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Managed Aquifer Recharge Solutions Training Network

Description du projet

Former des chercheurs débutants à l’application de solutions de recharge contrôlée des aquifères

Il est important d’optimiser le stockage naturel et d’augmenter l’approvisionnement en eau pendant les périodes de faible débit. La recharge contrôlée des aquifères (MAR pour Managed aquifer recharge) est une pratique qui consiste à favoriser, par des moyens artificiels, l’infiltration dans les aquifères dans le but d’augmenter le volume d’eau souterraine disponible. Cela dit, l’interaction complexe entre les processus physiques, biologiques et hydrochimiques à l’œuvre et l’impact de ceux-ci sur la qualité de l’eau et la durabilité des taux d’infiltration restent peu connus. Financé par l’UE, le projet MARSoluT, un réseau de formation innovante du programme Actions Marie Skłodowska-Curie d’une durée de quatre ans, vise à combler ce manque de connaissances afin d’optimiser la conception et le fonctionnement des dispositifs MAR. Douze chercheurs en début de carrière seront formés pour devenir des experts dans les applications MAR dans le cadre de la gestion intégrée des ressources en eau.

Objectif

Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) – storing water in aquifers during times of excess – is a key strategy to enrich groundwater resources in water scarce regions by providing intermediate storage, addressing the typical mismatch between water demand and availability. It can help to mitigate the effects of climate change, and to support water-related environmental services. MAR is, however, characterized by complex interaction of physical, biological and hydrochemical processes influencing water quality and the sustainability of infiltration rates. Individual processes are in principal known, but there is a significant knowledge gap on how they are linked and affect each other. An in-depth understanding of their interplay can lead to MAR systems tailored for best performance in terms of water storage, water polishing goals, infiltration rates, economic viability, and adaptation to climatic change.
MARSoluT addresses this knowledge gap by a collaborative effort in a multi-disciplinary team. Activities are organized around the existing field sites of previous EU FP7 project MARSOL that are already highly characterised and instrumented to allow further in-depth studies and experimental approaches. This will lead to new insights into the complex and coupled processes at MAR sites and will help to optimize MAR design and operation, and thereby minimizing risk of MAR failure. Excellence in research and technological innovation are ensured by involving partners from renown research organizations as well as SMEs and industry partners with a strong background in the water sector.
MARSoluT ESRs will get hands-on experience at various MAR sites while tackling specific MAR-related research topics in an interdisciplinary team. MARSoluT ESRs will become experts on the tailored planning of MAR systems making them attractive for employers from research, industry, and regulatory agencies which are eager to implement MAR into sound and safe Integrated Water Resources Management concepts.

Coordinateur

TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DARMSTADT
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 252 788,40
Adresse
KAROLINENPLATZ 5
64289 Darmstadt
Allemagne

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Région
Hessen Darmstadt Darmstadt, Kreisfreie Stadt
Type d’activité
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Liens
Coût total
€ 252 788,40

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