TECHNEAU: Safe Drinking Water from Source to Tap State of the art & Perspectives

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For more detailed information please turn to the TECHNEAU-website (www.techneau.org). There you will soon find the official proceedings, as published by IWA, individual presentations and the TECHNEAU film, promoting results from the TECHNEAU case studies. Under "Publications" this website also lists the circa 100 TECHNEAU deliverables obtained so far, most of these are available as freely downloadable research reports and state-of-the-art overviews. Our gratitude goes out to the dedicated people at RWTH Aachen University for organising a pleasant and fruitful conference, to the International Water Association IWA for publishing the accompanying book with the papers that were presented and to the conference sponsors Limburg Water Company WML, ENWOR and NORIT. Theo van den Hoven, TECHNEAU coordinator Wednesday June 17 Opening session Ria Doedel, CEO of the Dutch Limburg Water Company WML and host of the TECHNEAU conference, was very clear in her request to the scientists and experts gathered in Maastricht: "We-WML and other water companies-need to invest in innovation to meet the challenges of the future, especially in sustainability. So I am asking you: inspire us to use knowledge to improve our sustainability." The over 130 participants in TECHNEAU's "final conference" took her words to heart and shared their knowledge freely, scientists and end-users alike. With still 18 months to go-the EU Integrated Project TECHNEAU ends in 2011-it might seem early for a "final" conference, but as TECHNEAU coordinator Theo van den Hoven (KWR) remarked: "there are already a lot of results to share. Holding this general meeting now, promotes dissemination and use of TECHNEAU results".

The feasibility of automated online flow cytometry for in-situ monitoring of microbial dynamics in aquatic ecosystems

“…Bacterial parameters tend to respond to such variations and events. To establish the links between the microbial dynamics and their causes and implications, accurate and high-throughput measurements of microbial parameters are necessary (Van Den Hoven et al, 2009 ). Specifically, in the field of drinking water, an improved understanding of microbial dynamics can support process optimization, microbial risk assessment, and risk management (e.g., Smeets et al, 2010 , World Health Organization, 2011 ).…”

Disease diagnostic strategies and emerging analytical metabolomics techniques for waterborne microbial pathogens in vegetable crops—A critical review

“…for ultrasensitive bio-analysis and diagnostics for pathogenic microbes in vegetable crops (Cloetea et al, 2009;Theron et al, 2010).…”

Infrastructure Asset Management: Historic and Future Perspective for Tools, Risk Assessment, and Digitalization for Competence Building

“…It is in the period of the second generation of IAM that a comprehensive preventive risk management approach for ensuring drinking-water quality is made available to water operators in the form of guidelines: the Water Safety Plan [22]. The IAM risk-based DSS developed in this period are also inspired by the need to support the implementation of the Water Safety Plan, as the EU project TECHNEAU [23,24]. Afterwards, the authors in [25] present the challenges faced by the water utilities to provide safe, secure, and reliable service to meet also the Water Framework Directives 2000/60/EC, in addition to the water safety plan.…”