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.
13:30 – 13:45 |
Walk in and coffee |
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13:45 – 14:00 |
Welcome and today’s scope |
Gerard van den Berg (KWR) |
14:00 – 14:20 |
Subsurface storage enabling water reuse, lessons learned from the SUBSOL project |
Klaasjan Raat (KWR) |
14:20 – 14:40 |
Water reuse in the Europe: EU policy development |
Erik Pentimalli (EASME) |
14:40 – 15:30 |
Experiences from European and int’l end-users, 4 pitches: - Dinteloord, the Netherlands (agriculture) - West-Flanders, Belgium (drinking water) - Maneadero Valley, Mexico (agriculture) - Recife, Brazil (drinking water) |
Piet Janmaat (TOM, D’oord) Alexander Vandenbohede (De Watergroep) Walter Daesslé (UABC) Suzana Gico Montenegro (UFPE) |
15:30 – 16:15 |
Round table discussion: contributing to the EU agenda for research, policy development and investments
Panelists: Christos Makropoulos (NTUA), Ronjon Chakrabarti (adeplhi), Suzana Montenegro (UFPE), Walter Daesslé (UABC), Klaasjan Raat (KWR), European Commission |
Paul Jeffrey (Cranfield University; Water Reuse Europe)
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16:15 – 16:30 |
Wrap up and main conclusions |
Gerard van den Berg (KWR) |
16:30 – 17:30 |
Drinks reception |
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Thursday August 30, 2018. 09:00 – 17:00. Site visit Dinteloord: Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) to enable water reuse by greenhouse horticulture.
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Thursday August 30, 2018. Site visit ASR reuse Dinteloord
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09:00 |
Departure from Karel Rogierplein, Brussels (autobus) |
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10:30 |
Arrival Suiker Unie, Dinteloord, the Netherlands |
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10:45 – 11:00 |
Welcome to sugar factory Dinteloord |
Paul Hagens (Suiker Unie) |
11:00 – 11:15 |
Growing tomatoes on reuse water from sugar beets. The end users perspective |
(KWR / TOM Dinteloord) |
11:15 – 11:45 |
The Dinteloord ASR reuse system: from idea, to design and realization |
Koen Zuurbier (KWR) |
11:45 – 12:15 |
Lunch |
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12:15 – 14:00 |
Visit ASR well field |
Koen Zuurbier (KWR) |
14:00 |
Departure from Suiker Unie (autobus) |
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15:30 |
Expected arrival and drop-off Brussels Airport |
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16:00 |
Expected arrival Karel Rogierplein, Brussels |
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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.
Stakeholder workshop on SWS (specifically: the Dinteloord Replication site)
KWR, DBT, local stakeholders