Category: News
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UN World Water Day 2025: Save Our Glaciers
On World Water Day 2025, the theme “Save Our Glaciers” emphasises the crucial role glaciers play in our ecosystem and highlights the urgency of addressing climate change. World Water Day 2025 kicks of the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation to stress their importance in regulating the global climate and providing freshwater to nearly 2 billion…
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SafeCREW’s sixth projectmeeting in Berlin
From 13th to 14th March 2025, the project team met in person for the sixth time. This time the Kompetenzzentrum Wasser, Berlin and the Umweltbundesamt – German Environment Agency were the hosts and they gave many exciting insights and progress on One highlight of the meeting was the presence of NUWEE, our Ukrainian partner, who…
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ZP4W cluster report on 32 groundwater and drinking water case studies published on EC publications website
We are pleased to announce that the ZeroPollution4Water (ZP4W) Cluster report on the inventory of 32 case studies in drinking and groundwater has now been officially published on the Europe website. This significant achievement marks a crucial step in supporting the EU Water Resilience Strategy and aligns with the upcoming World Water Day on 22…
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Resilience to climate change: how to guarantee the quality of drinking water
The event titled “Resilience against climate change: how we guarantee the quality of drinking water” was designed as a public results presentation of the SafeCREW project, including a Case Study site visit. Almost a hundred people from Catalan utilities, local government and municipalities, research centers, water associations and water related companies gathered for the event.…
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WEBINAR: Preparing drinking water supply systems for climate change – case study insights
On 3 April 2025 15:00 – 16:30 (CET), H2Oforall and SafeCREW are hosting their fifth joint webinar to which we would like to invite you. We will focus on ‘Preparing drinking water supply systems for climate change – case study insights‘. The webinar will provide preliminary results of four case studies located in Portugal, Spain,…
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Invitation to survey on climate resilient water supply
SafeCREW’s survey on practices in EU water utilities shall give us information about the present practices and needs of water utilities. We would like to gather insights about the current situation and expectations for the future of climate resilient drinking water management in water utilities. The results shall support SafeCREW in developing tools and guidelines…
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Register for the Open Day at L’Ampolla Drinking Water Treatment Plant
SafeCREW partners Consorci d’Aigües de Tarragona and Eurecat are organising an Open Day on 7 March 2025 at L’Ampolla Drinking Water Treatment Plant in Tarragona, Catalonia (see map). The event will start at 10 a.m. and registration is now open. The Open Day will include a top level technical conference “Resilience to climate change: how…
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Watch our webinar Precursors of disinfection by-products
The third webinar “DBPs – Precursors of disinfection by-products,” in collaboration with the H2OforAll project, again was a great success! Over 100 attendees joined us! Recording here Shownotes of the video (in minutes) Minute 01:45: DBPs precursors: Origin, structural characteristics, reactivity, Jean Philippe Croue, Professor in Environmental Engineering at Université de Poitiers Minute 47:45: Novel…
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Watch our webinar “Drinking Water Systems Modelling and Digitalization”
On 3 December 2024, H2OforAll and SafecREW conducted their fourth common webinar, which has again been a great success. More than 60 participants listened to the four presentations on “Drinking Water Systems Modelling and Digitalization” and engaged in the disscussion. If you missed the opportunity or if you want to recap the webinar, the recording…
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SafeCREW research on DBP at Winter School 2024 in Porto
The Winter School on Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CECs) and Disinfection By-Products (DBPs) 2024 brought together 250 researchers, professionals, and students to explore the latest advancements in understanding and managing contaminants and by-products in water treatment processes. As part of the event, Jon Wullenweber (DVGW-TUHH) together with Mattia Stefanoni (POLIMI) presented a poster on Natural…