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Guidelines for the adaptation of the project outcomes beyond the project boundaries
Get PDFFollowing the indications reported in Task 6.3.5 of the MADFORWATER project, MADFORWATER partners dedicated a relevant effort to the development of guidelines for the adaptation to other basins in Morocco, Egypt and Tunisia and to other MENA countries of the MADFORWATER tools, technologies and approaches. The general goal of these guidelines is to allow a generic stakeholder (such as a manager of a wastewater treatment plant, a wastewater company, an irrigation company, a farmer, the director of a basin authority, an officer of the Ministry of Irrigation) to perform the necessary activities in order to adapt the MADFORWATER technologies and water management tools to the specific context in which the considered technology or tool needs to be implemented. The adaptation guidelines developed in the framework of MADFORWATER and presented in this deliverable are relative to (i) the MADFORWATER approach for the analysis of water security, (ii) the project’s technologies for wastewater treatment and irrigation, and (iii) the two MADFORWATER decision support tools for wastewater management and for water & land management in agriculture. With regard to these two decision support tools, the adaptation guidelines are integrated by the description of the structure of two training courses that the MADFORWATER partners FHNW, IAMB and UPM can offer to potentially interested stakeholders.
The adaptation guidelines presented in this deliverable are integrated by a consistent amount of material – such as the user manuals and computer codes for the decision support tools, the detailed description of the MADFORWATER approach for the assessment of water security and the fact-sheets of the MADFORWATER technologies – freely accessible to any interested stakeholder through the MADFORWATER website or the repositories in which the MADFORWATER dataset have been deposited (mainly, AMS Acta and Zenodo). The links for the direct download of this material are systematically reported in this deliverable
MADFORWATER. WP5 Decision Support Tool for wastewater, water reuse and water and land management strategies in agriculture and WP6 Integration and assessment of water and land management strategies
No full textThe data set includes collected and generated data used to upgrade the integrated hydro-agro-economic model developed in MADFORWATER WP3 to use it as a decision support tool (DST) for defining basin-scale strategies for water & land management in agriculture that integrates water reuse / irrigation technologies and related economic instruments, in order to improve the irrigation efficiency and enhance the treated WW reuse in agriculture. The DST aims at identifying the best management strategies by simulating different scenarios and it has been applied to the three case study areas of MADFORWATER: the irrigated farming system in the Kafr-El- Sheikh Region in Egypt, the citrus farming system in Souss-Massa region in Morocco and the permanent irrigated farming in the Nabeul Governorate in Tunisia. For each simulated scenario, the proposed model allows to identify optimal farmers’ choices related to cropping patterns and agro-techniques. The model also allows to estimate the effects of such choices on water consumption, water distribution among crops, land use changes and farmer income. In the simulated scenarios, the tool considers the impacts of irrigation technologies, increased water availability from wastewater reuse, and regulatory and economic instruments on the socio-economic and environmental systems. Simulated data predict the behavior of the tested innovative irrigation technologies and economic instruments.
The data set contains also the elaboration of sustainable water & land management strategies in agriculture for the three case study areas of MADFORWATER. Each proposed strategy includes the identification and analysis of feasible and operational regulatory and economic instruments aimed at enhancing water reuse and the implementation of the efficient irrigation technologies developed in WP3. The strategies are delivered in the form of a report and are based upon qualitative data from policy and literature review, quantitative data from public data sources and collected by local teams, data collected during three fieldwork missions carried out in the region of Nabeul (Tunisia), qualitative information gathered in the MADFORWATER project’s stakeholder consultation workshops, and on results from the model-based Decision Support Tool (DST) developed in the project.
Moreover, this data set includes the results of questionnaires and answer sheets provided by expert and stakeholder interviewed during MADFORWATER project for establishing integrated water & land management strategies and for evaluating the suitability of identified measures to overcome country specific barriers for the implementation of the proposed strategies.
Potential users for this data include: (i) policy-makers or other decision-makers involved in water management and planning or agricultural policy development; (ii) researchers and companies active in the fields of treated wastewater reuse, water resources management, irrigation and agricultural and natural resource economics
MADFORWATER. WP2 Adaptation of wastewater treatment technologies for agricultural reuse. Task2.4 Industrial wastewater treatment. Textile wastewater
No full textThis data set includes data related to the treatment of textile wastewater (TWW), obtained in the framework of MADFORWATER project.
In particular, the data set includes experimental data produced in laboratory relative to the optimization of textile dye decolorization by bacterial consortium. Also, it includes data from experimental observations related to another technology for textile dyes removal: a two-stage (solids separation stage anaerobic/aerobic) moving bed biological bioreactor (MBBR).
Three types of potential users are envisaged for this dataset: (i) researchers active in the field of TWW treatment and valorization, that will use these data to design their experiments; (ii) textile industries; (iii) companies active in the fields of wastewater (WW) treatment and valorization
MADFORWATER. WP2 Adaptation of wastewater treatment technologies for agricultural reuse. Task2.2 Municipal wastewater and drainage canal water treatment
No full textThis data set includes data produced in the framework of MADFORWATER relatively to the treatment of municipal wastewater (WW) and drainage canal water. Specifically, it includes experimental observations gathered from the operation of Constructed wetlands (CWs) for the removal of heavy metals, emerging pollutants and nutrients. Moreover, it includes also experimental data relative to the secondary treatment of municipal wastewater (WW) using trickling filters filled with innovative high specific-surface carriers. Potential users for this dataset may be: (i) researchers active in the field of municipal WW treatment and valorization, and (ii) companies active in the fields of WW treatment and valorization
MADFORWATER. WP4 Field pilots for the adaptation and integration of technologies. Task4.3 Operation and optimization of the field pilots. Wastewater treatment performances and Irrigation/treated wastewater reuse performances. Drainage canal water pilot
No full textIn the Nile Delta region in Egypt, agriculture represents a crucial economic activity, and all the agricultural surface is irrigated with freshwater ultimately provided by the Nile river through a complex network of canals. Surface irrigation is widely applied, and the excess irrigation water, contaminated with fertilizers and pesticides, is collected by means of an intricate network of drainage water canals. However, several villages in Egypt are still suffering from low sanitation coverage and poor sanitary technology. Therefore, small drainage canals are often used to dispose untreated municipal wastewater (MWW) and industrial wastewater. The contaminated drainage canal water (DCW) is typically discharged in main drains, which eventually discharge in the Mediterranean sea. The treatment of drainage canal water potentially represents an important option for the Nile Delta, with the double purpose to produce water that can be reused for irrigation or for aquaculture and to reduce the pollutant load discharged in the Mediterranean. Thus, simple, low-tech, low-energy water treatment technologies are needed to treat drainage water up to irrigation-quality water.
This dataset comprises the concentrations of key parameters measured in the inlet, outlet and in several intermediate sections of the NWRC pilot plant of drainage canal water treatment located near Lake Manzala, Egypt.
The NWRC constructed wetland pilot project (250 m3/d) consists of a 500 m3 capacity sedimentation pond and 3 vegetated free water surface wetlands (20*10*1 m and 100 m3 capacity each)
The 3 free water surface cells were designed to examine 3 new wetland types as follows:
1. Cascade Hybrid Constructed Wetland (CHCW): Consists of a 0.4-m deep FWS wetland on top of 0.4-m gravel bed subsurface wetland GBSW. A group of metal baffles were fixed at the entrance, exit and middle and inner parts to force water to flow through FWS and GBSW cells to create the maximum treatment paths. Reeds were transplanted at 25 stem/m2 density on top of the gravel surface.
2. Sequent Hybrid Constructed Wetland (SHCW): Consists of 2 0.8-m deep FWS wetland at the entrance and exit of the wetland cells which confines 2 GBSW 0.8-m cells deep between the entrance and the exit. A 0.10-m gravel layer was put above the 0.8-m GBCW cells to create the subsurface aeration conditions. Each treatment part is 5-m long and 10-m wide. A group of metal baffles were fixed at the entrance, exit and middle and inner parts to force water to flow through FWS and GBSW cells to create the maximum treatment paths. Reeds were transplanted at 25 stem/m2 density on top of FWS cells beds and the GBCW surface.
3. Floating beds Constructed Wetland (FBCW, control): A 20*10*0.8 m floating treatment wetland cell (FTW) will be used as a control; Baffles were installed as in the other 2 hybrid wetland cells in order to mimic water flow paths. Reeds plants were planted on recycled floating foam mats 1.0*0.5*0.05 m each. The rooted plants were grown in a shallower water depth for 2 months to enlarge the root length.
Prof. Ahmed Rashed of the National Water Research Council of Egypt is the idea owner, planner, designer and operator of the hybrid wetland pilot plant object of this dataset. The construction of the pilot plant was financed by the National Water Research Council of Egypt, whereas the operation of the pilot plant and the scientific elaboration of the monitoring data were conducted by the National Water Research Council of Egypt in cooperation with the partners of the MADFORWATER project
CHANCES. Practices, Spaces and Buildings in Cities' Tranformation
Get PDFCHANCES has been an international conference that was aimed to explore, from a multidisciplinary perspective, the fragile but continuous urban transformation through the effective contribution of culture, nature and technology.
The aim of this conference was to provide a deeper understanding of urban transformations’ research and practices, focusing on the use, re-use, design, renovation and innovative governance and management of public spaces, urban commons and buildings.
We believe that these thoughts will largely contribute to shape and increase sustainable design, construction and planning in constant cities’ transformation.
Contributions could build on reflections and studies concerning current or historical approaches that are changing or drastically changed the cities we lived in
Vino nuovo in otri vecchi? Brevi riflessioni sugli “effetti” di un reality show nel diritto matrimoniale.
Get PDF[New Wine into Old Bottles? Brief Reflections on the "Effects" of a Reality Show in Matrimonial Law] This work is inspired by a judicial case that was decided by Tribunale di Pavia, involving the validity of a marriage celebrated during a famous reality show. The work begins examining the difference of opinion between the Court (that deemed the marriage valid) and some authors (that considered it invalid, because celebrated ludendi causa) to analyze the problem philosophically, applying categories like reality, fiction, simulation, representation, etc. The paper ends with a proposal to avoid the simple application of old categories to new facts and suggests opening a debate about new norms to manage new phenomena
MWE_combinet_release_1.0
No full textThe resource contains a manually validated dataset of 1,682 Italian multiword expressions (MWE), building on candidates automatically extracted from corpora of contemporary written Italian. The resource is fully described in Masini et al. (2020)
Dall'Assistenza Domiciliare all'Integrazione dei segmenti di cura. La rivoluzione copernicana del Percorso Diagnostico Terapeutico Assistenziale del paziente e dell'unico sistema informativo
Get PDFGli interventi dei servizi sanitari formalizzati in Percorsi Diagnostico Terapeutico Assistenziali sono segmentati secondo le diverse modalità organizzative (cure primarie, ospedaliere, lungodegenza, intermedie, domiciliari, strutture socio-assistenziali) in cui sono erogati. Per una adeguata valutazione dell’efficacia interventi, sistemi informativi e relativi indicatori devono essere invece riferirsi non ai segmenti ma al paziente visto nel suo complessivo percorso di cura
CONSOLE Project - Deliverable 1.2 - "Identification of potential improved solutions"
Get PDFThis deliverable describes the activies and the results developed in the task 1.2 “Stakeholder co-construction of potential improved solutions”. The objective is to identify the most promising solutions able to improve the design of contracts for agri-environmental-climate public goods (AECPGs) in different case studies and in EU as a whole.
The activities carried out involved a surbey among partners, including selectd stakeholders, and a workshop with a broad participation of stakeholders.
Several cases were identified that attracted a wide attention by partners from many countries. Three main AECPGs (carbon sequestration, biodiversity, water quality) were mostly confirmed as of high or very high importance in most cases.
The furher discussion allowed to identify implications for the upcoming WPs. A general message is the high interest for result-based mechanisms, but also the importance of considering hybrid solutions