SAFE Project

SAFE will promote positive and practical valorization of reclaimed urban wastewater as a valuable alternative source for agricultural purposes. SAFE will provide a multi-beneficial approach with novel, unconventional and environmental decentralized wastewater solution that will be respectful of environment and biodiversity of the agro-system. SAFE will optimize the proposed water reuse strategies, ensuring their safety, their sustainability, adaptation to water scarcity, local conditions, and farms necessities, boosting the local economy. Main specific objectives are:

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● Development, test and validation of novel low cost and low energy urban decentralized wastewater treatments aimed at enhanced renewable water supply

● Evaluation of wastewater treatments impact in plants/crops performance using modern -omics tools

● Evaluation of local biodiversity and co-benefits

● Promotion of environment respectful practices like pest management by biofertilizers such as Trichoderma sp

● Safety evaluation related to the proposed approaches, including monitoring of emerging pollutants, in water, soil and produced crops

● Development of general management models able to simulate local and decentralized agro-ecological practices in several scenarios

● Optimization of implemented approach in terms of techno-economic analysis, environmental impact and local feasibility

● Local promotion of the proposed solutions both in terms of farmers’ acceptability and valorization of their economic value.

 

​ELGO-Dimitra (through SASRER Lab and Genomics Lab) is leading WP3 - Plant Environmental adaptation and abiotic stress resilience.