Author: Margarete Remmert-Rieper
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World Water Day 2024: Leveraging water for peace
As climate change impacts increase, and populations grow, there is an urgent need, within and between countries, to unite around protecting and conserving our most precious resource. In our SafeCREW project we aim to contribute to the protection of our drinking water by developing tools and guidelines so that disinfected as well as non-disinfected drinking…
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SafeCREW project meeting in Tarragona
Today, 21 March 2024, and tomorrow we will meet for the fourth time since the SafeCREW project has started in November 2022. This time, our partners Consorci d’Aigües de Tarragona (CAT) and EURECAT offer us their hospitality. This first day we will spend in the premises of CAT in Ampolla, the second day we will…
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Subscribe to our ZeroPollution4Water Newsletter
We are looking forward to the first newsletter of the ZeroPollution4Water Cluster. Seven European funded projects join forces in the ZeroPollution4Water Cluster. Together with our sister projects ToDrinQ, intoDBP, Ninfa, H2OforAll, Mar2Protect, Upwater and with Water Europe we are working on clean groundwater and a sustainable drinking water supply. Subscribe now
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WEBINAR: DBPs – Monitoring, treatment and regulation
On 25 March 2024, 15:00 – 16:30 (CET), H2Oforall and SafeCREW are hosting their second joint webinar on disinfection by products to which we would like to invite you. Three speakers will talk about “DBPs – Monitoring, treatment and regulation“. This webinar will broaden the view beyond Europe and offer insights into regulation of DBPs…
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First ZeroPollution4Water Webinar conducted
“All about DBP (disinfection byproducts)” has been the title of the first ZeroPollution4Water Cluster Webinar which took place on 30 November 2023. H2OforAll and SafeCREW have been the organisers of the webinar which attracted about 90 participants. The participants had the chance to learn about the projects and their contributions to our future and drinking…
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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…