Towards increasing the sustainable treatment and reuse of wastewater in the Mediterranean region (AQUACYCLE)

The main objective of the AQUACYCLE project is to change the current paradigm of wastewater reuse in the MENA region through 3 municipal action plans. Eco-innovative technologies (anaerobic digestion, artificial wetland, solar treatment) have low operation and maintenance cost, as they use less chemicals, run on renewable energy, biogas and fertilizer are produced, and the artificial wetland will prosper as an ecological tourist attraction, in addition to being climate change mitigation technology. The environmental analysis group has been in charge of monitoring the contaminants of emerging concern present in the wastewater throughout the entire proposed treatment train, as well as inside the wetlands.