Advancing urban water quality through digital monitoring and management.
QleanUp aims to develop an advanced water quality platform to improve resilience, robustness, and adaptability of urban water systems.
The project’s ambition is to deliver an integrated, risk-based decision support platform for authorities and utilities to improve water quality.This platform seeks to provide decision-makers with real-time sensor data, digital tools, and water monitoring and management strategies to effectively plan, implement, and manage protection measures.
By developing integrated monitoring and decision-support solutions, QleanUp addresses key barriers in urban water management. This approach improves the detection, understanding, and management of existing and emerging pollutants. The metodology combines new sensing solutions for nutrients, heavy metals, and pathogens with advanced analytical approaches for pollutants such as PFAS and microplastics. These are integrated with data-driven methods to estimate and predict parameters that are difficult to measure directly.
The combination of water quality monitoring, data analysis, and digital decision tools enables authorities and utilities to assess risks, plan targeted interventions, and manage water systems more effectively. These elements form unified platform that allows for continuous assessment and proactive decision-making, supporting a transition from reactive responses to more predictive and risk-based urban water quality management.
The digital solutions will be implemented and validated in five demonstration cases in Switzerland, Spain, Greece, the Netherlands, and the UK. These activities strive to demonstrate and promote the uptake of digital tools in urban water management and supported by co-creation processes and active stakeholder engagement.
The project brings together a consortium of 16 partners, coordinated by Delft University of Technology. Eurecat contributes through its Water, Air and Soil and Applied Artificial Intelligence units, which provide expertise in risk-based management plans, digital twins, and AI-driven forecasting for proactive water quality control.
General details
Project
QleanUp – A holistic approach towards high quality urban water through effective monitoring and urban water management planning.
Project reference
101181343
Programme and call
Project funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme under the HORIZON-CL6-2024-ZEROPOLLUTION-02.
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