Author: Margarete Remmert-Rieper
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29th Drinking Water Colloquium of the DVGW Research Centre TUHH on 12 February 2026
The DVGW Research Centre at TUHH invites you to the 29th Drinking Water Colloquium. The conference will take place at Hamburg University of Technology, Germany, on Thursday, 12 February 2026. Registration is now open and the programme available. Current developments and challenges in German and European water supply will be presented and discussed. SafeCREW will…
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Policy Brief: Advancing NAM/EBM for the Assessment of Disinfection By-Products and Complex Chemical Mixtures in Drinking Water
We are pleased to announce the publication of the new Policy Brief by SafeCREW, calling for the advancement of non-animal-based and effect-based monitoring (NAM/EBM) for the holistic toxicity assessment of chemical mixtures in water. While most current (eco)toxicological assessments still rely on animal-based, single-substance testing, which are costly, slow, and misaligned with sustainability goals, societal…
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ZeroPollution4Water Cluster Event – Towards a Water Pollution-Free Europe
SafeCREW will be part of the ZP4WC event of 4 December 2025 in Brussels during Water Knowledge Europe 2025 Winter Edition. This event marks a key milestone for the cluster. It will serve to welcome and onboard eight new projects, revisit the structure and leadership of the Working Groups, and define a common roadmap for…
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Today live at 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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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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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…