Managed use of treated urban wastewater for the quality of the Adriatic Sea
AdSWiM project is built around the Urban WW and depuration plants and it aims of assessing whether the treated UWW from DP, in EU limits of composition, can be used as controlled points of nutrients supply, in particular phosphorus, with eliminated risks for both the hygienic quality of the bathing water and the ecosystem stability. This goal is obtained through several well defined activities either at DP level or in marine environment. The initial survey of the health state of the Adriatic Sea is organized to transfer and balance the knowledge cross-border among PP. The project investigates new treatments, new analytical devices and new chemical and microbiological parameters to maintain and improve the environmental quality conditions of sea and costal area and of the BW quality through the control of the WW.The impact and transferability of project results, also to stakeholders outside the Programme area, are obtained through the preparation of cross-border agreed guidelines to manage WW and DP and drawing up legislative proposal for an appropriate review of the effects on the environment of the legislation itself, in relation to the territorial specificities, to preserve the habitat/status ecological status and to contribute to maintain high the quality level of bathing water._x000D_
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Information added on 2020-05-18, regarding the mitigation of the effects of COVID-19 (the coronavirus pandemic that started in 2019) (English language only): The analisys of the water could be used to monitor the presence of Covid in the waste water