Maria del Mar Micó, partner from project coordinator ACCIONA, has presented the LIFE PRISTINE project during the 3rd Congress of Spanish Young Water Professionals (YWP) 2022, celebrated on November 16th-19th at the School of Engineering of the University of Valencia (ETSE-UV), Spain.
During her presentation, entitled “Emerging pollutants in the spotlight”, she gave an overview of the LIFE PRISTINE project, focusing on the project’s objectives, technology and demonstration scenarios. Moreover, she alerted about the need of fostering the reuse of water by ensuring the elimination of emerging pollutants and microplastics, which may end up in seas and rivers or even enter the food chain.
The main topics treated during the 3rd YWP congress were, among others, water quality, new water technologies, innovative strategies in sampling and monitoring or industrial wastewater treatment.