Norway grants
Reduction of surface water pharmaceutical substances pollution in biologically treated wastewaters
Project manager: PRO-AQUA CZ, s.r.o.
Project partner: Technical University of Liberec
Program area: Call "Trondheim", Call-3B of the "Environment, Ecosystems and Climate Change" program financed from EEA / Norway funds 2014-2021, administered by the State Environmental Fund of the Czech Republic
The project is focused on the elimination of anthropogenic pollution by pharmaceutical substances (especially resistant antibiotics) from wastewater, which leads to the accumulation of unnaturally occurring substances in the environment.
At present, wastewater treatment plants do not have technologies that would be able to eliminate these pollutants from wastewater, and are therefore further entrained in the environment (especially in surface water). It is therefore in the general interest to reduce the input of this pollution, thereby protecting itself and the environment.
Due to the evident dominance of the input of pharmaceutical substances into the environment from surface sources (wastewater from the population), the project intends to eliminate or reduce the input of these substances from the effluents of biological wastewater treatment plants.
The project partners will realize field-tests of technologies that have been developed at both sites and promise very effective removal of the contaminants in question from the wastewater.
The project Reduction of surface water pharmaceutical substances pollution in biologically treated wastewaters was supported by a grant in the amount of CZK 8.935 million from the EEA / Norway 2014 - 2021 funds, the Environment, Ecosystems and Climate Change Program.
Contacts
Project manager: PRO-AQUA CZ, s.r.o.
Appointed contact person: Dr. Ing. Libor Novák (libor.novak@pro-aqua.cz)
Project partner: Technical University of Liberec - Institute for Nanomaterials, Advanced Technologies and Innovation
Appointed contact person: Ing. Tomáš Lederer Ph.D. (tomas.lederer@tul.cz)
Links
State Environmental Fund of the Czech Republic
The Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic
EEA and Norway Funds