Objective
The ability of Europe’s communities to respond to increasing water stress by taking advantage of water reuse opportunities is restricted by low public confidence in solutions, inconsistent approaches to evaluating costs and benefits of reuse schemes, and poor coordination of the professionals and organisations who design, implement and manage them. The DEMOWARE initiative will rectify these shortcomings by executing a highly collaborative programme of demonstration and exploitation, using nine existing and one greenfield site to stimulate innovation and improve cohesion within the evolving European water reuse sector. The project is guided by SME & industry priorities and has two central ambitions; to enhance the availability and reliability of innovative water reuse solutions, and to create a unified professional identity for the European Water Reuse sector. By deepening the evidence base around treatment processes and reuse scheme operation (WP1), process monitoring and performance control (WP2), and risk management and environmental benefit analysis (WP3) DEMOWARE will improve both operator and public confidence in reuse schemes. It will also advance the quality and usefulness of business models and pricing strategies (WP4) and generate culturally and regulatory regime specific guidance on appropriate governance and stakeholder collaboration processes (WP5). Project outcomes will guide the development of a live in-development water reuse scheme in the Vendée (WP6). Dissemination (WP7) and exploitation (WP8) activities, including the establishment of a European Water Reuse Association, ensure that DEMOWARE will shape market opportunities for European solution providers and provide an environment for the validation and benchmarking of technologies and tools. Ultimately the DEMOWARE outcomes will increase Europe’s ability to profit from the resource security and economic benefits of water reuse schemes without compromising human health and environmental integrity.
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Call for proposal
FP7-ENV-2013-WATER-INNO-DEMO
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Funding Scheme
CP - Collaborative project (generic)Coordinator
08243 MANRESA BARCELONA
Spain
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Participants (29)
5210 Windisch
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MK43 0AL Cranfield - Bedfordshire
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00185 Roma
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08140 Caldes De Montbui Barcelona
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3433 PE NIEUWEGEIN
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10825 BERLIN
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68000 Colmar
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08036 BARCELONA
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08019 Barcelona
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71048 STORNERELLA
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36000 QIRYAT TIV ON
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08202 Sabadell
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78172 ASHKELON
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10587 BERLIN
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SP4 7RT WILTSHIRE
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619 00 Brno
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28003 Madrid
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61201 Tel Aviv
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RG1 8DB Reading
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75008 Paris
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28529 RIVAS VACIAM MADRID
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1049 Bruxelles / Brussel
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70126 Bari
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8670 KOKSIJDE
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85036 LA ROCHE SUR YON CEDEX
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08225 Terrassa
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70124 BARI
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30612 QIRYAT TIVON
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31250 HAIFA
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