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Acronym: ENORASIS/282949 Name: Dr. Machi Simeonidou | Email: msimeonidou@draxis.gr | Institution: DRAXIS ENVIRONMENTAL S.A., Greece In light of the real need to practically improve the environmental performance of irrigation systems and to prevent the misuse of water, ENORASIS project developed an intelligent irrigation Decision Support System (ENORASIS Service Platform and Components), which enables sustainable irrigation management for farmers and water management organizations. ENORASIS is a server-based system that gathers data from satellite observations and field equipment (wireless sensor networks), that uses the next-generation weather prediction model Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF) to provide high spatial accuracy estimations for precipitation. It combines all this information with specific crop characteristics (using FAO56 model) to produce daily optimal irrigation advice that is communicated to farmers via web or mobile. Accordingly, farmers may use this real-time information to schedule irrigation activities also in interaction with other cultivation tasks and monitor water consumption both in terms of quantity and cost. Water Management Authorities may use water consumption monitoring data to estimate short and long term pressures on water reservoirs, set water prices as drivers for sustainable irrigation and apply pricing schemes that incorporate the real costs of water (in accordance with the Water Framework Directive - WFD). The project has achieved the development of the ENORASIS platform and other components (such as the Meteo Analysis Tool, Wireless Sensor Network - WSN, Digital Signature Standard - DSS algorithm). In addition, interfaces with billing systems and the relative subsystems and functionalities were also developed. Web and mobile ENORASIS users’ interfaces and Geographic Information System (GIS) application of ENORASIS were prepared, with a friendly, easy-to-use layout targeted to end-users’ needs. The ENORASIS system has been tested for 2 cultivation periods in 5 pilot implementations covering 9 different crops, 4 different climatic conditions and 2 operational approaches. The performance of pilots was validated and assessed against specific Key Performance Indicators. Four policy workshops, three scientific ones and a final conference have been organised with around 500 participants in total, accomplishing proper dissemination of the project and its results and contributing to policy dialogue about sustainable irrigation management in Europe. Dissemination material: ENORASIS 1st Info Factsheet - Link ENORASIS 1st Newsletter - Link ENORASIS A1 Poster first presented in STEP-WISE and STREAM Final Conference - Link ENORASIS 2nd Info Factsheet - Link ENORASIS 3rd Info Factsheet - Link ENORASIS 4th Info Factsheet - Link ENORASIS 2nd Newsletter - Link ENORASIS 3rd Newsletter - Link ENORASIS 4th Newsletter - Link ENORASIS 5th Newsletter - Link Project Deliverables: D1.2 Agricultural Process Analysis Report – Link D2.1 Report on Irrigation Water Governance in the context of WFD and CAP - Link D2.2 ENORASIS Business Models - Link D2.3 ENORASIS Platform Use Case Scenarios and User Requirements - Link D5.2 ENORASIS User Manual - Link D5.3 ENORASIS Technical Documentation - Link D6.1 Pilot Implementation Guidelines - Link D6.2 Pilots' Interim Report - Link D6.3 Pilots' Final Report - Link D6.4 Pilots Assessment Report - Link D7.4 Report on ENORASIS Events (scientific/ policy workshops) - Link D7.5 Report on ENORASIS Events (final conference) - Link D7.14 Policy Recommendations for Decision Makers and Water Management Organisations (Policy brief) - Link
Project LIFE Concrete Action: Remote sensing for agricultural water demand
Project Duration: January 2012- December 2014
Project Status: Completed
Funding Program: FP7-ENVIRONMENT
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Descriptive Words: Remote sensing Agriculture
Project Website: http://www.enorasis.eu/
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Acronym: PROMOTE Scientific executive officer Prof. Dr. Georg Teutsch Phone ++49 341 235-1800 Fax ++ 49 341 235-1388 Prof. Dr. Heike Graßmann Phone ++49 341 235-1801 Fax ++ 49 341 235-1388 Email. heike.peters@ufz.de Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ Permoserstraße 15 | 04318 Leipzig, Germany Phone +49 341 235-1269 Email: info@ufz.de Drinking water quality is potentially threatened by the release of chemicals that we are producing and using. If these chemicals are water soluble and poorly degradable or if poorly degradable and polar transformation products are formed from them, then these chemicals may specifically be of concern. PROMOTE focuses on persistent, mobile organic contaminants (PMOC). PMOC are highly polar compounds and as such likely to occur in the water cycle and in raw waters used for drinking water production. At the same time their physicochemical properties make them very challenging to analyze. Consequently, analytical methods are insufficiently developed and little is known upon their occurrence in environmental and drinking waters. PROMOTE follows two strategies to identify and monitor PMOC: (a) developing and applying analytical methods for screening of water samples for PMOC and (b) selection and prioritization of candidate substances based on REACH data and developing analytical methods for their quantitative analysis. The developed analytical methods will be applied to representative samples from five European river basins, to WWTP effluents, to groundwater samples and to raw waters used for drinking water production. For PMOC occurring in raw waters or likely to occur in such waters PROMOTE will study the potential of different drinking water treatment strategies to remove PMOC. PMOC will be prioritized in terms of their emission sources and removal options and adequate mitigation methods at reasonable effort will be proposed. This will include improved treatment processes for compounds emitted only locally, changes in the use profile and regulation within the REACH legislation. Widely distributed PMOC of environmental or health concern may also be candidates for the watch list of the WFD. Publications Screening for polar chemicals in water by trifunctional mixed-mode liquid chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry (2017) - http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.6b05135 Ranking REACH registered neutral, ionizable and ionic organic chemicals based on their aquatic persistency and mobility (2017) - http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2017/em/c7em00158d#!divAbstract Halogenated methanesulfonic acids: A new class of organic micropollutants in the water cycle (2016) - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0043135416304146 Mind the gap: Persistent and mobile organic compounds – water contaminants that slip through (2016) - http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.est.6b03338 Book Chapter High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry Identification of Micropollutants Transformation Products Produced During Water Disinfection With Chlorine and Related Chemicals (2016) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166526X16300071 Software tools PREGA is a freeware tool for off-line optimization of HPLC separation, which is able to simplify method development in several chromatographic modes, including Reversed-Phase or Mixed-Mode HPLC - http://www.usc.es/gcqprega/index_archivos/prega.htm Several posters Results and Publications section on http://www.promote-water.eu/
Project LIFE Concrete Action: Monitoring for emerging pollutants of potential concern
Project Duration: 2015 - 2017
Project Status: Completed
Funding Program: 2013 Water JPI Pilot Call
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Descriptive Words: Emerging contaminants trace pollutants water resource REACH drinking water
Project Website: http://www.promote-water.eu/
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