This presentation is from the EPA's FP7 Environment National Information Day 2010. For further information, see http://www.fp7ireland.com/

1. A common vision
for water innovation
Ruth Ingles
6th October 2010

2. • Short Presentation of WssTP
• Industry Pilot Programme
• Our updated SRA
• Setting up and launch of ACQUEAU
• What’s next?

3. Short presentation of WssTP
A common vision for European water
innovation

4. Mission and role of WssTP as ETP
• Promote research and technology in the water sector
• Shape the future priorities for research and innovation
• Deliver a common vision for water innovation
• Promote water in the political agenda
• Address grand societal challenges of today and tomorrow

5. Key facts on WssTP
• Growing organisation: From 17 to 61 members from 2008 to 2010,
210 contributing organization, a network of more than 750 people
• 3 colleges: A: Industry, B: Research and academics, C: Water Utilities
• Strategic recommendations and working groups: 3 key documents (SRA,
Vision document, Implementation document), 11 reports sent to DG
Research since 2008
• Events in Europe: 4 stakeholder events with more than 320 participants
since 2007, 21 official presentations in 2009, many workshops organised by
pilots programs

6. Map of Members

7. Members per country

8. WssTP organisation
Implementation Cases Consortium
PP 1 PP 2 PP 3 PP 4 PP 5 PP 6
Coastal Zones Urban Areas Agriculture Industry Degraded Zones Hydro Climatic
TF Climate Change
TF MAR
TF Monitoring & Sensor
TF Water & Energy
TF Membrane Technologies
ETPs Pilot Coordination Committee Financial Engineering
Group
National Platform Liaison
Board
Office
MSMG
General Assembly

9. Adress research and innovation based on the water
cycle
Extreme events Industry
Agriculture Degraded zones
Urban Areas Coastal Zones

11. Concrete example:
The Industry pilot

12. Industry Pilot
Industry

13. Key figures
• The industrial sector is of great economic importance, where water related
costs can reach up to 25% of the total production cost
• In the EU, 44 % of total water abstracted is used for energy production
(primarily serving as cooling water)
• Today, challenges for the use of water in industry
• Energy consumption and Cooling/Heating
• Closing the water cycle
• Waste water treatment

14. General Research issues
• Water management (demand, resources and waste treatment, preserving
high quality, policies)
• Water use (quantity, lowest price, own sources and own treatment, water
fit for use water recycle, reduction of water use) = Aquafit4use
• Waste water (reducing waste, removing/recovering of components and
heat such as salts, metals, impurities and microbiology)
• The integration of the three levels.
Cooperation with other ETPs:
SusChem (Sustainable Chemistry), ETP- SMR (Sustainable mineral resources)
and ESTEP (Steel).

15. Success story: AQUAFIT4USE
• The AquaFit4use project aims at a more sustainable use of water in the
main water consuming industries. Through development and
implementation of new, reliable and cost-effective technologies, tools and
methods, a far-going closure of the water cycle in these industries is
foreseen. Consequently, the intake of fresh water and the disposal of
wastewater will be reduced significantly as will the burden imposed by this
on the environment.
• Based on recommendations provided in our first SRA in 2006 = Call in 2007
= submission by WssTP members
• Funded and started in June 2008 = 14,8 m€ EU funds: 9,7m €

16. Today: Working group- 4 themes
1. Water and energy in industry
2. Brines
3. Complex Waste water treatment
4. Reuse

17. Water and Energy in industry
• Heat recovery
• Energy production from waste and water
• Energy savings by water recovery, treatment at process conditions
• Energy efficient process water treatment systems
• Cooling towers integration with water treatment systems for industry
• Water issues on large scale energy
• Energy efficient water based processes
• Report to be ready by end of 2010

18. Brines and Complex wastewater treatment
• Brines: workshop in July 2010, report by end of 2010
• Complex wastewater treatment: workshop last week, in progress

19. Updated SRA

20. First SRA
• Published in October 2006, 68 pages
• Missing topics (Climate Change, MDGs, etc.)
• Goals of review:
• Request from the European Commission
• Update / structure the content
• Improve design for better communication (more attractive document)

21. Similarities and differences from 1st SRA
The fundamentals were kept from 1st SRA
• Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM)
• Water Framework Directive
• Structure by Pilot Programmes (scope matches the focus of the PPs)
• The ‘Vision’ was kept from the vision document (Oct. 2005)
Novelties
• Introduction of issues ‘Climate Change’ and ‘MDG’
• Inclusion of key ‘Facts & Figures’ (Europe and Global)
• 6x ‘Focus on cross-cutting issues’
• Managed Aquifer Recharge
• Sensors and Monitoring
• Water Reuse
• Water and Energy
• Ecohydrology
• Adaptation to Climate Change

22. Outcomes
• Condensed and attractive document
• 38 pages + 10 pages of Annexes
• Executive summary of 4 pages
• Content representative of the overall European water sector
• The SRA 2010 will serve for the next years as reference
document for the activities of WssTP and communication
• Implementation in projects and demonstration cases
• New update: in few years as required …

23. Main conclusion
Need to promote vision for research and innovation
• Key words
• MORE COORDINATION, INNOVATION AND INTEGRATION
• Importance of innovation to develop new market opportunities and
technologies in the field of water management
• Support coordination activities between all the stakeholders from the
water community
• Promote cross cutting research topics to address grand challenges as they
need integrated approaches and solutions

25. Link with other initiatives and funding
• Work together with:
• JPI on water, ERANET initiatives, CIS-SPI
• Other ETPs
• Funding
• FP7
• LIFE+
• COST, CIP, INTEREG

26. Setting up of ACQUEAU
Why ?
• Answer to fund innovation

27. Situation in Europe
• More investments are needed
• Today "Green investments" represent:
• EU: 25 $ billion
• US: 118 $ billion (~ 5x EU !!!)
• China: 218 $ billion (~ 9x EU !!!)*
• Need for stronger push in eco-innovation

28. Water, be ready for innovation
• Many possibilities for innovation and green growth in the water sector
• Huge market: 250 to 350 Billion € turnover /year
(drinking and waste water)
• Considerable assets: > 3.5 Million Km water distribution pipes
> 2.5 Million Km waste water sewers
• Large social impact: > 600,000 direct jobs in Europe
Acting as secretary of ACQUEAU, EUREKA Cluster for water

29. Facts: challenges for water efficiency
• Leakages vary between 5% to 50% in urban areas
• Infrastructures and asset management:
• 3.5 Mkm of drinking water networks
• 2.2 Mkm of wastewater networks
• 70,000 waste water treatment plants
• 33 Bn€ invested in 2008 in water infrastructures
• Market
• 250-350 Bn€/year for world market
• 50 Bn€/year turnover in Europe
• European water companies are world leaders

30. ACQUEAU
The EUREKA Cluster for Water
An initiative for growth
and innovation

31. What is a EUREKA Cluster?
• EUREKA Clusters are industry driven initiatives
• They found market driven projects: prototype / ready to the market
products or services
• ACQUEAU is a new EUREKA Cluster for water since April 2010

32. Technology road mapping
• 9 Water components
• 5 Major Programmes
• Establishment of priorities through 5 key
drivers
• Public Health
• Environment
• Cost Reduction
• Regulatory compliance
• Technologies Breakthrough

33. National Commitment
• Belgium
• Croatia
• Czech Republic
• Denmark
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Israel
• Monaco • Slovaquia
• Norway • Slovenia
• Poland • Spain
• Portugal • Sweden
• Switzerland
• Turkey
• The Netherlands
• The European Union
• United Kingdom

34. ACQUEAU - Organisation
Scientific and ACQUEAU Members Meet 1 / year
Technical National
Committee Representatives
Board Meet 3 / year
(HLR-NPC)
Executive Committee Meet 1 / month
Pool National
of experts ACQUEAU Office Projects
1 Director / 0,5 to 3 project officers Officers
Blue Book Projects
Calls Proposal Analysis Annual Event
update Follow-up

35. PROJECT OUTLINES
• 24 proposals - 10 on Call 1 (Membranes Technologies)
- 14 on Call 2 (Real Time System Management)
• Total Value: ~70 M€
• Projects Value: from 1M€ to 8.9 M€
• Mean Value and Duration: ~3 M€ - 3.2 years
• 19 countries involved
• Large representation of SMEs
→ 17 projects will go forward to Full Proposal stage,
16 countries ~52
~52 M€

36. Future steps

37. Link with other initiatives
• JPI: seek for complementaries – Very positive about this initiative to boost
the coordination of Member States within Europe
• European Commission: DG Climate Action, DG Energy…
• Participate to the Innovation Policy led by DG Research

38. For our members
• Networking tools
• Focus on recruitment and marketing
• Continue to provide recommendations towards FP8
• Boost innovation and applied research through ACQUEAU

39. Be ready for innovation, yes we can (innovate!)
Thank you for your attention!