Description du projet
De nouveaux tests pour préserver la qualité de l’eau potable
Le changement climatique a une incidence sur la qualité de l’eau potable, au même titre que l’augmentation de la pollution. La directive révisée de l’UE relative à l’eau potable, qui est entrée en vigueur en 2021, fixe de nouvelles exigences minimales concernant la qualité de l’eau potable. Si la directive encourage une approche d’évaluation et de gestion des risques, celle-ci est mise en cause par des lacunes au niveau des informations sur les nouveaux éléments préoccupants, tels que les pesticides, les produits pharmaceutiques, les sous-produits de désinfection, les métaux lourds et les micro-organismes pathogènes. Dans ce contexte, le projet ToDrinQ, financé par l’UE, développera et testera des technologies de contrôle de la qualité de l’eau en temps réel et des systèmes de traitement innovants. En outre, il mettra au point des outils interopérables de prise de décision qui soutiennent la conception d’installations de traitement résilientes et fondées sur des données factuelles et améliorent la sensibilisation et la réponse opérationnelles générales du système d’eau.
Objectif
The revised EU Drinking Water Directive promotes a risk assessment and risk management approach for securing drinking water supply in the context of climate change and increased pollution. However, this approach is challenged by insufficient information that is available to operators, especially in real time, on compounds and organisms of emerging concern, such as pesticides, pharmaceuticals, disinfection by-products, heavy metals and pathogenic micro-organisms. We argue that if drinking water treatment could leverage novel technologies and design philosophies, and more agile operational actions could be supported, drinking water supply systems could become more adaptable and robust without expensive infrastructural investments. In this context, ToDrinQ develops and tests a compendium of modular, complementary, innovative solutions (the ‘ToDrinQ Toolkit’) that provide new information and better support tools to operators and designers to adapt to (short- and long-term) changes in water quality, while obtaining high drinking water quality at the tap. ToDrinQ develops novel real time sensing and water quality monitoring technologies, innovative treatment systems (especially suitable for small-scale/modular, adaptable treatment plants) and interoperable decision tools that support resilient, evidence-based treatment plant design and improved overall water system operational awareness and response. The consortium is perfectly placed to achieve significant progress beyond the state of art, based on a research-technology alliance of leading universities and research institutes and innovative technology developers including deep tech SMEs. It is also ideally placed to maximise relevance and impact by grounding its innovations on diverse real-world cases through co-creation with five pro-active water companies (in the Netherlands, Greece, France, Switzerland, and the Czech Republic), and maximise outreach through the influential multi-stakeholder, network Water Europe.
Champ scientifique
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwater treatment processesdrinking water treatment processes
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental scienceshydrology
- social sciencessociologygovernancecrisis management
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
- engineering and technologycivil engineeringwater engineeringwater supply systems
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinateur
2628 CN Delft
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