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H2OforAll

H2OforAll project aims to assess main Disinfection By products (DBPs) sources through the development of fast, cost-effective and accurate sensor monitoring devices and by modelling their spread through drinking water distribution systems. DBPs toxicity and environmental impact will be studied and measures will be proposed to protect drinking water chain.

Breakthrough water treatments to remove DBPs or avoid their formation during water disinfection processes will be developed, paying attention to their life cycle analysis, costs and risks. A Central Knowledge Base with reliable data on the occurrence of DBPs in the EU and their effects will be created to increase awareness and engagement of society and governmental organizations about these drinking water contaminants and favour new policy responses and guidance.

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Objectives 

Assess main DBPs sources and fate by developing suitable analytical techniques for monitoring such compounds and modelling their spreading through drinking systems

Create a central knowledge base with the occurrence of DBPs in Europe

Evaluate DBPs environmental and health impacts while proposing measures to protect drinking water whole chain and soil (bearing in mind the role of soil health in the quality of freshwater)

Propose cutting-edge water disinfection technologies to prevent DBPs formation as well as treatments to remove them when their formation is unavoidable

Analyse life cycle and risks for the new technologies and materials proposed (adsorbents, catalysts, etc.)

Increase public and policy-makers awareness for DBPs issues by providing reliable data for new policy responses and guidance

Work  plan

Coordination and Management

DBPs Sensing, Analysis and Visualizations

Environmental Impacts Risk Assessment of DBPs and Prevention Measures Analysis

Advanced and Cost-Effective Treatment Technologies for Drinking Water

Environmental and economic sustainability assessment

Guidance on Measures, Policy and Public Engagement

Dissemination, Communication and Exploitation

Consortium 

H2OforAll is a Horizon Europe project funded by the European Commission aligned with the European Green Deal for zero pollution.

University of Coimbra
COORDINATOR

UC has a strong background in water treatment technologies development as well as water characterization. UC is responsible for project coordination and management.
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Environment Consulting
Engineering (DHVMED)

DHV brings the know-how regarding drinking water prevention strategies and regulation.
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Universitat
ULM

UULM will bring knowledge in technologies for sensing persistent molecular pollutants in aquatic systems.
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Iris Technology Solutions
(IRIS)

IRIS is an advanced engineering company, certified under ISO 9001:2008 and UNEEN- ISO 166002, specialized in process monitoring, control and optimization.
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Cyens Centre Of Excellence
(CYENS)

CYENS develops algorithms and methods to model water distribution networks to detect vulnerabilities to water contamination threats for selecting the most relevant monitoring. Besides this will allow to shade light regarding DBPs formation pathways, fate along the distribution network as well as their interaction with pipes and naturally occurring materials
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University Of Haifa
(UH)

UHaifa will explore the simultaneous adsorption and oxidation process for pollutants abatement from source water and DBPs removal from drinking water.
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Uniwersytet Gdanski
(UG)

UGdansk has large experience in photocatalytic water treatments and photo-materials preparation will be used to degrade contaminants from water and drinking water.
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Kunglica Tekniska Hogskolan
(KTH)

KTH will apply their know-how in magnetic bio-activated carbons from biomass waste to remove contaminants from water while easily recovering the adsorbent.
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Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação (SPI)

SPI is the Leader of Work package 7: Dissemination, communication and exploitation.
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Universiteit Twente
(UT)

UT has a strong expertise in the development of sensing infrastructures for the monitoring of water quality.
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Advanced Environmental Technologies Lda (ADVENTECH)

Adventech will help to identify synergies between all the materials/processes developed and optimized and select the most suitable ones for scale-up and to build a fully automated transportable lab-pilot scale unit that will be tested under semi-industrial conditions.
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Water Europe
(WE)

Water Europe is the recognized voice and promotor of water related R&D and innovation in Europe. With over 250 members across Europe on board, WE is recognised by the European Commission as the industry-led European Technology Platform (ETP) for Water. Leveraging from its extensive network and experience in projects, WE will play an important role into the dissemination and policy work packages aiming to maximize the impact of the project activities and results.
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Atlantium Technologies Ltd (ATLANTIUM)

Atlantium has strong expertise in UV disinfection technologies that will complement/substitute the current approaches.
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Ivl Svenska Miljoinstitutet Ab
(IVL)

IVL will assess and compare the LCA and LCC of the novel integrated water treatment and disinfection technologies compared with the conventional approaches to reach the most cost-effective and sustainable methodology.
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Águas De Coimbra EM
(ADC)

Águas de Coimbra (AC) manages the water distribution network of Coimbra city and will provide water samples, process water quality data, perform hydraulic and quality modelling through the network, support the field demonstration of the developed sensing infrastructure and promote citizens awareness and engagement on water quality.
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Stichting Wetsus, European Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Water Technology (WETSUS)

Wetsus will bring the know-how on the cost-effective and high-resolution methods for detecting the selected molecules and the materials they interact with.
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University of Leicester
(ULEIC)

ULeic has a strong expertise on toxicity assessment through multi-criteria decision-making techniques and will help prioritizing the most dangerous DBPs as well as to evaluate the novel water treatment/disinfection technologies proposed
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University of Leeds
(UNIVLEEDS)

ULeeds has large experience in participatory crowd-sensing approaches for increasing citizens’ awareness and engaging with policy-making stakeholders (e.g. development of collective decision-making platforms such as Smart-Agora, EPOS, etc.).
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Advisory Board  

H2OforAll is a Horizon Europe project funded by the European Commission aligned with the European Green Deal for zero pollution.


Águas do Centro Litoral

Águas do Centro Litoral

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Waterschap Vechtstromen

Waterschap Vechtstromen

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Netherlands Institute of Ecology

Netherlands Institute of Ecology

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Ministry of Health of Israel

Ministry of Health of Israel

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Evonik Industries AG

Evonik Industries AG

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ERSAR

ERSAR

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