DEMEAU Kick-Off Meeting

Demonstration of Promising Technologies to Address Emerging Pollutants in Water and Waste Water

Event: Conference
Date: 8 - 9 November 2012
Location: The Hague, Netherlands

The European Union-funded project DEMEAU kicked off on 8 and 9 November 2012 at Dunea, the water utility of The Hague and its surrounding area. This event marked the beginning of a three-year demonstration of promising technologies that tackle emerging pollutants in water and wastewater. DEMEAU promotes the uptake of prototypes and practices from previous EU research projects, including promoting initiatives in the water sector to deal with emerging pollutants. Please visit the newly launched DEMEAU website for further information about the project and news stories about recent developments.

DEMEAU will investigate four groups of promising technologies: managed aquifer recharge, hybrid ceramic membrane filtration, hybrid advanced oxidation processes and bioassays, as well as the methodology of life-cycle assessment.

The DEMEAU project will showcase the suitability and cost-effectiveness of the technologies through demonstrating them at the launching utilities. The demonstrations will transfer the knowledge to other potential users and generate market opportunities for the SME’s involved. DEMEAU seeks cooperation with relevant policy makers, regulators and standardization bodies on the Member State and the European level to address barriers to and to promote the implementation of promising technologies in water and waste water treatment.

The kick-off meeting brought together all partners of the DEMEAU consortium and created a basis for the research, technology development and demonstration for the following project years. The DEMEAU consortium, led by KWR Watercycle Research Institute, consists of 17 members from five different EU countries, and it includes members from universities, research institutions, innovative SME’s, water utilities and policymakers.

The kick-off meeting at The Hague was the follow-up to a joint kick-off meeting organized by the European Commission DG Research and Innovation with the successful applicants to the FP7-ENV-2012 call on resource efficiency that was held on the 16 and 17 of October. The objective of this joint meeting was to enable all project participants to meet, to share experiences and to explore potential synergies for clustering or potentially cooperating with other relevant initiatives.

Bioassays – The Need for Target Values for Micropollutants

Year 2013

Publication:Report

The DEMEAU project followed a solutions-oriented approach using applied research and demonstration sites, and explored four promising technologies for emerging contaminants removal and/or degradation: Managed Aquifer Recharge, Hybrid Ceramic Membrane Filtration, Automatic Neural Net Control Systems and Advanced Oxidation Techniques.

Tackling Emerging Contaminants in Drinking and Wastewater

Year 2018

Publication:Brochure

In total, four technology brochures were published by the DEMEAU consortium. They cover the technologies bioassays, ANCS, AOT and MAR. The technology brochures are aimed at utilities, water associations and technology suppliers. Therefore, they present information with a high level of technical detail.

DEMEAU Technology Brochures – Brochures Series

Year 2015

Publication:Document

The dissemination activities of the DEMEAU project were planned in the beginning of the project and outlined in the dissemination strategy. After three years of project work, we have a look at the achievements of these target group specific dissemination activities.

Dissemination of DEMEAU Outcomes

From Dissemination Strategy to Implementation

Year 2015

Publication:Document

This document sets out a detailed strategy for the communication and dissemination of information stemming from DEMEAU research and activities. It outlines a plan for dissemination activities which connect research outputs with the relevant target audiences by means of the appropriate communication tools.

DEMEAU Dissemination and Communication Strategy

Year 2013

Publication:Article

In October 2015, DEMEAU, a three-year EU-funded FP7 project, made headlines in the release of the German American Water Technology (GAWT) Magazine. The cover of the latest edition of the magazine features the article entitled "New Approaches & Technologies for Tackling Emerging Pollutants in Drinking & Wastewater." The article authored by Ecologic Institute's Ulf Stein, Evelyn Lukat, and Anna Bee Szendrenyi sheds light on key findings from the DEMEAU project, which recently concluded in August 2015. The article is available for download.

New Approaches & Technologies For Tackling Emerging Pollutants In Drinking & Wastewater

Year 2015

Publication:Video

Is your drinking water clean? Is it safe to drink? In the last two decades, the presence of new chemical compounds called emerging pollutants has been detected in wastewater, aquatic environments, and drinking water. Emerging pollutants result from a variety of human processes and do not break down easily and therefore accumulate in our environment. The animation illustrates what emerging pollutants are, how they enter water sources, and what role individuals can take in improving the quality of their drinking water. Watch the animation, and please share it!

Dare to Drink? Emerging Pollutants in Our Water

Year 2015

Publication:Newsletter

The water and wastewater sectors face tremendous challenges to assure safe, cost-effective, and sustainable water supply and sanitation services. Detecting and treating emerging pollutants has become a critical need in these sectors. Innovative technologies could hold the key to solving these challenges. To support the market penetration and broader application of innovative methods and technologies in the water and wastewater sectors, DEMEAU cooperates with relevant policy makers, regulators, and standardisation bodies as well as with technology producers and users on the national and EU level. The DEMEAU newsletter delivers insights and shares developments within the DEMEAU FP7 project.

DEMEAU Newsletter

Year 2013 - 2015

Project:FP 7

DEMEAU is a three-year EU FP7-funded project to demonstrate promising technologies that tackle emerging pollutants in water and wastewater. DEMEAU provides environmental impact and costs assessments (i.e. life cycle assessment and life cost assessment) and showcases four groups of technologies: managed aquifer recharge, hybrid ceramic membrane filtration, hybrid advanced oxidation and bioassays. The objective of DEMEAU is to demonstrate the suitability and cost-effectiveness of innovative methods and technologies to reduce levels of emerging pollutants in water and wastewater.

Demonstration of Promising Technologies to Address Emerging Pollutants in Water and Waste Water (DEMEAU)

Sep 2012 - Aug 2015

Funding: European Commission, Directorate-General Research & Innovation (DG Research & Innovation), International
Organizer: KWR Watercycle Research Institute (KWR), Netherlands

Dunea Duin & Water (dunea), Netherlands

Ecologic Institute, Germany
Team: Dr. Ulf Stein

Johanna von Toggenburg

Marlene Angela Lange

Brandon Goeller
Date: 8 - 9 November 2012
Location: The Hague, Netherlands
Language: English
Project: Demonstration of Promising Technologies to Address Emerging Pollutants in Water and Waste Water (DEMEAU)
Project ID: 2717
Keywords: Events

Water

Dissemination, knowledge transfer, demonstration, emerging pollutants, water, waste water, communication, uptake, Science-Policy Interface