Strategic Research Agendas. WaterWorks2015 includes 9 organisations from associated and third countries in an effort to reinforce international cooperation. Additional Activities will also be carried out to further support the implementation and strategy of the Water JPI.The overall aims include:ā¢ Increasing the value of relevant national and EU R&D funding by concerted and joint planning, implementation and evaluation of national research programmes; ā¢ Pooling financial resources from participating states towards the definition and implementation of a Co-funded transnational and multi-disciplinary Call for research and innovation proposals. The aim of the Call will be to support the implementation of initiatives and environmental policies, in particular those related to water and agriculture & forestry, as a way to increase water use efficiency and to reduce soil and water pollution;ā¢ Overcoming the fragmentation of European water and agriculture/forestry-related research and innovation activities; ā¢ Supporting the implementation and the development of the two Joint Programming Initiatives, seeking synergies in overlapping research issues. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/689271 |
Urban water' |
| projects-377 |
854782 |
M-NBS |
Smart, flexible, decentralized water treatment |
H2020 |
H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020 |
EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020 |
2019-02-01 |
2019-06-30 |
Completed |
ā¬ 000 071 429.00 |
Although in EU countries, the access to sanitation is universal in urban areas, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA), all belonging to the European WHO Region, lack adequate access to water services. Indeed, more than 4.3 million people still rely on surface water as their primary source, posing severe risks to health. 90% of people using surface water live in rural locations. The main reason of this inequality is of economic nature. Given the low economic capacity of the mentioned areas in public infrastructure, the investments in water services are addressed at the highly populated areas. Ayala is a SME company with 8 employees whose mission is to bring the knowledge in the field of phytoremediation to an operative level by creating tools to restore balance to the environment employing natural mechanisms without consuming energy. With this goal, we aim to developed a modular Natural Biological Systemā¢ (M-NBS), a sustainable natural technology for treating sewage and waste streams, rehabilitating affected water bodies and rebalancing watersheds. The system, which has been successfully applied NBS in more than 100 large scale natural sanitation and remediation projects as non-mobile unit, is based on a proprietary phytoremediation technology capable to treat 7 to 70 m3 water/day per cubic meter of the system depending on the water pollution level. Our goal is to achieve a market penetration for M-NBS in Eastern European and neighboring countries so that we manage to service 5 % of 62 million people in the region without access to sanitation Europe in the next 5 years. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/854782 |
Urban water' |
| projects-378 |
858805 |
ANAERGY |
Advanced Multistage Sequential Wastewater Treatment Technology |
H2020 |
H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020 |
EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020 |
2019-06-01 |
2021-09-30 |
Completed |
ā¬ 001 748 750.00 |
Enhancing of wastewater treatment technologies is a key goal of the EU to achieve sustainable and circular economy. Due to the required high investment and operational costs of current technologies, many industries find more economical to pay fines for direct discharges of polluted effluents than to treat them. Particularly, the heterogeneity and seasonality of the agro-food sector produce a broad variety of wastewater streams which claim for more efficient and customizable solutions to meet with increasingly stringent wastewater regulations.Within this context, Ingeobras and Proycon have developed ANAERGY, a modulable wastewater treatment system that integrates for the first time: anaerobic, aerobic and advanced oxidation stages. The exclusive design of the anaerobic digester, including patented PUREMUSTĀ® technology, enable to reach high pollutants elimination rates (95-99%) and production of biogas (16 m3/m3). Also, its small size and flexibility allow reducing installation and operational costs, together with a tailored response to end-userĀ“s requirements. Following their collaboration for 12 years, Ingeobras will manage technical upgrades, assembly, commercialization and installation, while Proycon will be in charge of manufacturing the digesters. The adoption of ANAERGY by industries lead to major economic savings by eliminating wastewater discharge fees and reducing energy costs (biogas ā80% energy needs). The benefits that ANAERGY will bring to the market will make the proposed project profitable with a ROI of 6.6 over 4 years and a payback period by the 1st quarter of the second year. Likewise, by improving current technology, ANAERGY will decrease water pollution, increase water reusability and strengthen renewable energy share. Together, these actions generate social, environmental and economic benefits for all society, contributing to overall well-being, water and food security, and sustainable development. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/858805 |
Urban water' |
| projects-379 |
656917 |
River-HMV |
River hydraulics, morphology, and vegetation: A case for improved knowledge and numerical model capabilities |
H2020 |
H2020-MSCA-IF-2014 |
MSCA-IF-2014-EF |
2015-10-01 |
2017-09-30 |
Completed |
ā¬ 000 180 277.20 |
The interdisciplinary knowledge and ability for river managers to effectively predict flood risks, restore rivers, and assess future alterations are currently restricted to the limited understanding of how river hydraulics, morphology, and vegetation alter a riverās planform, effect sediment mobility, and control the surrounding habitats. To improve this knowledge and capabilities, this research seeks to i) use physical model flume experiments to quantify the hydraulic, morphologic, and vegetation interactions of a braided channel as well as investigate the use of manipulated channel avulsion as an innovative method to increase a riverās floodplain conveyance, ii) to quantify the accuracy of a cutting-edge numerical modelās simulations, and iii) to improve the numerical modelās functionality. Through increased knowledge, improved model capabilities, and potentially identifying a new technique to increase a degraded riverās floodplain dynamics, this research can improve the efficacy of river managers around the world. In particular, Europe could utilize the contributions of this research to help meet the ecological-morphological aspects of the Water Framework Directives and Flood Directives and to restore many of the heavily altered rivers of the European Alps. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/656917 |
Rivers and estuaries' |
| projects-380 |
676027 |
SYSTEM-RISK |
A Large-Scale Systems Approach to Flood Risk Assessment and Management |
H2020 |
H2020-MSCA-ITN-2015 |
MSCA-ITN-2015-ETN |
2016-01-01 |
2019-12-31 |
Completed |
ā¬ 003 884 131.08 |
Flood risk systems are characterised by physical and socio-economic processes acting at different space-time scales, by non-stationary and non-linear behaviour, and by a significant degree of interdependence between processes. This may lead to surprising developments and unanticipated side effects of risk reduction measures. A novel systems approach is needed that captures this dynamics and accounts for the interactions of the system components. We propose the ETN SYSTEM-RISK which aims at developing this systems approach for large spatial scales, from large river basins to the European scale. The research concept of SYSTEM-RISK builds upon the entire risk chain, from the source of hazard to consequences, and analyses the interactions and temporal dynamics in flood risk systems. In this way, the linear risk chain is replaced by a more realistic approach with interdependent links. SYSTEM-RISK exposes early-stage researchers (ESR) to all knowledge domains along the risk chain, and gives them, at the same time, the opportunity to build specific research profiles. The interdisciplinary setting and the focus on interactions and spatio-temporal dynamics of risk system will expand the mental models and lead to a new generation of creative scientists, able to transfer their systems perspective from flood risk systems to other fields. We bring together internationally leading groups in flood research with institutions from the non-academic main sectors exploiting flood research ā consultancy, insurance industry and governmental sector. Close interaction will support the ESRs in developing trans-disciplinary skills with an understanding of both fundamental science and application. SYSTEM-RISK will deliver a suite of methods and tools for assessing and managing flood risk across large regions. This will be of highest importance for the EU Flood Directive and Strategy on Adaptation for Climate Change due to the EUās key role in dealing with risks transcending national borders. |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/676027 |
Rivers and estuaries', 'Urban water' |
