Securing safe drinking water distribution
SafeCREW aims to support the novel EU Drinking Water Directive (DWD) by generating advanced knowledge and developing tools and guidelines for disinfected and non-disinfected drinking water supply systems.
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Drinking Water Quality Europe 2025: Key note speaker from SafeCREW
From 5 to 6 November 2025 more than 250 drinking water experts are expected at the WWT’s Drinking Water Quality Europe Conference in Amsterdam. Leading water utilities, regulators, contractors, associations, academics and solution providers will be sharing the latest thinking on PFAS, the EU Drinking Water Directive, treatment innovation, catchment management and source water quality, long-term water…
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Insights from 4th International School on Water Reuse (ISWR)
For S afeCREW Alla Kucherova and Serhii Kunytskyi, from the National University of Water & Environmental Engineering, Ukraine took part
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New publication out: Modelling on chlorine consumption in drinking water and its implications for THM formation
The publication “Investigating chlorine consumption through semi-mechanistic modeling and its implications for trihalomethane formation: A comparison of diverse drinking water” authored by Ehsan Ranjbar et al. from SafeCREW partner UBA, presented results on the modelling of chlorine consumption and DBP formation in disinfected drinking water samples. Drinking water disinfection with chlorine is used for the…
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Adsorptive membranes to remove DBP precursors at IWA Membrane Technology Conference 2025
In September 2025, Jon Wullenweber presented the results of the SafeCREW project at the IWA Membrane Technology Conference (MTC) in Daegu, attended by over 350 participants. His presentation focused on innovative techniques for removing disinfection byproduct (DBP) precursors using adsorption membranes and introduced a sustainable, chemical-free regeneration approach with electro-active membranes. The insights sparked a…
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Water pollution: Council and Parliament reach provisional deal to update priority substances in surface and ground waters
The Council presidency and the European Parliament’s representatives reached a provisional political agreement on a proposed directive to review and update the lists of pollutants affecting surface waters and groundwater and corresponding regulatory standards. This agreement updates environmental quality standards for a number of pollutants and adds new ones, aligning EU water policy with the…
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FEW PLACES LEFT – Final H2OforAll Conference (Oct 23–24, 2025), Coimbra
On 23-24 October 2025, the Final Conference of H2OforAll will take place at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. H2OforAll and SafeCREW are two of the founding projects of the ZeroPollution4Water Cluster, both focusing on the safety of drinking water. Both projects focus on the monitoring, evaluation and removal of disinfection by-products. The conference is organised…
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SafeCREW project meeting VII: Key outcomes and next steps
On 25th and 26th September 2025, SafeCREW conducted its seventh project meeting, this time online. While research in the first project year focused on the development of new analysis and monitoring tools for the comprehensive characterisation of water quality and the second year set up the onsite testing and monitoring campaigns in the case studies,…
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First presentation of PhD candidate Marta Mulet at ecoSTP2025
From 23rd to 26th June, the international conference ecoSTP2025, organized by the International Water Association (IWA) took place in Stockholm, Sweden. SafeCREW PhD researcher Marta Mulet presented the first results of her PhD. Marta’s work on the optimization of the coagulation-flocculation process through predictive models has been conducted at Consorci d’Aigües de Tarragona supervised by…
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Second Policy Brief of the ZP4W Cluster on responding to the challenges of DBP published
The ZeroPollution4Water Cluster, a coalition of seven Horizon Europe projects, including SafeCREW, has released a new Policy Brief entitled “Responding to the Challenges of Disinfection By-products to Help Ensure Trust in Tap Water”. The publication focuses on the growing challenge of disinfection by-products (DBPs), substances formed when disinfectants used in drinking water treatment react with…
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Report from 15th Biodetectors Conference in Genoa (26-27 June)
The 15th BioDetectors Conference 2025 in Genoa, Italy, brought together about 100 scientists from about 15 countries worldwide who are involved in the development and application of in vitro effect- and non-animal-based methods (EBM/NAM). Toxicological experts shared insights on challenges in the water cycle in Italy and other countries. Many different case studies and applications…