Climate-resilient management for safe disinfected and non-disinfected water supply systems 

On 1 November 2022, the Horizon Europe project SafeCREW has been started. The aim is to ensure a safe, resilient drinking water supply even under conditions of climate change. The focus is on the question to which extent drinking water supply can be safely provided without disinfection in the future, or how the formation of undesirable disinfection by-products can be avoided if an increased load of natural organic matter and increasing temperatures are expected. Eleven partners from five countries will spend the next 3.5 years filling research gaps on disinfection byproducts and developing guidelines for monitoring and managing drinking water supply systems from source to tap. SafeCREW is coordinated by the DVGW Research Centre TUHH and funded by the European Union.