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

ZeroPollution4Water

ZeroPollution4Water Cluster

What is the cluster?

The ZeroPollution4Water Cluster is an initiative that originated from the coalition of seven different projects funded from the calls for proposals HORIZON-CL6-2022-ZEROPOLLUTION-01-01 and 01-04, that revolve around two main themes: Preventing groundwater contamination and protecting its quality against harmful impacts of global and climate change and securing drinking water quality by protecting water sources against pollution, providing innovative monitoring and treatment solutions, and ensuring safe distribution.

Objectives

Focused on the European Union’s Zero Pollution ambition and the European Green Deal, the cluster aims to improve water quality, safeguard drinking water sources, and protect groundwater against the harmful impacts of global and climate change.

By leveraging the collaboration and synergies between the collaborative projects funded through Horizon Europe, the cluster aims to develop advanced preventive and mitigating strategies, effective risk assessment and management systems, and innovative monitoring and treatment solutions for drinking water and groundwater.

Expected Impacts

This effort, with the continued support of the EC services such as project advisers and policy officers of the EC REA and DGs, intends to build a critical mass of knowledge and expertise to effectively contribute with the concrete evidence-based examples from case studies and to propose recommendations on water effective management from the perspective of a wider drinking water cycle (from source to tap including drinking water networks), as well as from the zero-pollution strategy viewpoint. In this way the cluster is aiming to contribute to: (a) policy shaping and implementation, (b) identification of new R&I’s challenges, and (c) exploitation of results to achieve a Water-Smart Society.

Founding projects

  • H2OforAll (1 Nov 2022-31 Oct 2025)
    Innovative Integrated Tools and Technologies to Protect and Treat Drinking Water from Disinfection Byproducts (DBPs)
    Coordinator: UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA, Portugal
  • intoDBP (1 Dec 2022-30 Nov 2026)
    Innovative tools to control organic matter and disinfection byproducts in drinking water
    Coordinator: FUNDACIO INSTITUT CATALA DE RECERCA DE L’AIGUA, Spain
  • ToDrinQ (1 Dec 2022-30 Nov 2026)
    TOolkit for aDaptable, Resilient INstallations securing high Quality drinking water
    Coordinator: TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT, Netherlands
  • NINFA (1 Nov 2022-30 April 2026)
    NINFA – TakiNg actIoN to prevent and mitigate pollution oF groundwAter bodies
    Coordinator: ACONDICIONAMIENTO TARRASENSE ASSOCIACION, Spain
  • UPWATER (1 Nov 2022-30 April 2026)
    UPWater – Understanding groundwater Pollution to protect and enhance WATERquality
    Coordinator: AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS, Spain
  • MAR2PROTECT (1 Dec 2022-30 Nov 2026)
    MAR2PROTECT -Preventing Groundwater Contamination Related to Global and Climate Change Through a Holistic Approach on Managed Aquifer Recharge
    Coordinator: NOVA ID FCT, Portugal

ZeroPollution4Water resources

ZeroPollution4Water Webinars – Recordings