Water to the power of 3 - Quality, Security and Management

The W3-Hydro project ("Water Quality Event Detection for Urban Water Security and Urban Water Management Based on Hydrotoxicological Investigations") is a BMBF-funded collaboration between RWTH Aachen University and the Technion in Haifa, Israel, within the Joint German-Israeli Water Technology Research Program. The project is coordinated by the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management (IWW) under the lead of Prof. Holger Schüttrumpf.

We aim at an early event detection, identification and management of unforeseen, negative and sudden events for drinking water supply using hydrological in combination with ecotoxicological experimental investigations, together with water management and modelling.

Our part is (a) to develop an early warning system that automatically triggers sampling and further testing based on biotest systems, and (b) to investigate contaminant behaviour in the water-sediment-system for better understanding of substance transport and distribution.

We already built a custom-made low-cost pipetting robot for the automatic sampling, and started with the development of a flow-through device for behaviour monitoring of zebrafish larvae.

Futher info on the project can be found at http://w3hydro.org/

And again, I could enjoy designing a logo.