Category: utilities
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Insights from 4th International School on Water Reuse (ISWR)
For S afeCREW Alla Kucherova and Serhii Kunytskyi, from the National University of Water & Environmental Engineering, Ukraine took part
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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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Water pollution: Council and Parliament reach provisional deal to update priority substances in surface and ground waters
The Council presidency and the European Parliament’s representatives reached a provisional political agreement on a proposed directive to review and update the lists of pollutants affecting surface waters and groundwater and corresponding regulatory standards. This agreement updates environmental quality standards for a number of pollutants and adds new ones, aligning EU water policy with 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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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…
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NUWEE study visit to Eurecat in May 2025
Between 12 May 2025 and 16 May 2025 the NUWEE researchers visited their colleagues from CAT and Eurecat in Spain. CAT and Eurecat are working on SafeCREW Case Study #3, L’Ampolla drinking water treatment plant. They aim to improve the climate change resilience of the Tarragona water supply system. The L’Ampolla drinking water treatment plant…
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EU Green Week Partner Event 2025 of the ZP4W Cluster: Presentations now available
Our EUGreenWeek 2025 Partner Event: “ZeroPollution4Water Cluster: Unlocking solutions: 32 Case Studies For Zero-Pollution drinking and groundwater” on 20 June 2025 offered inspiring insights into the achievements of the seven sister projects H2OforAll, intoDBP, Mar2protect, NINFA, ToDrinQ, UPWATER, and SafeCREW. The event hosted by Water Europe attracted 50 participants in the virtual room and additional…
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Join our EU Green Week Partner Event – Unlocking solutions
On 20 June 2025, 10:00 – 12:30, the official EU Green Week Partner Event organised by the ZeroPollution4Water Cluster will take place. The online webinar is dedicated to unlocking innovative solutions for achieving zero-pollution in our vital drinking and groundwater resources. It will present the new publication, “ZeroPollution4Water Cluster: overview and inventory of 32 case studies…