Author: Margarete Remmert-Rieper
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kk23 Climate Congress at University Hamburg
On 21 September 2023, SafeCREW researcher Mathias Ernst talked about “Water resources and water supply in times of climate change” at the sixth Climate Congress at the University Hamburg. More than 650 high school students used the opportunity to exchange ideas with scientists and experts with the goal to understand climate change better and find…
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Proud to present: The ZeroPollution4Water Cluster at Water Projects Europe 2023
The ZeroPollution4Water Cluster will have its first public presentation on 19th October 2023 at Water Projects Europe 2023 in Brussels. SafeCREW and six sister projects, all fundedy by Horizon Europe under the ZeroPollution Call in 2022, have joined forces to reach out to more water professionals, policy makers and regulators and to increase the uptake…
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Field work at the waterworks in Berlin has started
Kompetenzzentrum Wasser Berlin (KWB), in cooperation with Berliner Wasserbetriebe, has started their field work at the waterworks. The waterworks in Berlin are part of SafeCREW Case Study 1, which represents near-natural non-disinfected drinking water supply. The two largest cities in Germany, Berlin and Hamburg, have water treatment chains and drinking water distribution networks without disinfection,…
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SafeCREW at the GRC on water disinfection, byproducts and health: Poster Award and Discussion Leader
Our colleagues Maolida Nihemati (UFZ) and Beatrice Cantoni (POLIMI) presented their posters at the GRC Gordon Research Conference on water disinfection, byproducts and health. We congratulate Maolida to get the Poster Award as one of three winners. Maolida works on the challenge to identify polar disinfection-byproducts on drinking water; her poster is entitled “Revisiting disinfection…
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Second IWA Digital Water Summit in November 23 in Bilbao
The IWA Digital Water Summit centres around the digitalisation for the global water sector. Building on its first edition in 2022, the IWA Digital Water Summit returns to Bilbao, Spain on 14-16 November 2023. The event brings together industry experts, technology companies, utilities, and researchers in digital water to address current and future challenges in the water sector. The Digital…
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Eurecat poster presentation at the IWA ecoSTP conference 2023 in Girona
Last week several SAFECREW researchers from POLIMI and EURECAT participated at the 6th IWA International Conference on eco-Technologies for Wastewater Treatment (ecoSTP-23) congress. Laura Vinardell, from Eurecat Manresa, presented the poster “Synergistic cytotoxicity of specific combination of water disinfection by-products assessed by bacterial reverse mutation tests”. Girona (Catalonia, Spain) hosted ecoSTP-23 from 26 to 29…
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Visit of ver.di Federal Specialist Group Water Sector at DVGW research centre at TUHH
As part of their annual Water Management Seminar, the ver.di Federal Specialist Group Water Sector took the opportunity to visit the SafeCREW team at DVGW research centre at TUHH on 6 July 2023. The SafeCREW research fits well to this year’s programme “Future of drinking water supply and wastewater treatment despite shortage of skilled workers…
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Award for SafeCREW poster on removal of DBP precursors in drinking water
Jon Wullenweber, PhD candidate at DVGW research centre at TUHH, presented his current research on 12 June 2023 at the first Workshop of TUHH Research Cluster “Biobased Processes and Reactor Technologies”. The poster displays research results on “Chlorine based disinfection byproduct (DBP) precursors removal during drinking water treatment”. During the poster sessions, the poster stimulated…
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SafeCREW meeting at POLIMI
On 11 and 12 May 2023 the second project meeting of SafeCREW took place in Milan. On the first evening, the team was hosted by our partner MM in the Water Museum Milan and learned about the start of waterworks in Italy. The second day we were hosted by POLIMI. We looked at the achievements…
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SafeCREW researcher promotes International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2023
With this post, we’d like to introduce our colleague Laura Vinardell Magre, PhD candidate at Eurecat, and her engagement in the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on 11 February 2023. In her own words: “Last month was the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (11th of February). In this sense,…