Objective Water is essential for life. This element supposes also a determinant factor in the economy and ecology of the different regions. But water not only has influence in the human life, humans also affect to water cycle. The human activity is responsible of the climate change by which the Mediterranean region is being affected by drought and water shortage. Water shortage in Mediterranea countries is becoming an essential question. The domestic sector accounted for about 24 percent of total water withdrawn in Europe in 2000, which is about 7,320,00ML. In fact, toilet flushing supposes 30% of the domestic use of urban water. The consume of such amount of water could be avoided using dry toilets, it is calculated saving of 50L/cap/day. In addition, it is estimated more than 20 million citizens without access to a safe sanitation in Europe. This situation is critical in rural areas of eastern European, where the most common system in these areas usually consist of pit latrines and septic tanks. Dry toilets are common in Nordic countries but their rustic technology makes them unacceptable in urban or large communities. At present dry toilets implies several factors, such as unpleasant odours and the manual manipulation of the latrine waste, which makes them unviable in most of urban environments. Also, there are other problems of drytoilets such as struvite formation on pipe connections. But this situation can be changed by applying the technical innovations that will be developed in this project. In adittion, the project’s success will allow the possibility to save important drinking water (1,875L/cap/year). This will be of essential importance in the Mediterranean countries, where the drought menace is each time more obvious. The use of dry toilets in rural areas with poor infrastructure will have safe sanitation systems to citizens DRYCLOSET project will develop a new dry toilet with a biocide toilet, low bad odours emissions and low maintenance. Fields of science engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwater treatment processesdrinking water treatment processesnatural sciencesbiological sciencesecologynatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes Programme(s) FP7-SME - Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs Topic(s) SME-1 - Research for SMEs Call for proposal FP7-SME-2010-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme BSG-SME - Research for SMEs Coordinator SANISPHERE EU contribution € 416 636,00 Address LA CONDAMINE 26110 SAINT FERREOL TRENTE PAS France See on map Region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Rhône-Alpes Drôme Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Loïc Perrier (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (5) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all UGN- UMWELTTECHNIK GMBH Germany EU contribution € 172 105,00 Address GEWERBEPARK KEPLERSTRASSE 20 07549 GERA See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Herbert Zölsmann (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data REPOL SL Spain EU contribution € 223 348,00 Address CALLE A POLIGONO INDUSTRIAL EL MIJARES 12550 ALMAZORA See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Vicente Alcon (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data TECNOVE SL Spain EU contribution € 157 977,00 Address AVDA DE ALCAZAR 6 13640 HERENCIA (CIUDAD REAL) See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Jesús Vicente González-Ortega Tajuelo (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data TTY-SAATIO Finland EU contribution € 27 133,00 Address Korkeakoulunkatu 10 33720 Tampere See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Jörg Langwaldt (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data INSPIRALIA SOCIEDAD LIMITADA Spain EU contribution € 23 708,00 Address CALLE MANUEL TOVAR 49 28034 Madrid See on map Region Comunidad de Madrid Comunidad de Madrid Madrid Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Alfredo Sanchez (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data