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WaHch - Water & Health challenges in a changing environment

CTAC-OpenDay | Ponte de Lima 22.03.2017 | José Vieira

Water & Health challenges in a changing environment

José M. P. Vieira

Research Centre Area Water Resources & Environment



Research team

José Vieira (coordinator)

Júlio Ferreira Silva Manuela Lima Paulo Ramísio

José Luis Pinho Naim Haie António Duarte



Research Areas Fulfilling CTAC Research Strategic Programmes:

Urban systems in a changing environment

Risk management & health



Research areas (… mitigating the gap between science and policy-makers)

A.1 Water safety

A.2 Water security

A.3 Innovative urban water systems management

A.4 Sustainable technologies and smart materials for hydraulic

structures



A.1 - Water safety

Water, sanitation and health safety plans

New water quality challenges (emerging pollutants control, smart

monitoring and modelling integration)

Health risk and impacts of water supply and sanitation systems

Integrated vulnerability assessment of water supply systems

Water systems adaptation to climate changes and future water demands



A.2 - Water security

Innovative multifactor risk management methodologies

Decision support systems for flooding forecasting and control

Early warning systems at a river basin scale

Costal pollution mitigation and erosion control

Natural disasters preparedness: water and sanitation emergency plans

Physical security of water supply and sanitation utilities



A.3 - Innovative urban water systems management

Decision support systems in urban water cycle management

(including storm and grey waters)

Smart monitoring and modelling of urban water systems

Water management (savings, storage and reuse) linkage with the “cities

of tomorrow” planning

Water and energy efficiency

Rainwater harvesting at city scale.



A.4 - Sustainable technologies and smart materials for

hydraulics structures

Sustainable treatment technologies: advanced filtration and oxidation

Emerging and priority micro pollutants removal (pharmaceuticals , …)

Smart pipes (self monitoring, self repairing, agents release, …) (*)

Non-corrosive composite materials for sensitive hydraulic structures (*)

(*) Linked with a larger research program integrating all RAC of CTAC



Financing sources for the project

National sources:

FCT

Portuguese water companies

Norte 2020

International sources:

Horizon 2020

Interreg España-Portugal



Projects Applying the knowledge



Water Safety Plans

Time Frame: 2004 –

Goals

Water Safety Plans (WSP) place a greater emphasis on the

identification, assessment and management of risks

throughout the water supply system from catchment to

consumer. This project deals with methodological approach

to develop and implement risk assessment and risk

management in water supply systems. case studies have

been developed and implemented in Portugal and Brazil.

A Guide Book and training courses, given in Portugal,

Uruguay and Brazil, also have contribute for dissemination

of this methodology.

Partners

IRAR/ERSAR/AdN/CMBraga



| CERSA UM CENTRO DOIS CAPÍTULOS

Auditório B1 do CPII da Universidade do Minho, Braga | 29/01/2015 Prof. Pedro Mancuso

“ Há um tempo em que é preciso abandonar as roupas usadas, que já têm a forma do nosso corpo e esquecer os nossos caminhos que nos levam sempre aos mesmos lugares.

É o tempo da travessia: e, se não ousarmos fazê-la, teremos ficado, para sempre, à margem de nós mesmos.

” Fernando Pessoa



DSS for Alqueva water quality planning and management

Time Frame: 2004 – 2008

Goals

This project focuses on developing a decision support system to explore various planning and

management water quality scenarios in the Alqueva (Guadiana river) sub-basin. The decision support

system integrates several databases, geographic information systems, various models, computer

technology, and meaningful user-model interfaces. Training and technology transfer is an essential

project component..

Partners

EDIA




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FEWS-CEMIG - Delft-FEWS Flow Forecast System

Time Frame: 2013 – 2016

Goals

CEMIG is a Brazilian energy supplier operating about 55 hydro power plants with an installed capacity of

more than 6000 MW. The company currently executes a R&D project with the Brazilian institute

LACTEC. It aims at building up know-how / tools in the field of flow forecasting. This serves several

objectives such as the mitigation of flood damage in downstream river reaches of dam and the

optimization of hydropower benefits.

This project developed by TecMinho/University of Minho aim the set-up of SOBEK models for plant group

II and the support of LACTEC on the implementation and calibration of these models. The plant group

includes modelling of four different rivers reaches: Rio Grande river (Camargos, Itutinga and Funil dams);

Itabapoana river (Rosal dam); Jequitinhonha river (Irapé dam); and Doce river (Aimorés dam).

Partners

LACTEC, CEMIG, Deltares, UMinho












Era-Mira - Erosion Risk Assessment at Mira coast

Time Frame: 2008 – 2017

Goals

During the second half of the 20th century, coastal erosion become a main dominant process. Coastal

infrastructures can be endangered by this natural process that is being amplified by climate change.

This project aims to characterize the coastal evolution near an important aquiculture infrastructure

located at the central coast of Portugal (Mira). The work is mainly based on field acquisition data and

advanced tools for spatial analysis.

Partners

UMinho




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RTC-MOM – Real Time Control for hydraulic structures

considering a Multi-Objective Management framework

Time Frame: 2016 – 2018

Goals

Quality of aquatic environments and water resources are a growing concern for contemporary societies,

exacerbated by the effects of climate change and increasing pollution associated with anthropogenic

activities.

To overcome this problem, modeling tools for water quality assessment of surface water bodies can be

particularly useful to understand the pollutant degradation process in aquatic ecosystems and describe

their operation. In this context, the operational control can benefit from the high capacity of available

numerical techniques, contributing to a better performance of environmental infrastructure operators that

use surface waters has their final discharge environments. In this project innovative controllers based on

real time control techniques are developed to manage different waste waters discharges considering

different conflictual environmental and economical objectives.

Partners

UMinho





Singapore





Singapore



Flooding in urban streams

Time Frame: 2014 – 2018

Goals

Rapid urbanization contributes to increases in impervious area causing higher peak discharges and

volume of runoff. The studies were developed in different urban situations. A combination of field data,

watershed modeling and river flow modelling was applied in order to assess impacts of flooding for

various scenarios.

Partners

Uminho, APA, CMGuimarães



Flooding in urban streams (Coimbra 2016)



Flooding in urban streams (Guimarães 2014-2016)

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