Ecofilae partner of the Suwanu Europe project
18/06/2021
Ecofilae is a partner in the SUWANU EUROPE project dedicated to the transfer of knowledge in Europe on water reuse in agriculture.
SUWANU EUROPE is part of the European Commission's Horizon 2020 funding programme under the theme "Thematic networks compiling knowledge ready for practice".
Through 8 target regions in Europe and 20 partners specialised in water reuse, the project aims to gather and disseminate knowledge and feedback from the international scientific world to local stakeholders in water reuse for agriculture.
Working groups per target region have been set up in order to establish a long-term link between the different stakeholders concerned by water reuse in agriculture: researchers, farmers, municipalities, water industrialists, institutional partners, etc.
Several productions, easily accessible and synthetic, are made available to the actors:
- 30 Info-Packages on specific problematics related to water reuse in agriculture.
- 1. Farmers/Irrigators
- 1.1. Implications of using reclaimed water to obtain labels such as global gap: facts and figures
- 1.2. Effects of reclaimed water on crop quality and yield: facts and figures
- 1.3. Irrigation equipment adapted to the use of reclaimed water (e.g. drippers): facts and figures
- 1.4. Decision support systems to monitor irrigation patterns and fertilization needs when using reclaimed water.
- 1.5. Using reclaimed water in organic farming: facts and figures
- 2. Agricultural Advisory Services
- 2.1. Cost benefit analysis and feasibility of using reclaimed water
- 2.2. Irrigation schemes when using reclaimed water: Braunschweig case study
- 2.3. Water and fertilizer savings when using reclaimed water: facts and figures
- 2.4. Using reclaimed water in closed hydroponic systems requires focus on sodium
- 2.5. Water reuse initiatives in agriculture in Europe: facts and figures
- 3. Water Reclamation Operators
- 3.1. Reclaimed Water quality requirements: facts and figures
- 3.2. Contaminants of emerging concern (importance, fate in the environment, technologies to remove them, ecological impacts)
- 3.3. Antibiotic resistance and its health impacts linked to irrigation with reclaimed water
- 3.4. Key for success in Israel and Cyprus: Main concepts in their water reuse strategy
- 3.5. Phosphorus recovery in water reuse
- 4. Water Engineering Companies
- 4.1. Filtration membranes and new filter materials
- 4.2. Sensors and other innovative tools for monitoring reclaimed water quality: facts and figures
- 4.3. Light-driven technologies for producing reclaimed water
- 4.4. Nature based options for water reclamation processes
- 4.5. Other technologies for water reclamation
- 5. Consumers and General Public
- 5.1. Environmental benefits of irrigation with reclaimed water: facts and figures
- 5.2. Organoleptic studies of agricultural products irrigated with reclaimed water: facts and figures
- 5.3. Public perception and consumer acceptance of agricultural products irrigated with reclaimed water
- 5.4. AKIS & Stakeholders analysis: Improving knowledge transfer channels to foster innovation: facts and figures
- 5.5. Communicating the use of reclaimed water for agricultural irrigation: How to transfer a positive image of using reclaimed water
- 6. Authorities and Policy Makers
- 6.1. New EU Regulation on reclaimed water for agricultural irrigation
- 6.2. Water Reuse Risk Management Plans
- 6.3. Water resources governance (e.g. need to incorporate reclaimed water into integrated water resources management)
- 6.4. Strategic planning for the use of reclaimed water in agricultural irrigation (the planning process to develop SUWANU EUROPE action plans
- 6.5. Confronting barriers for agricultural irrigation with reclaimed water and promoting synergies in geographical clusters
- 1. Farmers/Irrigators
- A comparative focus on the 8 regions (Occitanie in France) with a specific regional action plan
- Training workshops consisting of 3 webinars offered by Ecofilae :
- June 24, 2020 : "How to succeed in a water reuse project"
- December 10, 2020 : “Water reuse : update on the EU regulation and European feedback!”
- January 21, 2021 : “Water reuse → The territories already launched come to testify!” With European and French case studies and the intervention of Laetitia Carbonell, Director of Sable de Camargue Vineyards and member of the Suwanu Occitanie Regional Working Group, who will come to present the project (currently being set up) to irrigate vinyard with treated water from the WWTP of Marseillan.
- An E-Learning platform offering videos (English & 8 others languages) on problematics specific to water reuse in agriculture.
- International Suwanu Europe conference, on May 18th and 19th, 2021.
