We would like to share all the dissemination and communication activities done in REWATERGY.

Dissemination events

Shabila Perveen & Raffaella Pizzichetti have participated in the “Semana de la Ciencia y la Innovación” celebrated from 2^nd to 15^th of November 2020 in Madrid with two exciting presentations:

• MICROPLASTICS EVEN IN THE SOUP. WHAT WE SHOULD KNOW AND WHAT WE COULD DO by Raffaella Pizzichetti (November 5th from 10.00 to 11.30 h)

Visit the web page: http://rewatergy.eu/microplastics/

Visit the video: http://rewatergy.eu/microplastics/

• RESISTANCE TO ANTIBIOTICS. HOW MICROBES BECOME SUPERMICROBES IN OUR BODY by Shabila Perveen (November 4th from 10:00 to 11:30 h)

Visit the webpage: http://rewatergy.eu/antibioticresistance/home/ 

Visit the video: http://rewatergy.eu/antibioticresistance/home/ 

Salem Alkharabsheh took part in some activities to show the visitors basic water purification methods at the NI Science Festival event, celebrated in Belfast (UK), between 13-23 February 2020.

Raffaella Pizzichetti has participated in the XXI edition of the “Semana de la Ciencia y la Innovación” celebrated from the 1st to 14th of November 2021 in Madrid with an exciting ESCAPE ROOM called Save the population from water scarcity.

The challenge is still accessible to anyone who is interested in participating, challenging themselves and solving the riddles that will lead them to find the key to saving the world’s population from water scarcity. You can find the link to this Escape Room (in English and Spanish) by accessing the REWATERGY Student Blog at the end of the post “A universal right: have access to safe drinking water”.

Raffaella Pizzichetti also made dissemination of the REWATERGY project at the Environmental Research Institute (ERI) in Cork. She realized a presentation of the project to visiting Environmental Science students.

The challenge is still accessible to anyone who is interested in participating, challenging themselves and solving the riddles that will lead them to find the key to save the world’s population from water scarcity. You can find the link to this Escape Room (in English and Spanish) by accessing the REWATERGY Student Blog at the end of the post “A universal right: have access to safe drinking water”.

Raffaella Pizzichetti also made the dissemination of REWATERGY project at the Environmental Research Institute (ERI) in Cork. She made a presentation of the project to visiting Environmental Science students.

Prototype I is tested in WW urine

The installation of a full-scale urea adsorption prototype in the Lleida WWTP (owned by Aqualia) has already been achieved. The solution consists on a waterless urinal (to ensure maximum concentration of urea from urine) together with an activated carbon cartridge. The prototype is installed in the toilet of the main building of the plant, and it is used by people who work in the WWTP and also by a large number of visitors coming from universities, municipal authorities and water companies among others. Besides the high impact that such a “ready to use” solution has, the prototype contains a small sticker with the REWATERGY logo that enhance the dissemination of the project. Additionally, an explanatory poster has been designed and it is installed at the main entrance of the building and facilitates the dissemination of REWATERGY to visitors. The urea collected in the adsorption cartridge will be taken to the lab-scale prototype I and thermally desorbed and decomposed to ammonia, which will provide to Rubén Asiaín-Mira (ESR in charge of this study) with a real estimation of the amount of hydrogen that can be produced from this waste.

Other events

Adithya Pai Uppinakudru & Conor Redick attended the International Conference on UV LED Technologies & Applications (ICULTA 2021), organised jointly by the German consortium ‘Advanced UV for Life’ and the ‘International Ultraviolet Association (IUVA).

Adithya Pai has attended the Fifth South Asian Cities Summit 2020, celebrated in Goa (India) between 04-06 March 2020.

Salem Alkharabsheh took part in some activities to show the visitors basic water purification methods at the NI Science Festival event, celebrated in Belfast (UK), between 13-23 February 2020.

Adithya Pai has participated in the event ICUDAS 2020, International Conference on Ultra violet disinfection for Air and Surface, celebrated between 08-09 December 2020 (virtual conference).