Climate-resilient management
for safe disinfected and non-disinfected
water supply systems

Resources

Zenodo Community

Final Report

Videos

  • Film 1:
    Securing future proof drinking water supply – (13 minutes)
    Safe drinking water is vital for health, yet climate change threatens its quality. The video “Securing future proof drinking water supply” introduces the work of SafeCREW to tackle these challenges. It presents the diverse case study sites in Hamburg, Berlin, Milan, Tarragona, and western Ukraine, each with unique backgrounds and solutions.
  • Film 2:
    Advancing climate resilient drinking water management – (27 minutes)
    This video highlights SafeCREW’s strategies to help water utilities enhance climate resilience. The twelve SafeCREW partners present the solutions they are developing in the project and the applicability of these solutions by water utilities or policy makers.

Guidelines

Policy briefs

Publications

  • Wullenweber, J., Bennert, J., Mantel, T. and Ernst, M. 2024.
    Characterizing Macroporous Ion Exchange Membrane Adsorbers for Natural Organic Matter (NOM) Removal—Adsorption and Regeneration Behavior,
    Membranes 2024, 14(6), 124;
    https://doi.org/10.3390/membranes14060124
  • European Commission: European Research Executive Agency, Remmert-Rieper, M., Meilmann, D., Martins, R., Charpentier, L. et al., ZeroPollution4Water Cluster – The overview and the inventory of 32 case studies in drinking and groundwater,
    Publications Office of the European Union, 2025,
    https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2848/3536872
  • Behnisch, P., Besselink, H., Wullenweber, J., Cantoni, B., Antonelli, M., Ernst, M., Grieb, A. and Magna, M.,
    LP-34 EU Safe Crew project for evaluating organohalogens (e.g. PFAS, DBPs) in drinking water in Milano (Italy) by using a panel of effect-based bioassays,
    Toxicology Letters, Volume 411, Supplement, 2025; P. S455
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.toxlet.2025.07.1048
  • Martynov, S., Klimov, S., & Kucherova, A.
    Hazard identification and assessment in water supply systems, Problems of Water Supply, Wastewater Disposal, and Hydraulics. Scientific-Technical Bulletin. 2025. Kyiv, Ukraine: Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture, Issue 52, pp. 74–80.
    https://doi.org/10.32347/2524-0021.2025.52.74-80
  • Ranjbar, E., Kaczmarek, D., Khorasani and H., Ruhl, A. S.,
    Investigating chlorine consumption through semi-mechanistic modeling and its implications for trihalomethane formation: A comparison of diverse drinking water,
    Water Research, Volume 288, Part A, 2026,
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2025.124673.
  • Nihemaiti, M., Wullenweber, J., Stefanoni, M., Kahle, L., Lechtenfeld, O.J., Cantoni, B., Antonelli, M., Ernst, M., Reemtsma, T.,
    Formation of regulated and novel disinfection by-products during chlorine and chlorine dioxide disinfection of surface water and groundwater,
    Water Research, Volume 290, 2026,
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2025.124996.
  • Wullenweber, J., Vahedi, Sh., Bennert, J. and Ernst, M. (2026).
    Electrochemical regeneration of macroporous anion exchange membrane Adsorbers for the removal of natural organic matter (NOM),
    Journal of Water Process Engineering, Volume 85, 2026, 109770, ISSN 2214-7144, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwpe.2026.109770.
  • David Langenbach, D., Kalweit, C., Kaczmarek, D. and Ruhl, A.S. (2026). Evaluating DBP Formation in Chlorinated Drinking Water: Effects of Contact with System Materials,
    ACS ES&T Water, February 26, 2026, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsestwater.5c0135.

Public deliverables

All 27 public deliverables now available on CORDIS

D1.1 Advanced analytical procedures for the characterisation of disinfection by-products and methodology for remote sensing of natural organic matter – public report – public report (31 July 2023)

D1.2 Robust analytical methods to comprehensively characterise natural organic matter and related disinfection by-products formation potential – public report (31 Oct 2023)

D1.3 Test protocol for effect-based in-vitro toxicity assessment of disinfection by products – public report (31 Oct 2023)

D1.4 A proof-of-concept of a passive sampler for microorganism sampling, with potential for patenting the developed methodology – public report (31 Oct 2024)

D1.5 Protocols for testing materials in contact with disinfected water, integrating batch- and continuous-flow conditions – public report (31 Oct 2024)

D2.1 Report on seasonal bacteria fluctuation in raw water of non-disinfected case study sites in Northern Germany – public report (31 Oct 2024)

D2.2 Report on material properties of conductive membrane for optimal disinfection by-product precursor removal – public report (30 Apr 2024)

D2.3 Application guideline about disinfection-by-product precursor removal by different materials – public report (31 Oct 2024)

D2.4 Report on natural organic matter transformation via ozone oxidation and advanced oxidation processes – public report (31 Oct 2025)

D3.2 Disinfection-by-product prediction models – documentation (31 Jan 2026)

D3.3 Guideline for monitoring water quality and management of disinfection by-products in drinking water distribution networks – public report (30 Apr 2026)

D4.1 A set of climate change scenarios and related impacts summarised through infographics, and guidelines for tipping point identification – public report (30 Jun 2024)

D4.2 Guidelines to develop and validate soft sensors for target contaminants, as backbone of an early-warning system – public report (31 Oct 2025)

D4.3 An integrated modelling framework for risk management optimization, combining Effect-Based-Trigger, Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment and Quantitative Chemical Risk Assessment (31 Dec 2025)

D4.4 Policy brief to support unavoidable transition from non-disinfected to disinfected drinking water supply systems – policy brief (28 Feb 2026)

D5.2 Project website and flyer release – public documentation (28 Feb 2023)

D5.4 Climate-resilient management for safe water supply systems – Final public report (30 Apr 2026)

D5.5 Policy brief regarding disinfection and disinfection-by-products – policy brief (31 Jan 2026)

D5.6 Summary of communication and clustering activities in year 1 – public report (31 Dec 2023)

D5.7 Midterm review of communication and dissemination activities and plans – public report (30 Apr 2025)

D5.9 Final summary of clustering, dissemination and communication activities and plans beyond project – public report (30 Apr 2026)

D6.2 Data Management Plan – Initial – documentation (30 Apr 2023)

D6.3 Public summary of midterm achievements (excerpt) – public report (31 Oct 2024)

D6.4 Data Management Plan – midterm – documentation (30 Apr 2025)

D6.5 Data Management Plan – final – documentation (30 Apr 2026)

D7.1 State of DW production in western Ukraine & future outlook – report (30 Apr 2025)

D7.2 Water Safety Plans for small DWSS: public summary (31 Oct 2025)

D7.3 CEWM roadmap: public summary (30 Apr 2026)

ZeroPollution4Water resources

Webinars conducted by SafeCREW

In cooperation with the ZeroPollution4Water Cluster and H2OforALL

Press releases

SafeCREW featured in the press

Communication Kit