The Eurecat technology centre is taking part in the European WATER-MINING project aimed at demonstrating smart and efficient water management systems to drive the transition to a circular economy through innovative solutions for recovering resources from industrial and urban wastewater and seawater.
Xavier Martínez-Lladó, Director of Eurecat’s Water, Air and Soil Unit, says drawing on the circular economy in water management “opens the door to reusing the water itself and regenerating the recovered resources” to “enhance their availability”. In this respect the project includes examples for the global implementation of the European Union’s Water Framework Directive.
“Besides the technical aspects, the project will bring together efforts to evaluate the circularity of the proposed solutions by analysing their sustainability through the development of a system of environmental indicators,” commented Frederic Clarens, Director of Eurecat’s Waste, Energy and Environmental Impact Unit. “That’s because validating and conveying the environmental gain is a prerequisite to smooth the transition to a circular economy.”
The WATER-MINING project is led by Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) and has 38 partners in 12 countries. The project has €17 million in funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research programme.
