Objective In irrigated areas in the NIS and Southern European States, inefficient use of onventional water resources occurs through incomplete wetting of soils, which causes accelerated runoff and preferential flow, and also through excessive evaporation associate d with unhindered capillary rise. Furthermore, a largely unexploited potential exists to save conventional irrigation water by supplementation with organic-rich waste water, which, if used appropriately, can also lead to improvements to soil physical pro perties and soil nutrient and organic matter content. This project aims to (a) reduce irrigation water losses by developing, evaluating and promoting techniques that improve the wetting properties ofsoils, and (b) investigate the use of organic-rich wast e water as a non-conventional water resource in irrigation and, in addition, as a tool in improving soil physical properties and soil nutrient and organic matter content.Key activities include (i) identifying, for the NIS and Southern European States, th e soil type/land use combinations, for which the above approaches are expected to be most effective and their implementation most feasible, and (ii) examining the water saving potential, physical, biological and chemical effects on soils of the above app roaches, and their impact on performance. This will be carried out using field trials in NIS and Southern European States and, where applicable, under more tightly controllable laboratory conditions. Expected outputs include techniques for sustainableimp rovements in soil wettability management as a novel approach in water saving, detailed evaluation of the prospects and effects of using supplemental organic-rich waste waters in irrigation, an advanced process-based numerical hydrological model adapted to quantify and upscale resulting water savings and nutrient and potential contaminant fluxes, and identification of suitable areas in the NIS and Southern European States. Fields of science engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwater treatment processeswastewater treatment processesengineering and technologycivil engineeringwater engineeringirrigationnatural sciencesearth and related environmental scienceshydrology Programme(s) FP6-INCO - Specific measures in support of international cooperation: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) INCO-2003-D1 - Environmental protection Call for proposal FP6-2003-INCO-RUSSIA+NIS-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme STIP - Specific Targeted Innovation Project Coordinator STICHTING DIENST LANDBOUWKUNDIG ONDERZOEK Address Costerweg 50 9101 Wageningen Netherlands See on map Links Website Opens in new window EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIVERSIDAD MIGUEL HERNANDEZ Spain EU contribution € 0,00 Address Avda de la universidad s/n / avda. del ferrocarril s/n Elche (alicante) See on map Links Website Opens in new window UNIVERSITY OF WALES United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address Singleton park Swansea See on map Links Website Opens in new window MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING Russia EU contribution € 0,00 Address Prjanishnikov street, 19 Moscow See on map Links Website Opens in new window SARATOV STATE AGRARIAN UNIVERSITY Russia EU contribution € 0,00 Address 1, teatralnaya pl. Saratov See on map Links Website Opens in new window NATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CENTRE "INSTITUTE FOR SOIL SCIENCE AND AGROCHEMISTRY RESEARCH" Ukraine EU contribution € 0,00 Address Str. chaikovsky 4 Kharkiv See on map Links Website Opens in new window DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE Greece EU contribution € 0,00 Address Vas. 1 - prokat Xanthi See on map Links Website Opens in new window
