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Work Packages

WP1 - Demonstrating innovative treatment processes and reuse scheme operation

Although current technology is capable of reaching the quality requirements of all water reuse regulations, operational and capital costs still remain one of the main barriers that limit the widespread implementation of water reuse schemes. Innovative technologies and treatment schemes must decrease the overall cost of water reuse by increasing performance and adapting the treatment to site and end-use specific conditions.

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WP2 - Process monitoring and performance control

WP2 aims at demonstrating advanced monitoring and control options for water recycling schemes which enable better understanding of contaminant fate and safe operation of full-scale systems. The inherent risk in water recycling stems from the wide range and potential negative impact of contaminants in wastewater. Treatment technologies and appropriate use practices are able to mitigate those risks but the range of contaminants of concern gets wider with an ever growing spectrum of organisms and chemicals detected in reclaimed wastewater as the analytical capacities increase.

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WP3 - Risk management and environmental benefit analysis

Work package 3 will demonstrate how the socio-economic benefits of water reuse schemes can be maximized while negative health and environmental impacts are kept to an acceptable level, using state-of-the-art methods for the assessment and management of environmental and human health risks. Moreover, a holistic and sound basis for decision making will be elaborated by combining the methods for risk assessment, life cycle assessment and water resource impact assessment, thus taking into account both local (direct) effects as well as regional/global (indirect) health and environmental impacts.

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WP4 - Business models and princing strategies

Water reuse face numerous global barriers, including lack of sustainable business models to commercialize properly its products, pricing properly the resource while taking into account other economic factors; tackling regulatory challenges; or even overcoming public perception due to lack of public education

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WP5 - Governance for water reuse: policy, public engagement and stakeholder collaboration

The general objective of WP5 is to demonstrate the governance barriers that water reuse schemes face in daily practice and the response strategies that stakeholders involved have developed or could potentially develop in order to deal with these barriers. This will be done by learning from both existing practices in DEMOWARE demonstration sites and from international experiences.

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WP6 - Demonstration of the project outcomes in an integrated case study: the Vendée Greenfield site

The Vendée Department relies mainly on surface water for its two main water needs (drinking water and crop irrigation), as the groundwater resource is scarce. Hence during summer, when the river flows are very low, the whole area relies on reservoirs. The peak water demand occurs in summer due to tourism on the coast and crop irrigation. As the water level in the reservoir depends on the precipitation occurring during fall and winter, additional water resource coming from reuse would contribute to secure the amount of water stored in those reservoirs and to avoid water shortage due to an increasing water demand forecasted for the next 10 years. Nevertheless, Vendée is a greenfield site for planned water reuse.

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WP7 - Dissemination

The overall objective of WP7 is to ensure a high impact and knowledge of the project outputs to promote a wider understanding and awareness of water reuse practices among public administrations and end-users in order to increase utilisation of reclaimed water and include water reuse in an integrated water management. This entails the development of an integrated communication strategy based upon an understanding of both the barriers and facilitators.

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WP8 - Exploitation and growth

The overarching ambition of this Work Package is to create and nurture an identity and knowledge base for the nascent European water reuse sector. It will provide a favoured point of reference for businesses, public sector bodies, and civil society groups which both offers targeted information and facilitates communication and collaboration opportunities amongst individuals and organisations.

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