Water management solutions for reducing microbial environment impact in coastal areas
WATERCARE aims to improve the quality of the microbial and environment and resource efficiency in bathing and coastal waters reducing the microbial contamination by using innovative tools in waste management and treatment WATERCARE will: develop an innovative Water Quality Integrated System (WQls) composed by a real-time hydro-meteorological monitoring network; realize an ad-hoc infrastructure for bathing waters management in a pilot site through a forecast operational model; realize feasibility studies in other 4 target sites to improve planning and management of environmental problems of the marine system; develop a real-time alert system able to preventively identify the potential ecological risk from focal contamination of bathing waters and to support governance decision in processes in bathing water management._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): There is a link between Covid-19 and not treated urban waste waters as it is demonstrated that this kind of waters allow to spread virus contamination transmission via fecal residues, so the project could be helpful in dealing with the pandemic reducing the risk of Covid-19 contamination during meteorological events and tourist season.