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STREAM Research Project Factsheets, produced in the framework of the Water Technol-ogy Watch, aim to identify the state of the art of water technology research in Europe.

STREAM realized over 110 factsheets about recent projects from FP6, FP7, LIFE+, CIP, Eureka, Cost and JRC and Eranet with a starting date after 1.1.2006 to col-lect information about their actions, current status and achieved/intended results.

STREAM disseminates research results by further collaborating with projects..

Please find attached the seperate factsheets of the projects, alphabetically listed below.

ACQWA AG_UAS ALGATEC AquaFit4Use ANSPDW AQUAGEN AQUAlity AQUAMAR AQUAREHAB AQUATEST A.S.A.P AWARE BRIDGE CapWa CARBOSORB CB-WR-MED CECILIA CHILTURPOL2 CLARA ClearWaterPMPC CLIMAFRICA CROPWAT DROPS DryCloset EKOROB END-O-SLUDG ENORASIS ENSAT

EPIBATHE EPI-WATER ESTAB EUROWET ExchargeHYD FIM FRAME FISH-CWUS FLOW-AID FORMAN GABARDINE GOODWATER GREENCLIMEADAPT GREENLYSIS HIGHARCS HYDRATE HYDROBIONETS HYDROCLIMATE- STRATEGYRIGA HYDRONET ICARUS ICFLOAT INNOVA-MED INTER-WASTE KNAPPE KOLISOON LAGOONS LENVIS MACRO-CLEAN

MARMALADE MEDDMAN METALWATER MODELKEY NATIOMEM NEPTUNE OILWET PACEMod PALM PHARMAFILTER PREPARED PRO_FLOODPLAIN PUREWATER PURIFAST QUALIWATER REBECCA REMOVALS RISKBASE ROSAROUTES SafeWat Saph Pani SEDBARCAH SEFCUMPAQ SEMEAU SGDBALTIC SHARP SIRIUS

SOWAEUMED SPI-Water STEP-WISE STORAGE SUSTAIN TRUST TT4TXT UR-Flood VOCLESS WASTE WATER WADI WAHARA WASTERED WATACLIC WATER CHANGE WATER CoRe WATER Water2Adapt WaterBee DA WEBAP WETPUR WHATER WINEC WINENVIRONMENT WIZ WQM WW4ENVIRONMENT WW-SIP XEROCHORE

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The overarching topics the project addresses:2. Surface water5. Water resources management10. Water scarcity and droughts11. Energy in the water industry12. Floods16. Irrigation17. Water consumption18. Other: ecological aspects

A short summary of the project:The ACQWA project is a 5-year project under EU FP7 that began in October 2008. It is made up of a 37-partner consortium from 11 European countries, and 3 non-European countries (Chile and Argentina, and Kyrgyzstan). The project addresses the vulnerability of water resources in mountain regions where snow and ice are a major component of the hydrological cycle. Indeed, water in these regions will be vulnerable in a warmer climate because of reduced volumes of snow and ice. The project is based on the use, the refinement, and the development of numeri-cal models to help understand interlinks between climate system components, in particular climate, hydrology, snow and ice, and vegetation, and to predict the evolution of these systems over the next 50 years. In addition, the ACQWA project conducts assessments of the potential impacts of changes in hydrological regimes on extreme events, the energy sector (hydropower), agriculture and tourism. Advance estimations of impacts in terms of water availability, seasonality and qual-ity, will help in the identification of possible rivalries among economic actors, in the context of a resource that may become rarer in a warmer climate and thus to assess how such conflicts could be resolved through improved water governance. The AC-QWA project will also draft proposals for adaptation options in order to minimize the more adverse climate-generated risks. In this context, policy makers should also be aware that changing patterns of climate in mountain areas can alter hydrology not only in the source regions but far downstream. The upstream-downstream (in terms of water) and upland-lowland (in terms of economic development) implica-tions of water resources originating in mountains will undoubtedly be a key to suc-cessful adaptation options.

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Project acronym ACQWAProject title Assessing Climate Impacts on

the Quantity and Quality of WaterStart and end date 01/10/2008 – 30/09/2013Funding programme FP7

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The main objectives of the project:• To assess the vulnerability of water resources in mountain regions where snow and ice are a major component of the hydrological cycle • To use, refine and develop numerical models to help understand interlinks between climate system components• To predict the evolution of climate, cryosphere, biosphere and water systems over the next 50 years • To assess the potential impacts on economic sectors such as energy, tourism and agriculture • To identify possible conflicts of interest among economic actors, in the context of a resource that may become rarer in a warmer climate • To assess how such conflicts could be resolved through improved water governance• To propose adaptation options for risk minimization

Link to EU Water Policy:1. Water Framework Directive

The project is focused to these stakeholders:2. Research sector3. Policy sector5. End users and General public

The main results the project already achieved:• Projections of changing water regimes in a warming climate• Identification of key impacts on economic sectors where water is essential to those sectors• Identification of shortfalls in today’s water governance that could exacerbate problems of water use in a changing climate• Suggestions for adaptation to avoid adverse impacts of climatic change on water resources

The main deliverables, available dissemination material and education mate-rial from the project:Dissemination material:• 100 Articles in peer-reviewed journals• Newsletters, Reports, Posters• Website, Database



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• Beniston, M., Stoffel, M., and Hill, M., 2011: Impacts of climatic change on water and natural hazards in the Alps: Can current water governance cope with future chal-lenges? Examples from the European “ACQWA” project. Environmental Science and Policy• Beniston, M., 2010: Impacts of climatic change on water and associated economic activities in the Swiss Alps. Journal of Hydrology,

Dissemination activities and events planned within the project:• Conferences• Media advertising (TV, radio)• WorkshopsIn Austria, Italy, Spain and Switzerland

Organisations in the consortium

Name of institution Country RoleInstitute for Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva CH Coordinator

Agroscope ART, Zurich CH Partner

Arpa Piemonte Area Previsione e Moni-toraggio Ambientale (ARPAPMNT) IT Partner

Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione dell’Ambiente della Valle d’Aosta (AR-PAVDA)

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University of Natural Resources and Ap-plied Life Sciences (BOKU), University of Vienna

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Center for Advanced Studies in Arid Zones (CEAZA) CL Partner

Center for Scientific Studies (CECS) CL Partner



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Project coordinator Martin Beniston, Markus Stoffel

e-mail address [email protected], [email protected]

Project website www.acqwa.ch

http://www.unige.ch/climate/Publications/Beniston/ESP2011.pdfhttp://www.unige.ch/climate/Publications/Beniston/ESP2011.pdfhttp://www.unige.ch/climate/Publications/Beniston/ESP2011.pdfhttp://www.unige.ch/climate/Publications/Beniston/ESP2011.pdfhttp://www.unige.ch/climate/Publications/Beniston/JHydro2010.pdfhttp://www.unige.ch/climate/Publications/Beniston/JHydro2010.pdfhttp://www.unige.ch/climate/Publications/Beniston/JHydro2010.pdfmailto:Martin.Beniston%40unige.ch?subject=mailto:Markus.Stoffel%40unige.ch?subject=www.acqwa.ch

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Name of institution Country RoleCentre d’Etudes de la Neige MétéoFrance (CEN) FR Partner

Instituto Torcuato Di Tella (ITDT) AR Partner

CESI RICERCA SpA, Dipartimento Ambi-ente e Sviluppo Sostenibile (CESI-R)

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Center of Excellence, University of L’Aquila (UNIAQ) IT Partner

National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) FR Partner

Pyrenean Institute Of Ecology, Spanish National Research Council ES Partner

Compagnie Valdôtaine des Eaux (CVA) IT Partner

Divisione Generazione e Energy Man-agement, ENEL IT Partner

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich CH Partner

The Safe Mountain Foundation (FONDMS) IT Partner

The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) IT Partner

Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISAC-CNR)

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Kyrgyz National Academy of Science (KNAS) KG Partner

Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (CEA-LSCE)

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Monterosastar S.r.l. IT Partner

Max Planck Institute for Meteorology DE Partner

Gran Paradiso National Park (PNGP) IT Partner

Department of Hydraulic and Environ-mental Engineer and Topography, Politecnico di Milano

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Name of institution Country RoleInstitute of Geography, University of Bern CH Partner

School of Geography, University of Birmingham UK Partner

Graduate Institute of International Studies and Development (HEID) CH Partner

Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change , University of Graz

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School of Social Sciences, University of Dundee UK Partner



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The overarching topics the project addresses:2. Surface water5. Water resources management

A short summary of the project:AG_UAS is a Life project engaged in sustainable water management on a regional level via Unmanned Aerial System-based Aerial Teledetection (UAS). Its objective is to show the technical-economic feasibility of a new Aerial Teledetection methodol-ogy, to improve global water management and contribute to its sustainable use.

It proposes to provide solutions to the problems that exist with respect to the use of water in: Resource utilisation (efficiency of hydraulic infrastructures, irrigation op-timisation, etc.), Safety of mine exploitation storage facilities, Resource protection (dumping, thermal pollution, etc.), Efficient control of the water status and Water resource inventory. To do this, a technology that already exists (UAS- VTOL) will be developed to offer us spatial information (images).

The missions will be executed within a demonstration plan that will include more than 140 demonstration flights, which will be carried out on surface water masses, irrigated land and infrastructures of the Foral Community of Navarra, seeking the most representative points of these infrastructures.

The main objectives of the project:• To test two innovative airborne remote sensing systems, with (i) a high resolution thermal infrared camera and (ii) a multispectral camera – both using an unmanned helicopter as an aerial platform;• To demonstrate the economical and technical feasibility of the tool, particularly in the fields of: (i) detection of leaks and seepage in hydraulic infrastructures and waste storage facilities, (ii) identification of water needs in irrigated fields, (iii) de-tection of discharges into river basins, (iv) detection of thermal pollution in water masses (v) monitoring of the ecological and chemical status of surface waters, and (vi) detection of springs and water extraction for inventory purposes.

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Project acronym AG_UASProject title Sustainable water management at

regional scale through Airborne Remote Sensing based on

Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)Start and end date 1/10/2010 - 30 /09/2013Funding programme LIFE+

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• To study (based on the high resolution downscaling results) the impacts of cli-mate change on agriculture and forestry, carbon cycle and selected species (WP6) • To study (based on the high resolution downscaling results) the impacts of cli-mate change on health and air quality (photochemistry of air pollution, aerosols) (WP7)

Link to EU water policy:1. Water Framework Directive

The project is focused to these stakeholders:3. Policy sector5. End users and General public6. Other:• Environment departments of regional governments• River basin authorities• Managing integral water cycle entities• Irrigation companies / communities• Companies collaborating with the administration in the status control of water• Academics

The main results the project already achieved:At the moment, two airborne remote sensing systems are already completed, but the project continues working in the prototypes improvement. The Demonstration Plan, with flights along the Canal de Navarra, has recently begun to be executed.

The main deliverables, available dissemination material and education mate-rial from the project:One of the project’s specific objectives is to develop a procedures manual to effec-tively apply the new methodology on sustainable water management, supporting the development and application of Directives 2000/60/EC and 2006/21/EC.

Another one is to promote a Dissemination Plan at national and European levels, through several actions of communication along three years: development and dissemination of a brochure and a video, presentation of the project in 7 events, organization of 4 workshops in Europe, organization of a European seminar, organ-ization of a demonstration in Pamplona, organization of a presentation of project results….

Dissemination material is available on the project website:• Brochure• Video

Dissemination activities and events planned within the project:• Presentation of the project in events: International Water Association (14 June 2011), Irrigations National Congress (1week June 2011), 2 events in 2012 not de-fined yet.

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management• Pamplona 2012• Organization of a demonstration in Pamplona (2013)• Organization of a presentation of project results in Pamplona (2013)




Name of institution Country Type of institution Role

Navarra Industrial Association ES Private sector Coordinator

Gobierno de Navarra (Departamento de Desarrollo Rural y Medio Ambiente)

ES Public sector Partner

Riegos de Navarra S.A. ES Public sector Partner

Centro de Recursos Medioambientales de Navarra ES Public sector Partner

Contacts

Project coordinator Irene Eslava

e-mail address [email protected]

Project website www.Lifeaguas.es

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The overarching topics the project addresses:2. Waste waterThe treatment of olive washing water with a photobioreactor and a membrane module for its reuse in the production process

A short summary of the project:ALGATEC is a “Research for SME” project funded under the FP7 Programmeof the European Commission with a duration of 28 months. Its ob-jective is to develop a cost-efficient system for the on-site treatmentand reuse of washing water generated in small-medium olive oil mills, with high pollutant content, by means of an affordable and compact photobioreactor using microalgae followed by a membrane module, capable to reuse the majority of the drinkable water used in the process of olives washing. Furthermore, both economical and environmental benefits would be achieved by solving the the problem of the disposal of wastewater from olive oil mills, re-using the washing water and therefore reducing the overall volume of waste-water generated. The current methods of wastewater disposal increase the overall production costs, and additionally they are also environmentally unac-ceptable and extremely inefficient in terms of water use. Thus, the proposed project aimed for the participating SMEs to improve their competitive posi-tion opening a market of about 12,000 olive oil producers only in Europe.

To achieve the project objectives, ALGATEC created a procedure for the treatment and reuse of washing water from the olive cleaning process. The ALGATEC system included the pre-treatment of the washing water (preliminary filtration), the main treatment based on the photobioreactor using microalgae and the last treatment based on membrane filtration.



Project acronym ALGATECProject title Biotechnological recycle of olive mills

washing water by microalgaeStart and end date 15/4/2009 – 14/8/2011Funding programme FP7

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The main objectives of the project:Overall objectives:• To provide an affordable technical solution for reducing the consumption of drink-able water in the olives washing process by 90 % and increasing the overall water efficiency of the process by 80 %.• To diminish the overall effluent of polluted water produced in olive oil mills, reduc-ing the wastewater management costs and the environmental impact of wastes.• To increase the competitiveness of the participant SMEs and the European olive oil industry through a cost-effective WW treatment and an improved water man-agement. Scientific and technological objectives:• To establish a cost-effective wastewater treatment and drinkable water recycling system for olives washing water.• To build two prototypes of the photobioreactor using microalgae, adapting a pat-ented technology to the specific needs of the treatment of the olive oil washing wastewater.• To collect information about the main requirements for the system to be installed in the end-user industry, analysing the overall situation of producers in different EU countries (i.e. production amount and duration, WW). Socio-economic objectives:• To reduce production costs in the olive oil sector through recycling and reutilisa-tion of water (increased water efficiency).• To answer the current need of increasing the sustainability of European agricul-tural sectors by implementing a solution that will enhance the current water and wastewater management systems.• To enable the olive oil producers in Europe keep its leadership in the olive oil mar-ket, with non-European countries entering the market.• To increase employment in the sector by capacity building in state-of-the-art technologies and creation of new jobs in the design and construction of the pro-posed systems.

Link to EU Water Policy:1. Water Framework Directive2. Groundwater Directive8. Industrial Emission Directive11. Water Scarcity and Drought Policy

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have been efficient in removing the pollution load of olive mill washing water and producing water of drinking quality (bacteriological analysis were beyond the ac-ceptable for potable water), that could be re-used within an olive mill. Therefore, the technical objectives were achieved as foreseen. This achievement would solve, at least partially, the problem associated to the disposal of WW from olive mills, re-ducing the overall volume of wastewater, with both economical and environmental benefits. The commercial system investment costs are expected to be significantly lower than those of the pilot plant and could be easily justify a short payback period. The O&M costs were a bit higher compared to the common adopted method of open evaporation ponds. Nevertheless, there is room for decreasing them when optimising some operational parameters and working with fresh WW. In addition, authorities are looking for alternative methods to evaporation ponds due the prob-lems they generated. Moreover, the EU Directives are more and more strict on the allowed management routes of such wastes. Last but not least, the price of potable water is expected to be higher in the future, especially in the most important pro-ducing countries. Pre-competitive results were obtained during the ALGATEC which are a robust base for the further development of a commercial competitive solution. In a near future market, the ALGATEC technology will be considered as an alternative solution for the reuse of WW in the food industry.

The main deliverables, available dissemination material and education mate-rial from the project:The project was focused on the SMEs and the material developed was quite gen-eral to avoid any conflict with the commercial interests of the SMEs. The material produced is uploaded in the Public Library of the algatec website, under ALGATEC documents (poster and flyers)

Dissemination activities and events planned within the project:None, the project ended in August 2011.



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Name of institution Country Type of Institution Role

Bioazul S.L. ES Private Sector Coordinator

Valorsabio, Unipessoal LDA. PT Private Sector SME

ISITEC GMBH DE Private Sector SME

Biotmicrogen S.L. ES Private Sector SME

Cooperative Agricola Nuestra Señora de los Desamparados ES Private Sector

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Union of Agricultural Coop-eratives of Peza of Eraklion Prefecture

GR Private Sector SME – End user

University of Granada ES University RTD

Univesita Degli Studi della Tuscia IT University RTD

National Agricultural Foundation GR Research Institute RTD

TTZ Bremerhaven DE Research Institute RTD



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Project website www.algatec.net

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The overarching topics the project addresses:8. Drinking water

A short summary of the project:The advanced system for purification of drinking water was developed and tested. The pilot system was constructed and used to prepare for transfer to production. The system will be based on recent achievements in nanotechnology and research in the field of denitrification of ground water. All good things will stay in drinking water (minerals and ..). With nano-filtration material we can eliminate Escherichia coli (E. coli), all type of viruses, all heavy metals. Developing better filtration material insure 99,999999% of water purity. All filtration systems are constructed and tested for household use, tourists and people which travel and they can ensure safety water for all people without energy and big pressure drop.

The main objectives of the project:1. Testing and developing better nano filtration materials2. Design filtration systems for people to eliminate disuses.3. Made combinations nano filtration with solar energy4. Membrane bio reactor – elimination of pesticides and nitrate 5. Efficiency and economy with new type of filtration6. Filtration without energy and very small drop of pressure

Link to EU Water Policy:1. Water Framework Directive2. Groundwater Directive5. Drinking Water Directive

The project is focused to these stakeholders:4. Private sector – business5. End users and General public



Project acronym ANSPDWProject title Advanced nano-technological system for

purification of drinking waterStart and end date 1/1/2008 - 1/1/2011Funding programme EUREKA

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The main results the project already achieved:∙ New nano-filtration material with aluminium particles and silver as disinfector with efficiency 99,999999% (elimination of bacteria, viruses and heavy metals)∙ Household DUO and TRIO systems in dimension 5,10 and 20 inch for protection and improving the taste of drinking water∙ Mobile nano device power by solar energy

The main deliverables, available dissemination material and education mate-rial from the project:∙ With this nano filtration material you can catch viruses in water and then you can exam it for medical use (nano filtration material without silver).∙ We can measure zeta potecial and find ideal speed of drinking water trough filter material.∙ Different cartridges give the system different life time∙ Elimination of nitrates

Dissemination activities and events planned within the project:1. Scientific events where we will talk about results of testing in different condition of drinking water2. Market research in different countries – opportunities for nano-filters



HTZ Velenje, I.P., D.O.O. SI Private sector Coordinator

The Institute of Strength Physics and Materials ISPMS RU Research institute Partner

Chemical Institute Ljubljana SI Research institute Partner

Vuwh Bratislava SK Research institute Partner

ZZV Celje SI Public sector Partner



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The overarching topics the project addresses:1. Groundwater2. Surface water4. Waste water treatment 7. Monitoring and analysis 11. Energy in the water industry 14. Water technologies 15. Desalination17. Water consumption19. Water re-use 20. Industrial water management

A short summary of the project:Sustainable water use in industry is the goal of AquaFit4Use, leading to a substan-tial reduction of fresh water needs and environmental impact in an economic way.

The overall objectives of AquaFit4Use are: The development and implementation of new, reliable, cost-effective technologies, tools and methods for sustainable water supply, use and discharge in the main water consuming industries paper, food, textiles and chemistry in order to significantly reduce water use, mitigate environmental impact and produce and apply water qualities in accordance with industrial own specifications (fit-for-use) from all possible sources, and contributing to a far-going closure of the water cycle in a economical, sustainable and safe way while improving their product quality and process stability.

Water fit-for-use is the basis for sustainable water use; the integrated approach a must. Tools will be developed to define and control water quality. The heart of AquaFit4Use however is the development of new cross-sectorial technologies, with a focus at biofouling and scaling prevention, the treatment of saline streams, disinfection and the removal of specific substances. By intensive co-operation between the industries, the knowledge and the technologies developed in this project will be broadly transferred and implemented.



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The main objectives of the project:The overall objectives of AquaFit4Use are: The development and implemen-tation of new, reliable, cost-effective technologies, tools and methods for sustainable water supply, use and discharge in the main water consumingindustries paper, food, textiles and chemistry in order to significantly reduce water use, mitigate environmental impact and produce and apply water qualities in accordance with industrial own specifications (fit-for-use) from all possible sources, and contributing to a far-going closure of the water cycle in a economical, sustainable and safe way while improving their product quality and process stability.

Dissemination activities and events planned within the project:A lot of dissemination activities have taken place by website, newsletters, con-gresses, workshops, etc. (Recently a video has been produced by the support of the STREAM project).The most important activity of the project was the end-congress that took place in Bruges at 8 and 9 May.

What dissemination material is already available from the project?See the project website for video, public reports and news.A brochure on the project is also available.

Link to EU water policy:1. Water Framework Directive 8. Industrial Emission Directive (+ IPPC) 10. Nitrates Directive11. Water Scarcity and Drought Policy

The project is focused to these stakeholders:4. Private sector – business5. End users and General public

With 23 of the 34 partners being industries, both suppliers and end-users there is a strong focus at applied research solving real problems and demonstrating them in implementation on site.

The main results the project already achieved:New technologies are developed for solving specific problems in sustainable water use. These new technologies, but also combinations of technologies are demonstrated at 12 pilot locations. (See also the website)

The main deliverables, available dissemination material and education mate-rial from the project:High number of new technologies, tools for water management and reports on the results of testing at laboratory and pilot scale.



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Project coordinator Willy van Tongeren


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TNO NL Research Institute Coordinator

Papiertechnische Stiftung DE Research institute Partner

Complutense University of Madrid ES University Partner

VITO BE Research Institute Partner

CEIT ES Research Institute Partner

Veolia FR Private sector Partner

University of Maribor SI University Partner

ENEA IT Research Institute Partner

Nestlé Water Management & Technology FR Private sector Partner

Perstorp SE Private sector Partner

DHI DK Research Institute Partner

Cons. Hijos de M Sanchez Besarte ES Private sector Partner

ATMSA ES Private sector Partner

SAPPI NL Private sector Partner

Unilever NL Private sector Partner

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BASF BE Private sector Partner

Tekstina SI Private sector Partner

Svilanit SI Private sector Partner

Aquatest CZ Private sector Partner

Alpro BE Private sector Partner

Hamburger Rieger DE Private sector Partner

Uniresearch NL Private sector Partner

Holmen Paper Madrid S.L. ES Private sector Partner

OBEM S.p.A. IT Private sector Partner

INOTEX spol. s.r.o. CZ Research Institute Partner

IRSPIN SI NGO Partner

EUCETSA BE NGO Partner

PCCell GmbH D Private sector Partner

Vermicon DE Private sector Partner

EnviroChemie PL Private sector Partner

EnviroChemie PL Private sector Partner

Wedeco DE Private sector Partner

Logisticon NL Private sector Partner

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The overarching topics the project addresses:Wave Energy ConversionWater-hydraulic Power Take-Off System

A short summary of the project:A power take-off system (PTO) that uses water hydraulics for fluid power is being developed for offshore wave energy converters (WEC) as an environmentally acceptable alternative to conventional hydraulic oils. The PTO system, called AquaGen, brings together a consortium of European SMEs, engineering consultants and researchers who together will develop and deploy a prototype system onto an existing WEC. The benefits of the AquaGen approach are:• Improved energy conversion• Increased availability and so extended periods between maintenance• Reduced operating costs• Reduced risk of environmental damage due to unexpected leakage of the hydraulic fluid.

These challenges require the AquaGen PTO to develop a number of innovative designs that include a novel light weight elastomeric power take-off system, a variable speed electricity generator and an adaptive blade turbine

The main objectives of the project:• Design, build and test a novel water-based hydraulic Power Take-Off system (PTO). Integrate the hydraulic system with a new design of variable pitch turbine that con-verts the fluid power through the turbine into electricity.• Install and test a scaled version of the PTO on an existing wave energy device to test its performance.



Project acronym AQUAGENProject title Aquagen – A Water-based Power Take-Off System

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Link to EU Water Policy:14. Other: The project is developing an environmentally friendly renewable energy device

The main results the project already achieved:• The mechanical design for the PTO has been developed and evaluated using the environmental and sea-state data. This has been used together with the design parameters for the hydraulic system to model and analyse the complete mechani-cal and hydraulic system, resulting in an optimised design of the PTO system.• The project has specified pump designs and sizes, and outline designs for the novel hydraulic pump structures. Design parameters for the attachment and link-ages of several different elastomeric PTO units have been prepared, and designs proposed for these linkages.

The main deliverables, available dissemination material and education mate-rial from the project:The lead beneficiaries are attending several events including conferences and ex-hibitions. They are also on local and national radio and television.

Dissemination activities and events planned within the project:We currently have a periodic newsletter that is available from the project website.

Contacts

Project coordinator Gerry McNulty


Project website www.aquagen-project.eu


Name of institution Country Type of Institution RoleBHR Group UK Private Sector Coordinator

DexaWave Energy ApS DK Private Sector Partner

National Technical University of Athens GR University Partner

University of Minho PT University Partner

Checkmate Flexible Engineering LLP UK Private Sector Partner

Norsistemas PT Private Sector Partner



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The overarching topics the project addresses:2. Waste waterDevelopment of a new type of sensor to be used to improve management of the bio-filters in recirculation aquaculture plants. Good practice and management methods will be developed as well.

A short summary of the project:The AQUAlity project will develop standardised recirculation aquaculture system platform technology• Control system - Intelligent, built-in knowledge of optimum conditions for farmed species - Open source software - Open source hardware - Automatic - lowers the skill levels needed to successfully manage the aquaculture system• Bio-filter condition monitoring• Multi-sensor• Modular/configurable multi-sensor. Much lower cost than equivalent cost of individual sensors• In-situ permanent measurement of ammonia, nitrite, oxygen, carbon dioxide, suspended solids, flow rate, pH, temperature, and for saltwater – salinity.• Shared access to a database of best practice conditions for the farmed species will allow the farmer to determine where they are in comparison to best practice and learn what changes might be required to improve. Database to be accessed via the SME-AGs submission of anonymous data of automatically logged data from the control system of: - Water quality measurements - Life cycle environmental conditions - Coupled to farmer supplied data of growth rate, yield etc



Project acronym AQUAlityProject title Multi-sensor automated water quality

monitoring and control system for continuous use in recirculation aquaculture systems


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The main objectives of the project:To develop a new ammonium sensor to be used in bio-filters

The project is focused to these stakeholders:1. Non-governmental organizations 2. Research sector4. Private sector – business5. End users and General public

The main results the project already achieved:The project has just started, there are no significant results at the moment

The main deliverables, available dissemination material and education mate-rial from the projectDeliverables and materials will be achieved at a later stage of the project.

Contacts

Project coordinator Marco Frederiksen


Project website www.aqualityproject.com

Organisations in the consortiumName of institution Country Type of Institution RoleEUROFISH DK Public Sector Coordinator

İzmir Su Urunleri Yetistiricileri Birligi TR NGO Partner

Stowarzyszenie Producentów Ryb Łososiowatych PL NGO Partner

Asociatia Nationala a Producatorilor din Pescarie ROMFISH RO NGO Partner

Associazione Piscicoltori Italiani IT NGO Partner

Nederlandse Vereniging van viswerkers NL NGO Partner

Artec Aqua NO Private Sector Partner

Oxyguard DK Private Sector Partner

Ejstrupholm Dambrug DK Private Sector Partner

Truchas de la Alcarria ES Private Sector Partner

Nofima Marin NO Research Institute RTD

Philips Electronics Nederland NL Private Sector RTD

The UK Intelligent Systems Research Institute UK Private Sector RTD



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The overarching topics the project addresses:3. Surface water6. Marine water

AQUAMAR project is developing downstream services turning Marine Core Service (MCS) products into Water Quality services, demanded by end user. AQUAMAR pro-vides Earth Observation (EO) based water quality services to support European and national monitoring agencies and industries operating in coastal waters.

A short summary of the project:Water quality (WQ) is a focus of monitoring agencies and the public, and it is subject of several European Directives and regional conventions. The AquaMar project will develop and provide downstream services turning Marine Core Service products into WQ services, demanded by end user. The team is composed mainly of SMEs (70%) supported by key scientific partners. The objective is to create a reference technical and organisational body at European level for WQ services, organised as an open partnership, through: • methodological research extending traditional WQ portfolio along 5 novel prod-uct lines • turning these into pre-operational services, including adaptation to MCS • establishing a validation & quality evolution process and data model • evaluate the services with end users through service delivery trials • transferring the developed services to other services providers (SP) through a well defined process (technical and organisational framework).

The service portfolio includes (1) indicators for the reporting requirement of the Water Framework Directive and the European Marine Strategy, (2) algal bloom fore-casting, (3) support to large scale marine infrastructure, (4) services supporting the Bathing Water Directive monitoring, (5) aquaculture precision farming. Aquamar is the R&D branch of MarCoast project which delivers services for the op-erational European monitoring of marine water quality.



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The main objectives of the project:The main objective of the project is to build a reference technical body at European scale for water quality services, service quality management and services valida-tion; improved products and novel services; 1. To conduct R&D activity to develop novel downstream services:- Indicators for the reporting requirement of the Water Framework Directive and the Marine Strategy Framework Directive - Harmful Algal bloom monitoring- Support to large scale marine infrastructure- Services supporting the Bathing Water Directive monitoring- Aquaculture precision farming;2. To build a sustained technical collaboration with the Marine Core Service for end-to-end services, validation and quality optimisation; 3. To federate the User community at large;4. To propose, agree and implement a service quality validation process; 5. To propose, agree and implement a process to harmonize service quality evolu-tion;6. To disseminate best practices to the service provider’s community at large:- R&D results on information products - Service validation process

Link to EU Water Policy:1. Water Framework Directive9. Marine Strategy Framework Directive

The project is focused to these stakeholders:2. Research sector 3. Policy sector4. Private sector – business

The main results the project already achieved:Cross-cutting activities performed in the following domains: Improved basic WQ products; Geostatistics on biogeophysical parameters; Distribution techniques;

Adaptation to Marine Core Service

Regarding Services development, the requirements of the WFD/MSFD have been investigated in order to get an overview on the national implementations of the directives.

Service prototyping has been performed including data assimilation and algo-rithms improvement.

A service validation data model has been defined and is currently being imple-mented as a web service.



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EET Dissemination activities and events planned within the project:Aquamar and MarCoast Validation & User training workshop (MUMM, Brussels,

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Thales Alenia Space France FR Private sector Coordinator

ACRI-ST S.A.S. FR Private sector Partner

Brockman Consult DE Private sector Partner

Planetek Italia SRL IT Private sector Partner

DHI Institut for vand og miljo forening DE Research Partner

Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique BE Research Partner

Finnish Environment Institute SYKE/TK/GEO FI Research Partner

Plymouth Marine Laboratory UK Research Partner

Starlab ES Private sector Partner

Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center NO Research Partner

Danish Meteorological Institute DE Research Partner

Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. DE Research Partner

Satellite Oceanographic Consultants Ltd UK Private sector Partner

ARGANS UK Private sector Partner

Water Insight NE Private sector Partner

Ilmatieteen Laitos FI Research Partner



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Project coordinator Stéphane Pierotti


Project website www.marcoast.eu

http://www.marcoast.eu

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The overarching topics the project addresses:1. Groundwater 2. Surface water

A short summary of the project:AQUAREHAB is a EU financed large scale research project (FP7) that is being coor-dinated by VITO involving a consortium of 19 partners. The project started 1st May 2009 and will last 56 months until 2013. The project will develop innovative rehabilitation technologies for soil, ground-water and surface water to cope with a number of different priority contaminants (nitrates, pesticides, chlorinated compounds, aromatic compounds, mixed pollu-tions…) within heavily degraded water systems. Methods will be developed to determine the (long-term) impact of the innovative rehabilitation technologies to reduce pollution to river and groundwater receptors. The project will promote the uptake of successful technologies for use in river basin management measures. One of the major outcomes of the project will be a generic river basin management tool that assesses the ecological and economical impact of rehabilitation technologies on the water system at both local and regional scales. The main objectives of the project: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 pol-lutions, ) 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 inhibit-ing influx of pollutants from groundwater to surface water; multifunctional perme-able barriers and injectable Fe-based particles for rehabilitation of groundwater.



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Methods will be developed to determine the (long-term) impact of the innovative rehabilitation technologies on the reduction of the influx of these priority pollut-ants 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 focused on innovative rehabilitation strate-gies to reduce priority pollutants in the water system whereas the generic manage-ment 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 devel-oped 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.

The main deliverables, available dissemination material and education mate-rial from the project:4 newsletters have been released and are available on the project website: http://aquarehab.vito.be/home/Pages/home.aspxOther publications:• Bastiaens, L. Development of rehabilitation technologies and approaches for mul-tipressured degraded waters and the integration of their impact in river basin man-agement• Bosch, J., Heister, K., Hofmann , T., and Meckenstock, R.U. (2010). Nanosized Iron Oxide Colloids Strongly Enhance Microbial Iron Reduction. Applied and Environ-mental Microbiology, p. 184–189.• Bosch, J., Fritzsche, A., Totsche, K. U., and Meckenstock, R.U. (2010). Nanosized Ferrihydrite Colloids Facilitate Microbial Iron Reduction under Flow Conditions, Ge-omicrobiology Journal, vol.27 (Issue: 2), p. 123-129 • Maphosa, F., De Vos, W.M., and Smidt, H. (2010). Exploiting the ecogenomics tool-box for environmental diagnostics of organohalide respiring bacteria. Trends in Biotechnology Volume 28, Issue 6, 308-316, 30 April 2010. • Buchau, A., Rucker, W., De Boer, C.V., and Klaas, N. (2010). Inductive detection and concentration measurement of nano sized zero valent iron in the subsurface, IET Science, Measurement & Technology, Volume: 4 Issue: 6 Pages: 289-297.



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EET Dissemination activities and events planned within the project:AQUAREHAB is organising on 25-26th September 2012 a European Symposium –

Remediation Technologies and their Integration in Water Management - in Barce-lona, Spain. The symposium is being organised jointly with the FP7 project UPSOIL and PRB/RZ-2012. The purpose is to bring together pioneers and experts from all over the world to exchange information and new experiences. We hope you will at-tend and submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations. More information can be found here.

• AQUAREHAB’s Fourth General Meeting (23-24 November 2011) at the Helmholtz Zentrum in Munich, Germany.• Second AQUAREHAB Open End Users’ Meeting, 18 January 2011, Geological Sur-vey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Copenhagen, Denmark.• VEGAS Colloquium 2010, University of Stuttgart 7-8 October 2010.• Permeable Reactive Barriers & Reactive Zones (PRB/RZ 2010), Fourth International Symposium, 6-8 July 2010, Antwerp, Belgium• Riskbase, Conference on Integrated River Basin Management under the Water Framework Directive, 26 - 28 April 2010, Lille, France.• First AQUAREHAB Open End Users’ meeting, 17-18 November 2009, Mechelen, Bel-gium



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Name of institution Country Role

Vlaamse Instelling Voor Technologish Onderzoek N.V. BE Coordinator

Höganäs AB SE Partner

Sapion Hans Milieu-Advies BE Partner

Masarykova Univerzita CZ Partner

Wageningen Universiteit NL Partner

Technische Universiteit Delft NL Partner

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev IS Partner

Universitaet Stuttgart DE Partner

Københavns Universitet DK Partner

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven BE Partner

ISODETECT GMBH DE Partner

The Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland DK Partner

Environmental Institute S.R.O. SI Partner

UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education NL Partner

CTM Centre Tecnologic ES Partner

The University of Sheffield UK Partner

Helmhotz Zentrum Muenchen Deutsches Forsc-hungszentrum Fuer Gesundheit und Umwelt GMBH DE Partner

Politecnico di Torino IT Partner

Institut National de l’Environnement et des risques (INERIS) FR Partner



Contacts

Project coordinator Leen Bastiaens


Project website http://aquarehab.vito.be/

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The overarching topics the project addresses:5. Water resources management7. Monitoring and analysis8. Drinking water

A short summary of the project:The project was a preparatory study for the development of a low-cost water qual-ity test and associated management systems for use in developing countries and in disasters/emergencies. The goal of the project was to lay the foundations for a subsequent grant application to develop a water test with associated management systems for use in developing countries and emergency situations. The project aimed to demonstrate to policy makers, donors and research funding organisations that there is an urgent and clear need to provide a low cost water test. Following an assessment of developing country and disaster relief needs, the formation of a network of experts was designed to address these needs. The project aimed to es-tablish how an appropriate water test could be developed from existing technolo-gies in the near term. A follow-on funding application to develop this water test was then submitted based on these activities.

The main objectives of the project:A. To assess the needs of developing countries and disaster-response agencies for microbiological testing of drinking water. B. To prepare a full specification to research, develop and implement a low cost wa-ter test, together with the associated management systems, data collection, com-munications and reporting, to facilitate the monitoring of access to safe drinking water in developing countries. C. To bring together a network of specialists to prepare the needs assessment and specification. D. To develop a network of stakeholders having interests in the use of a low cost water test. E. To demonstrate a strong business case for funding the full development of the test and to submit.

Link to EU water policy:3. Bathing Water Directive 5. Drinking Water Directive 12. Other: Support for developing countries



Project acronym AQUATESTProject title Low cost water test for developing

countries – a preparatory studyStart and end date 1/7/2006 - 31/12/2007Funding programme FP6

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The project is focused to these stakeholders:1. Non-governmental organizations 2. Research sector3. Policy sector5. End users and General public

The main results the project already achieved:The principal deliverable of the Aquatest project is a funding application for the full development of the low-cost water test (D4). Such an application was submit-ted to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in July 2007, 5 months ahead of the Aquatest project timetable. This application was successful and received funding, and as such the project generated its main deliverable successfully and ahead of schedule.

The main deliverables, available dissemination material and education mate-rial from the project:• The main deliverables of the project are summarised within the Publishable Fi-nal Activity Report.• Aquatest 2 Project, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, followed on from the EU funded preparatory study. A number of dissemination activities have been undertaken over the course of that project including academic publica-tion, online working papers, presentations at conferences, conference exhibition stands, newsletters, leaflets and press releases. Further activities are planned for the remainder of the project. Individual outputs and a spreadsheet detailing all dissemination activities may be available upon request.

Dissemination activities and events planned within the project:

Methods of Raising Public Participation and Awareness • Information regarding the Aquatest project has been disseminated to the gen-eral public through two separate press-releases and an interview of Dr. Stephen Gundry on ITV-West News show. First press release by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) following the Jan. 2007 Aquatest work-shop held at the AAAS headquarters in Washington, DC. Second press-release and Dr. Gundry’s television interview in Nov. 2007 announcing the follow-up funding for the Aquatest program from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Overview of Project Dissemination Activities:• Project web site: The website was visited from 5,234 separate, resolvable IP ad-dresses during 2007, which means that it has been viewed by at least this many visitors during this period. The actual number of visitors is likely to be more than this, since several individuals may access the website from the same IP address could not be identified when tracking visitors to the site.• Posters and flyers: In August 2006, USOTON and AQUAYA developed a flyer and envelope to disseminate the project. This flyer was distributed at all subsequent conferences and events, at a United Nations meeting attended by Prof. Dave Gor-don (University of Bristol) and at two inter-agency meetings of NGOs working in



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EET the water sector by Andy Bastable (Oxfam). We also distributed this flyer to personalcontacts during the course of the project. USOTON and AQUAYA developed two

posters to disseminate the project, one being a 2-panel design and the other an A1 format poster. These were used at several of the conferences attended during the project.• Workshops and conference presentations: The project disseminated the Aquat-est concept to researchers, policy makers, and industry via a series of conference presentations. Events were chosen so as to maximise global coverage, and included the WARFSA conference (ZA), the WEDC conference (South Asia), the L2L confer-ence (Europe) and the IWA – Health Related Microbiology conference (South-East Asia). We also organised a workshop at the IWA World Water Congress in Beijing, which is described in greater detail in our report for deliverable D5, and a work-shop at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (North America). In addition to introducing the Aquatest program to water quality experts in US government institutions and Universities, the AAAS workshop provided an opportunity to discuss Aquatest with policy makers focused on science, technology and international development. • Newsletters: USOTON and AQUAYA designed two newsletters, outlining project activities and issues related to the test development. These newsletters were made available via the website and e-mailed to our network of experts and stakeholders, as described above. • With the exception of the newsletter described above, future dissemination ac-tivities have taken place largely through the follow-on Aquatest2 project, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (e.g. see Aquatest website).



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Project coordinator Professor Stephen Gundry


Project website www.bristol.ac.uk/aquatest



University of Bristol UK University Coordinator

University of Southampton UK University Partner

AES-Chemunex SA FR Private Sector Partner

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland IE Public sector Partner

Institute of Water and Sanitation Development ZW Public Sector Partner

University of Cape Town SA University Partner

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The overarching topics the project addresses:1. Groundwater5. Water resources management8. Drinking water 14. Water technologies17. Water consumption

A short summary of the project:The A.S.A.P. project involves the hydrological district of Pontedera (Pisa, Tuscany, IT) facing a serious and pressing environmental problem – the Bientina aquifer crisis.

The demand of drinkable water is increasing. In order to satisfy this demand, more and more water is pumped; consequently, the water level of many abstracting are-as is lowering. When recharging capacity is exceeded, the resource is overexploited. If demand is also highly variable and if the supply networks are uneven, the prob-ability of pipe failures, water leakage and abstraction, will increase. In these cases, preventive rehabilitation does not help unless the dynamic efficiency of the supply net is improved. Financial resources for major maintenance rely on the supply net for its refurbishment and are often not available. Frequent investments are barely enough to ensure corrective maintenance of infrastructures. A.S.A.P. aimed to cut down leakages and to reduce water abstraction. The idea is to have dynamic flow/pressure regulation based on a reliable model of the supply network which allows focusing on early detection and remediation of leakages. This also ensures a bet-ter response to fluctuations in demand or in keeping displacements in abstraction at minimum. In order to most efficiently allocate scarce water resources, a reduced amount of pumping needs must be combined with a valid aquifer model.

The main objectives of the project:The objectives of the A.S.A.P. project have been finalized to demonstrate, in a repre-sentative scale, the economically viable and technical possibilities of a Protocol to protect an aquifer from changes that could modify its characteristics.



Project acronym A.S.A.P.Project title Actions for Systemic Aquifer Protection -

implementation and demonstration of a Protocol to scale down groundwater

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By focusing on the overexploited aquifer of Bientina (Pisa, Tuscany, IT), the A.S.A.P. objectives are aimed towards reducing groundwater pumping by 10% and reduc-ing energy consumption by 10%. These goals range from: inverting the negative, lowering trend of freshwater head (from -0.5meter/year to +0.5 meter/year), to reducing the probabilities of freshwater being contaminated by low quality water and pollutants reaching the aquifer; to avoiding the gradual sinking of land (sub-sidence) and deterioration of wetlands with consequent damage to the ecosys-tems; to diminishing pumping to a minimum while ensuring that citizens always have enough water of good quality also in case of seasonal fluctuations.

Link to EU water policy:1. Water Framework Directive2. Groundwater Directive 5. Drinking Water Directive 10. Water Scarcity and Drought Policy

The project is focused to these stakeholders:1. Non-governmental organizations 3. Policy sector 4. Private sector – business5. General public

The main results the project already achieved:• The A.S.A.P. project produced a reduction of 15% of total losses (NRW/Non Rev-enue Water) cutting down from 9.37 to 7.93 million cubic meters (average yearly data 2005 -2008).• Abstraction from the endangered aquifer decreased by 8.3% comparing the last available data (2008) with pre-ASAP data (2005); this reduction accounts for 1.5 million cubic meters by year (equivalent to the annual medium consumption of 11.000 average families).• As a result, the lowering trend of the water head has reversed and since then the monitoring values recorded exhibit a constant increase. The water level in the sam-ple well (well 14 Central 2 of Bientina) raised from – 9.21 m (annual average 2005) to – 8.92 m (annual average 2008) with an increase of + 0.3 m. In the surrounding area, piezometric level increase has been recorded, in the range between 0.5 and 1 m. In one case the piezometric level raised of 2.8 m (comparing piezometric levels between 2002 and 2008).• An instrumentation allowing continuous monitoring of the piezometric level of the aquifer and of the supply network has been designed and implemented through a digital model that allows to detect leaks promptly and to control and set pressures at the minimum needed.• The whole process has been documented, submitted to the evaluation of ex-perts and translated in a protocol (the A.S.A.P. Protocol) which is now available to policy makers , technicians engaged in water sector, to the managers involved in water management and more in general for spatial planning. The results of the project have been presented to these key actors during two international meet-ings in Pisa (IT) and A Coruña (ES).



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EET • The project has been presented to the citizens through a flyer mailed with the bill: in this way more than 300.000 users have been reached.

• The workers involved in the project have increased their skills. At the same time leak detection have evolved becoming a less hazardous while more effective job thanks to the new methods introduced.

The main deliverables, available dissemination material and education mate-rial from the project:• The A.S.A.P. Protocol is the principal tool to make A.S.A.P. work fruitful and reus-able, thus allowing others to benefit from its experience, investments and results at European level. • For citizens, the A.S.A.P. Protocol is an additional instrument for participating ac-tively to the governance of water. For policy makers who work on spatial planning, for technicians and experts of the water sector and for managers of the public and private water supply companies, the A.S.A.P. Protocol is an option that should be considered for implementation whenever reasonable.• The A.S.A.P. Protocol has been validated by a group of experts of the Water Tech-nology Institute of the University of Valencia (Spain) led by Prof. Enrique Cabrera Marcet and it is now freely available on the Internet. This document explains the basic steps needed to implement the A.S.A.P. approach in other cases where an aq-uifer is at risk, or when foresighted politicians and decision makers plan to prepare themselves to face the uncertainties about water availability in a global heating and climatic change perspective.• The international debate led by the Technological Institute of Galicia (ITG) sug-gested that the potential area of A.S.A.P. Protocol implementation covers at least the coastal zones of the Mediterranean Sea.• The Association of Water Supply Industries in Tuscany (Italy) included the A.S.A.P. Protocol within its guidelines for major network rehabilitation projects.• You can easily download dissemination materials from the A.S.A.P. website.

Dissemination activities and events planned within the project:• Targeted Conference “Comunicare agli Enti Pubblici le Azioni per la Protezione Sistemica dell’Acquifero - Talk To Public Bodies” (Pisa, IT, 01/07/2008)• Targeted Conference: El agua en las Ciudades: Retos para una Gestión Sostenible. Conferencia para los profesionales. Proyecto A.S.A.P. (A Coruña, ES, 26/095/2009)• Final Conference: A.S.A.P. e oltre: l’integrazione della gestione della risorsa idrica nella pianificazione territoriale e nelle politiche di adeguamento al cambiamento climatico - Conferenza Finale – Progetto A.S.A.P. (Pisa, IT, 17-18/09/2009)• Flyers distributed with the bills



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Acque Spa IT Private sector Coordinator

Acque Ingegneria Srl, now Ingegnerie Toscane IT Non-profit organisation Partner

Fundaciòn Instituto Tecnològico de Galicia ES Research Foundation Partner

Provincia di Pisa IT Public sector Partner

Contacts

Project coordinator Oberdan Cei


Project website www.klink.it/asap

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The overarching topics the project addresses:2. Surface water5. Water resources management18. Other: mathematical modelling, remote sensing

A short summary of the project:Recent droughts observed in these basins call for the need of an efficient technol-ogy to predict medium and long-term flows for sustainable water resources man-agement. The project developed appropriate mathematical models to represent snow-pack dynamics and snowmelt runoff. These models have been designed to integrate Earth Observation data and in-situ hydrological and meteorological measurements, introducing therefore a novel approach to the representation of the involved physical processes in time and space.

Model innovation stems with the enhanced capability of Earth Observation data to provide continuous information on state variables that can be poorly accounted for using the traditional approach based on input-output control. Model calibration, validation and demonstration have been performed for representative catchments of different geographic conditions (climate, geology, geomorphology, hydrogra-phy) in the European Alps. Models have been implemented in a geo-service for tailoring data and models to different environments under an integrated, but mod-ulated approach capable of effective addressing the specific problems raising from different stakeholders, these including water policy makers, economic (hydropower companies, irrigation schemes, municipal water supply), and social (regional, basin and municipal authorities, citizens) stakeholders. The geo-service, fully compliant with the architecture of the Inspire initiative, is capable of coupling global and local data to compute, archive, upgrade and distribute snow derived information.

The main objectives of the project:The aim of the AWARE project is to provide innovative tools for monitoring and predicting of water availability and distribution in those drainage basins wheresnowmelt is a major component of the annual water balance, a common condition in Alpine catchments.



Project acronym AWAREProject title A tool for monitoring and forecasting

Available WAter REsource in mountain environment

Start and end date 1/7/2005 - 30/6/2008

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Link to EU Water Policy:1. Water Framework Directive

The project is focused to these stakeholders:1. Non-governmental organizations 10. Water scarcity and drought policy

The main results the project already achieved:• Assimilation of remote sensing data in hydrological models• Online geo services: web map services, web processing services

The main deliverables, available dissemination material and education mate-rial from the project:• Articles in peer-reviewed journals• Press releases• Reports• Brochures• Website• Video and film• Media advertising (TV, radio)

Dissemination activities and events planned within the project:• Conferences• Workshops• Open daysIn all of EU countries and USA.



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Name of institution Country RoleConsiglio Nazionale della Richerche IREA - Istituto per il Rilevamento Eletro-magnetico del l’Ambiente - Department of Milan

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ENEL IT Stakeholder

IRPI-CNR Torino IT Stakeholder

Regione Valle D’Aosta IT Stakeholder

Regione Lombardia IT Stakeholder

Consorzio EST-SESIA IT Stakeholder

ARPA Valle D’Aosta IT Stakeholder

LNSA IT Stakeholder

Monterosa Ski 2000 IT Stakeholder

ARPA Veneto IT Stakeholder

ARPA Emilia Romagna IT Stakeholder

Consorzio ADDA IT Stakeholder

ARSO SI Stakeholder

SEL SI Stakeholder

New Mexico State University USA Stakeholder



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The overarching topics the project addresses:1. Groundwater

A short summary of the project:This project is a contribution to the global European effort which focuses on the sharing of a community approach of Water Management and a common implementation of the Water Framework Directive. This latter requires Member States to assess the “Status” of their water bodies at the beginning of each river basin management plan (RBMP) cycle, that is every six years. The “Status” is to be assessed against predetermined quality and quantity criteria and for quality these are referred to as “Threshold Values”. The GWDD and Annex II (Part B) set out when Threshold Values (TV) should be established. A Threshold Value should only be determined for a pollutant which is causing the groundwater body, or an associated surface water body /terrestrial ecosystem to be characterised as “at risk” and a minimum list of potential pollutant substances has been agreed.

The overall aim of BRIDGE has been to develop and test a method for the derivation of these pollutant threshold values for groundwater bodies in support of the Status provisions of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) and the Groundwater Daughter Directive (GWDD). The project has been carried out at European level, involving a range of stakeholders and efficiently linking the scientific and policy-making communities.

The main objectives of the project:The specific objectives of BRIDGE were:• to evaluate and assemble scientific outputs to set out criteria for the assessment of the chemical status of groundwater. These criteria are data for characterisation of nat-ural and anthropogenic pollutants, parameters indicative for pollution, data for char-acterisation of groundwater bodies as hydrologic and hydro-geological parameters,• to derive a plausible general approach, how to structure relevant criteria appropriately with the aim to set representative groundwater threshold values scien-tifically sound and defined at national river basin district or groundwater body level,



Project acronym BRIDGEProject title Background cRiteria for the

IDentification of Groundwater thrEsholdsStart and end date 1/1/2005 – 31/12/2006Funding programme FP6

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• to check the applicability and validity of this approach by means of case studies at the European scale,• to carry out an environmental impact assessment taking into account the eco-nomic and social impacts.

Link to EU Water Policy:2. Groundwater Directive

The project is focused to these stakeholders:3. Policy sector: Working Group C- the group of the Common Implementation Strategy for the Water Framework Directive in charge of groundwaters.

The main results the project already achieved:A procedure for threshold values setting in groundwater, which is based on a tiered approach and on knowing the nature of the final receptor at risk. The first tiers take account of the Natural background level and refers to existing standards or reference.

The main deliverables, available dissemination material and education mate-rial from the project:Deliverables:• Articles in peer-reviewed journals• Newsletters• Reports• Posters

Education material: • «Guidance on groundwater status and trends». Common Implementation Strat-egy for the WFD. Guidance document n°18. November 2009.

Dissemination activities and events planned within the project:Conferences within the EU, final conference was hosted by UNESCO.



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BRGM FR COORDINATOR

Umweltbundesamt Gmbh AT Partner

Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford UK Partner

University of Gent BE Partner

Budapesti Muszaki Es Gazdasagtudom-anyi Egyetem HU Partner

University of Liège BE Partner

Vlaamse Instelling Voor Technologisch Onderzoek N.V BE Partner

Danish Environmental Protection Agency DK Partner

Danmarks og Gronlands Geologiske Undersogelse DK Partner

ACTeon FR Partner

Umweltbundesamt DE Partner

Hessisches Landesamt für Umwelt und Geologie DE Partner

Instituto Geologico Y Minero De Espana ES Partner

Environment Agency UK Partner

Finnish Environment Institute FI Partner

National Agricultural Research Foundation GR Partner

Autorita’ Di Bacino Del Fiume Tevere IT Partner



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Project website www.wfd-bridge.net

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Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH DE Partner

Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek-TNO

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Univeristy of Aveiro PT Partner

Lietuvos Geologijos Tarnyba LT Partner

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam NL Partner

Executive Environment Agency BL Partner

University of Tartu Uelikool EE Partner

Application Européenne de Technologies et de services FR Partner

Akademia Gorniczo-Hutnicza PL Partner

Office International de l’Eau FR Partner



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The overarching topics the project addresses:1. Drinking water2. Waste water6. Marine water7. Others, specified: Industrial exhaust/flue gasWater vapour capture in industrial plants – a new source of water

A short summary of the project:One of the major challenges of this century is the provision of water for a growing population and the industry. The shortage in water resources in arid areas requires the availability of more efficient and cheaper water production processes. In some regions like the Middle East water is even more important than energy production. A large source of water is found in the form of evaporated water emitted from dif-ferent industrial processes. If for example 20% of the evaporated water from the flue gas stream of a coal fired power plant would be captured, the plant would be self sufficient from a process water point of view.

The objective within the European Integrated project CapWa is to produce a com-mercially available membrane modular system suitable for industrial applications within 3-4 years. The produced demin water from this system should be competi-tive with existing demin water technologies. The starting point will be the water va-pour selective composite membranes that are developed in the proof of principle project. The proof of principle project showed that energy efficiency can also be achieved. In CapWa the modular membrane system will be developed and tested in a cooling tower and the flue gas duct of a gas- and coal-fired power plant. To be competitive with existing demin production lines, the production of the mem-branes and the construction of the end system will be efficient and user friendly.

The main objectives of the project:Production of a commercially available membrane modular system suitable for industrial applications within 3-4 years which is competitive with current demin water technologies.



Project acronym CapWaProject title Capture of evaporated water with novel

membranesStart and end date 1/9/2010 - 1/9/2013Funding programme FP7

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Link to EU Water Policy:1. Water Framework Directive2. Groundwater Directive8. Industrial Emission Directive11. Water Scarcity and Drought Policy13. Adaptation to Climate Change Framework

The project is focused to these stakeholders:1. Non-governmental organizations 2. Groundwater Directive8. Industrial Emission Directive11. Water Scarcity and Drought Policy13. Adaptation to Climate Change Framework

The main results the project already achieved:The correct combination between manufactured support fibre and selective coat-ing material has been found. This is a key-milestone for prior to the CapWa project these materials were manufactured in the Lab.

The main deliverables, available dissemination material and education mate-rial from the project:Please have a look at our project website.

Dissemination activities and events planned within the project:• PowerGen multiple conferences in Middle east (Feb 2012 - Qatar), India (Apr 2012- India), • Africa (Nov 2012- South Africa), and Europe (May 2012– Germany); • Australian Power Industry API – (May 2012, Australia); • 14th AMK – membrane conference (mid 2012, Germany); • Industrial technologies (June 2012, Denmark). EPRI (end 2012, USA Seatle); • 2013 end conference in Ghana



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