On 29th September 2022, the iBATHWATER consortium organized a hybrid event to explain the main outcomes of the project. The intention of the event was to reach an audience at national level, and for this reason the language was Spanish.

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.

On 12th May 2022, Aqua Publica Europea and Barcelona Cicle de l’Aigua, the public operator from Barcelona (Spain) organized the WATER ERASMUS Technical Workshop on Bathing Waters, to discuss the role of public water operators in ensuring clean coastal and inland waters for bathers.

In the broader context of ongoing review of the Bathing Water Directive by the European Commission, the WATER ERASMUS Technical Meeting started by reviewing the challenges and perspectives for safe bathing waters with institutional experts and moved on to a technical exchange among water operators who shared their technical and governance approaches to contribute to clean seas and rivers, in particular considering the impact of combined sewer overflows.

On 5th April 2022, KWB organized, jointly with Digital Water City and Water Europe, a webinar with more than 200 attendees with the following purposes:

• 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).

18th October, 2021

World Trade Centre, Barcelona

On February 24, the Catalan Water Partnership Water Innovation Day was held at the World Trade Center in Barcelona, dedicated this year to Digital and Circular Solutions. With more than 120 people registered, ADASA and Eurecat participated in this event.
After the welcome by the Climate Action Secretary, Ms. Anna Barnadas i López, and Jordi Cros, R&D projects were presented, including iBathWater.
There was also time for networking during the coffee break, and for the conference on “How to manage Innovation in Companies”. The event ended with the award for the best Innovation project.