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UPWATER

Understanding groundwater Pollution to protect and enhance WATERquality

UPWATER will provide tools and strategies to implement safe and contaminant-free recharge water into aquifers. The involvement of stakeholders, water agencies, and policymakers using co-creation spaces that will involve citizenship participation will trigger social acceptance and appraisal of the solutions provided in this project.

The project will also increase public awareness of the advantages of engineered natural treatment systems to enhance water quality while providing evidence, models, and methods applicable through regulatory and governance decisions.

Read more about UPWATER and its goals and methodology.

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Pioneer Portrait: Jeff Camkin

Meet Jeff Camkin, a pioneer at the UPWATER project. With over 30 years of experience in water, fisheries, and agricultural policy, resource allocation, stakeholder engagement, research, education and advocacy, Jeff…
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Pioneer Portrait: Marta Rusiñol

Meet Marta Rusiñol, PhD in Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology at the University of Barcelona (UB). In the UPWATER project, Marta’s role is to test and validate viral passive samplers (VPS)…
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Exploring the UPWATER pilot plant along the Besòs river

Along the Besòs river in Barcelona, innovative nature-based solutions (NBS) to mitigate groundwater pollution are deployed and validated at pilot scale. Clara Laguna-Marín, PhD student at IDAEA-CSIC, hosted a recent…

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