A total of 74 people attended the meeting, either online or presential. The day was divided in 2 sessions, one dedicated to bathing waters management and the other to the management of urban sewage systems. The first session counted on presentations, besides the ones about the project, of DG ENV explaining the current policies at European level related to bathing waters, and the World Health Organization giving a global overview.

The second session had as key speaker the Spanish Ministry of Environment explaining the upcoming new Reglamento del Dominio Público Hidráulico. At the end, a round table was held with representatives from the academics (Universitat Rovira i Virgili), Barcelona City Council, Catalan Water Agency, AEOPAS and Aqua Publica Europea.

• explore the benefits of digital innovations such as online sensors, machine learning, process-based models and mobile apps for managing microbial safety of bathing water sites;
• promote an open-source data-driven early-warning system, which is currently developed within digital-water.city and iBathwater projects; and
• draw concrete policy recommendations for the ongoing revision of the Bathing Water Directive (BWD).

1st February, 2021

Barcelona

On 1st February 2022, we held the sixth review meeting of the project with the participation of the monitor Mariona Salvatella from NEEMO. Differently from the last previous meeting, this time some participants were able to meet in person in Eurecat’s headquarters in Barcelona. The meeting allowed us to evaluate the progress and future prospects of the project. In the following day we visited BCASA facilities, where we could see the control center and how the digital tools developed in the project are being implemented.

29th July, 2020

Barcelona

The iBATHWATER project in Barcelona plans to perform analytical campaigns in the laboratory in order to validate the results of continuous measurement equipment, parameterize the marine pollution dispersal model during torrential rains, as well as to expand existing knowledge on the impact of short-term pollution events due to overflow of combined sewer systems during rainy weather.
The analyses are carried out on bathing water on the beaches of the city, on wastewater and on overflow points of the sewer network. The parameters analysed in the laboratory include, among others, microbiological indicators, viruses, nutrients, organic matter, metals, etc.
A first sampling campaign was carried out in dry weather, during the month of July 2020, where it can be advanced that the usual concentrations were found for most of the analysed parameters and no presence of SARS-CoV-2 was detected at any of the sampled points.

The 21st and 22nd of October Berlin held the 2nd revision meeting of the iBATHWATER project. This meeting consisted on a meeting the 21st to evaluate the progress and future prospects of the project, and on a visit to the demo-sites of Berlin during the 22nd, and to the pilot of FlussBad Berlin.