Events

Click here for the poster presentation titled:

“A Novel Hybrid Photocatalytic System for water purification: application to groundwater remediation and aquifer recharging” (C. Christophoridis, E. Bizani, D. Iossifidis, A. Kallioras, K. Dimitriadis, C. Makropoulos) 

Greener than Green Technologies

Wednesday August 29, 2018, 13:30 – 16:30 Brussels (Crown Plaza Brussels, Le Palace)

Thursday August 30, 2018, field site visit ASR reuse Dinteloord (departure and return from Crown Plaza Brussels, Le Palace, Brussels)

The SUBSOL - bringing coastal SUBsurface water SOLutions to the market - project concludes with a final seminar on coastal water supply and reuse on Wednesday August 29 and a site visit to the ASR reuse facility Dinteloord on Thursday August 30. The program is open for businesses, policy makers, end users, researchers and other stakeholders dealing with freshwater supply in coastal areas. To register for these events, please click here

Scope

The potential role of treated wastewater reuse as an alternative source of water supply is well acknowledged within European and national strategies. Water reuse is a top priority area in the Strategic Implementation Plan of the European Innovation Partnership on Water, and recently the European Commission has proposed new rules to stimulate and facilitate water reuse for agricultural irrigation. The subsurface can facilitate water reuse, by balancing the availability of reuse water with times of water demand after subsurface storage, and by improving the quality of the water through soil passage. Two of the SUBSOL replication sites indeed use treated wastewater as a water source.

The seminar brings together reuse experiences from the SUBSOL project, the European Union’s policies and reuse agenda, and experiences from end-users within and outside of Europe. Together we will sketch the prospects for robust future water supply and water reuse in coastal areas, contributing to the agenda for research, policy development and investments in the next decade.

Program

Wednesday August 29, 2018. 13:30 – 16:30. Seminar: Robust future water supply and water reuse in coastal areas. Contributing to the agenda for research, policy development and investments in the next decade.

Thursday August 30, 2018. 09:00 – 17:00. Site visit Dinteloord: Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) to enable water reuse by greenhouse horticulture.

• increased groundwater demand due to economic development and population growth
• over-exploitation of water resources, especially in arid and semi-arid areas
• contamination and quality deterioration of water resource
• characterization of groundwater systems and movement of saline groundwater 
• management and prevention of salinization 
• natural and man-made environmental change

Please find here the abstract.

Click here for the poster.

Niels Hartog (KWR) will give a presentation about Dinteloord.

Over the past 3 years, the EU-funded KINDRA project worked on gathering and standardising groundwater knowledge and research across Europe. Work started with the EU-wide assessment of existing groundwater-related practical and scientific knowledge based on a new Hydrogeological Research Classification System (HRC-SYS), created by the project team. This classification is supported a web-service – the European Inventory of Groundwater Research (EIGR), which acts not only as a knowledge repository but also as a tool that helped identify relevant research topics, existing research trends and critical research challenges.

The National Technical University of Athens was presenting the SUBSOL Knowledge Environment as well as the potential links with Kindra in the Kindra Final conference

http://www.subsol.org/home/article/asr-coastal-finds-application-in-urban-water-management

to be announced

Conference presenting the coastal aquifer storage and recovery (COASTAR) initiative in the Netherland. See http://www.subsol.org/home/article/coastar-towards-large-scale-implementation-of-subsurface-water-solutions

Klaasjan Raat

Koen Zuurbier

On the application of local measures to improve water management in the coastal zone of Belgium.

Koen Zuurbier (KWR)

Topic: Innovative subsurface water solutions (SWS) to improve water management in coastal areas

Objectives

Highlight the specific challenges of securing a sustainable freshwater supply in coastal areas (seawater intrusion, salinization of well fields, limitations of conventional groundwater management applications)

Present solutions to the specific problems of water management in coastal areas supported by data and information about cases studies where these solutions are successfully applied

Discuss how to transfer the benefits of high-tech advanced solutions to low-tech application

BGR

KWR

Adelphi

The session will explore the topical theme of using Nature Based Solutions to address catchment wide hydrological issues (e.g. flood risk management and water quality improvements) in both rural and urban settings.

For further details on this session and instructions on how to submit an abstract please refer to the following link - http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2017/session/22984

Klaus Hinsby (GEUS)

International Symposium on Managed Aquifer Recharge (ISMAR 10) is the main conference (5 days) in the field of managed aquifer recharge and co-organized by the Subsol consortium.

The purpose of the conference will be to stimulate a broadly supported vision on a sustainable world food supply that is based on the interest of farmers as well as on the environment and biodiversity.

Divided on the themes: sustainable agriculture and ecology and ecosystem restoration, sustainable food, water and energy supply, economic and social benefits, food sovereignty and land rights and socialisation of agriculture, projects from Asia, Africa and Latin America will show that a sustainable approach to the region works, motivates people and is beneficial in many ways.

Initiatives, activities, businesses and people from these parts of the world will be associated with Dutch companies, organizations and governments, both during and after the conference.
Lasting relationships between various partners are facilitated and continued through a specifically for this purpose developed website www.sustainablefoodsupply.org.
Dutch companies, industries, research institutes and consultancy firms have the opportunity to present their expertise and techniques at the to the conference linked Table Top Info Market.

The working language of the conference is English.

• Koen Zuurbier (KWR) is invited speaker.

Stakeholder workshop on SWS (specifically: the Dinteloord Replication site)

KWR, DBT, local stakeholders