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Innovative tools enabling drinking WATER PROTECTion in rural and urban environments

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Gestione innovativa per la protezione delle risorse di acqua potabile

L’inquinamento agricolo si ripercuote sulla qualità dell’acqua potabile in Europa. In questo contesto, il progetto WATERPROTECT, finanziato dall’UE, intende migliorare l’adozione di pratiche di gestione efficaci e di misure di mitigazione per la salvaguardia delle risorse di acqua potabile. Attraverso sette diversi casi studio che abbracciano varie condizioni ambientali e agricole, quadri giuridici e aree di raccolta dell’acqua, WATERPROTECT ha sviluppato strumenti innovativi per la gestione dell’acqua, tra cui delle applicazioni basate sul web per valutare l’impatto dei prodotti agrochimici sui modelli idrici, condurre analisi di efficienza dei costi e valutare i benefici sociali delle strategie di mitigazione. Il progetto coinvolge diverse parti interessate, incluse associazioni di agricoltori, autorità locali e aziende di produzione dell’acqua, che attuano le migliori pratiche come la gestione del territorio, l’agricoltura responsabile, la gestione dei prodotti e la prevenzione dell’inquinamento da fonti puntuali.

Obiettivo

High-quality, safe, and sufficient drinking water is essential for life: we use it for drinking, food preparation and cleaning. Agriculture is the biggest source of pesticides and nitrate pollution in European fresh waters. The overarching objective of WATERPROTECT is to contribute to effective uptake and realisation of management practices and mitigation measures to protect drinking water resources. Therefore WATERPROTECT will create an integrative multi-actor participatory framework including innovative instruments that enable actors to monitor, to finance and to effectively implement management practices and measures for the protection of water sources. We propose seven case studies involving multiple actors in implementing good practices (land management, farming, product stewardship, point source pollution prevention) to ensure safe drinking water supply. The seven case studies cover different pedo-climatic conditions, different types of farming systems, different legal frameworks, larger and smaller water collection areas across the EU. In close cooperation with actors in the field in the case studies (farmers associations, local authorities, water producing companies, private water companies, consumer organisations) and other stakeholders (fertilizer and plant protection industry, environment agencies, nature conservation agencies, agricultural administrations) at local and EU level, WATERPROTECT will develop innovative water governance models investigating alternative pathways from focusing on the ‘costs of water treatment’ to ‘rewarding water quality delivering farming systems’. Water governance structures will be built upon cost-efficiency analysis related to mitigation and cost-benefit analysis for society, and will be supported by spatially explicit GIS analyses and predictive models that account for temporal and spatial scaling issues. The outcome will be improved participatory methods and public policy instruments to protect drinking water resources.

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H2020-RUR-2016-2017

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Bando secondario

H2020-RUR-2016-2

Meccanismo di finanziamento

RIA - Research and Innovation action

Coordinatore

VLAAMSE INSTELLING VOOR TECHNOLOGISCH ONDERZOEK N.V.
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 865 314,86
Indirizzo
Boeretang 200
2400 Mol
Belgio

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Vlaams Gewest Prov. Antwerpen Arr. Turnhout
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Data della firma CE 10 Maggio 2017
Ultimo aggiornamento: 29 Agosto 2022

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