Interreg ANCHOR project

⚓🌴 Open to an insightful summer read? Our 340 international subscribers just received the latest update on urban water systems in their mailbox. 📩 Learn all about the Communities of Practice (CoPs) that kicked off in recent months in Flanders and Germany, and discover the take-home messages from our first two lunch talks about drivers and societal benefits of source separation. 📝👉 Read the full newsletter here: https://lnkd.in/gXivsrJY We wish you refreshing holidays 🌞🏄🏻♀️ and hope to see you in September! 🖥 September 23 you can join our lunch talk about collecting and treating blackwater for resource recovery. 🚽 Register here for free: https://lnkd.in/g-znnuEG 📣 Want to stay up to speed about the ANCHOR project? Sign up to receive news updates (twice a year) and invitations to lunch talks (4 times a year): https://lnkd.in/eJbWq6Vn

💥 New lunch talk alert! Collecting and treating blackwater for resource recovery 🚽 🗓 Monday 23 September ⌚ 12:00 to 13:00 CET 💻 Online on Zoom In source separated sanitation, blackwater systems can be of great added value. How can we collect and treat blackwater to recover resources? What are catalysts and what are challenges for blackwater systems? ANCHOR team members will draw from their pilot site experiences and talk about: 🚻 Why should blackwater be collected separately from greywater? 🚻 How do we treat blackwater for resource recovery? 🚻 Where is the economy in source-separating wastewater systems?   We look forward to seeing you in September, and don't hesitate to share this invite in your networks. 📩   Let’s hoist the sails and take action for water wise city neighbourhoods! Register here and join the lunch talk for free: https://lnkd.in/epftUsYs 🤝 ANCHOR is an Interreg North Sea Programme project led by VITO-Vlakwa and carried out by project partners DuCoop, KWR Water Research Institute, Waternet, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, HAMBURG WASSER, City of Stockholm and NSVA - Nordvästra Skånes Vatten och Avlopp. ⚓ Team ANCHOR

Hoe ruim je struikelblokken uit de weg om aan de woonwijken van de toekomst te bouwen? 🏘 Dat is de hamvraag die de Community of Practice 'Stedelijke watergemeenschappen' aan boord neemt. ☔ Eén onderdeel van circulaire wijken is een collectief regenwatersysteem, zoals het innovatieve regenwaterproject ‘Slimme straat’ in Wiekevorst voorziet voor 33 woningen. 🗣 Geen betere plek voor Veerle van VITO-Vlakwa en Dries van DuCoop/Circular om hun eerste Community of Practice te hosten voor 30 geëngageerde deelnemers! 👏 Filip De Bonte en Philippe Segers van B-rain Connect netwerk, en Frederik Spiessens van Pidpa brachten een eerlijk verhaal over de collectieve regenwateropvang, -hergebruik en -infiltratie in een nieuwe woonwijk in Heist-op-den-Berg. 👷🏻♀️👀 Omdat de bovendekplaten er nog niet liggen, kregen deelnemers de bijzondere kans om het integrale systeem in de praktijk te bezichtigen. 🛒💧 Hemelwater wordt er gedeeld tussen de lokale Spar supermarkt en woningen. Het overschot kan dan weer maximaal infiltreren voor het lokale groen. ☘ Geen druppel gaat er verloren. Een collectieve pomp voert via een tweede circuit hemelwater naar de woningen. Nutsinfrastructuur zoals data en elektriciteit liggen bovenop het opvangsysteem en zijn zo eenvoudig toegankelijk via afneembare betonplaten voor latere aanpassingen en voor onderhoud. ✅ Geen breekwerk, en geen wirwar van kabels. Een aandachtspunt ❗ voor toekomstige projecten is werfopvolging. Ondanks een heel goede werfvoorbereiding, blijkt opvolging ter plaatse cruciaal. 💪 Na het bezoek, gingen we het gesprek aan in een workshop over collectieve regenwatersystemen. Want innovatieprojecten stoten vaak op dezelfde uitdagingen, die initiatieven vertragen of doen kelderen. 📉 🤼 ORGANISATIE - Hoe organiseer je het project? Wie neemt welke verantwoordelijkheid? Hoe betrek je stakeholders op de juiste manier? 💰 FINANCIERING - Hoe financier je het project? Wanneer is er een business case haalbaar? 👩🏻💻 TECHNOLOGIE – Tegen welke technologische drempels of onzekerheden lopen we aan? ⚖ WETGEVING - Hoe verzoen je innovatieve projecten met de huidige wetgeving? Het CoP-netwerk wil die terugkerende uitdagingen het hoofd bieden door vanuit praktijkcases actief na te denken en kennis te delen. Zo kunnen we stappen vooruitzetten om waterprojecten gemakkelijker uit te rollen. 🚀 Zin om deel te nemen aan een volgende Community of Practice? Meld je hier aan om de uitnodigingen te ontvangen 👉 https://lnkd.in/eJbWq6Vn In Vlaanderen organiseren we er 2 per jaar.

Stay tuned to explore the decentral waste water systems in our 5 demo sites in Belgium, Germany, Sweden and The Netherlands 🌍 through virtual 360° tours! 📽 👀 Under the supervision of Mario Wolf of b.is at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.

Oceanhamnen 🚢 is a brownfield development of an old harbour into a living and business area in the city centre of Helsingborg. Curious to learn first hand about the reuse of grey water 🛀🏻, black water 🚽 and food waste 🍌in this district in Sweden? Meet us at the end of this month in Brussels for an insightful face to face afternoon about boosting EU Water Resilience! 🚀 📅 May 30 from 1 PM to 6:30 PM 📌 Brussels, @House of the Dutch Provinces ANCHOR project partner Hamse Kjerstadius with NSVA - Nordvästra Skånes Vatten och Avlopp (Helsingborg, Sweden) will be presenting RecoLab and the Oceanhamnen case within the ANCHOR project. Sign up here 👉 https://lnkd.in/e9PWP8AB Many thanks to Water4All - Partnership and WaterCampus for having us at your official European Green Week Partner Event on May 30 in Brussels. The event will share among others how to transform city districts into factories producing ⚡ energy, 🚜 nutrients and 🌊 fresh water from their waste water. Want to stay up to speed about the whereabouts of the ANCHOR project? 🚀 Sign up here 👇 to receive news updates (2/year) and invitations to lunch talks (4/year). https://lnkd.in/eJbWq6Vn 🤝⚓ ANCHOR is an Interreg North Sea Programme project led by VITO-Vlakwa and carried out by project partners DuCoop, KWR Water Research Institute, Waternet, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, HAMBURG WASSER, Stockholms stad and NSVA - Nordvästra Skånes Vatten och Avlopp.

"Source-separating technologies could be a major puzzle part 🧩 for our future sustainable water treatment at Stockholm Vatten och Avfall". Loud and clear from Dan Fujii, strategic research lead at Stockholm water utility. "Equipping 20% of all newly built housing 🏘 with a system separating grey from black water in upcoming decades could relieve much pressure from the existing wastewater treatment system." Stockholm Water is managing the largest water production and treatment plant in the whole of Sweden. The plant of 300 000 m³ with close to 20 km of tunnels is completely undergroud, encapsulated in the rocky soil. Why? When the WWTP was built in the 1930s, it was more cost-effective to build in rock than above ground. Building underground also enabled the facility to be extended later, without using up valuable land. The above-ground area is now jokingly called the toilet district by the locals. 🚽 Thank you so much Stockholm Vatten och Avfall for having us at Henriksdal for an insightful site visit! ⛰ Curious to know more about ANCHOR and what we're up to? Get involved 👉 https://lnkd.in/eJbWq6Vn 🤝 ANCHOR is an Interreg North Sea Programme project led by VITO-Vlakwa and carried out by project partners DuCoop, KWR Water Research Institute, Waternet, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, HAMBURG WASSER, Stockholms stad and NSVA - Nordvästra Skånes Vatten och Avlopp. ⚓ Team ANCHOR

Stockholm's Royal Seaport district you see below is the largest city development site in the whole of Sweden. 👀⚓ By 2040 this brand new innovative area will house 10.000 inhabitants. 🏘 It will be implementing different decentral waste water systems offering benefits to that local society. That's what ANCHOR is all about: bringing added value to our communities! 💪 Offering sustainable water sources for households, industry and public spaces such as a swimming hall. 🏊♀️ Today and tomorrow the ANCHOR partnership is meeting up in the beautiful Stockholms stad to shape future waterwise city districts. Today we hosted multiple workshops to share expectations and experiences of grey water reuse systems 🚿 as well as vacuum toilets 🚽 and heat extraction from waste water. Tomorrow we'll head out to Uppsala kommun to visit the eldest working vacuum system in the world. Curious to know more about ANCHOR and what we're up to? Get involved 👉 https://lnkd.in/eJbWq6Vn 🤝 ANCHOR is an Interreg North Sea Programme project led by VITO-Vlakwa and carried out by project partners DuCoop, KWR Water Research Institute, Waternet, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, HAMBURG WASSER, City of Stockholm and NSVA - Nordvästra Skånes Vatten och Avlopp. ⚓ Team ANCHOR

💥💥 Over 60 international attendees have confirmed. Are you joining too? Registration remains open: we hope to meet you next week online! 🗣 Lunch talk: Societal benefits of urban water systems 💦🌆 🗓 Tuesday 16 April ⌚ 12:00 to 13:00 CET 💻 Online on Zoom

We hope to welcome you at the ANCHOR project's lunch talk 🗣 About societal benefits of urban water systems 💦🌆 🗓 Tuesday 16 April ⌚ 12:00 to 13:00 CET 💻 Online on Zoom What are the benefits of such a source-separating wastewater system for society? How can we value wastewater resources and services?    The floor will again be open to your questions, and you'll get a chance to influence future digital lunch talks since we will collect your ideas on new topics.   We look forward to seeing you in April, and don't hesitate to share this invite in your networks. 📩   Let’s hoist the sails and take action for water wise city neighbourhoods! Register and join the lunch talk for free! 👇 Follow all about ANCHOR and sign up for the project news updates & events! 👉 🤝 ANCHOR is an Interreg North Sea Programme project led by VITO-Vlakwa and carried out by project partners DuCoop, KWR Water Research Institute, Waternet, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, HAMBURG WASSER, City of Stockholm and NSVA - Nordvästra Skånes Vatten och Avlopp. ⚓ Team ANCHOR

Discover the ANCHOR demo case ⚓ De Nieuwe Dokken in Ghent, Belgium next Thursday in this 💻📢 free webinar by Water Reuse Europe. Project lead Dries Seuntjens will talk about performance, experiences, drivers and future potential of Decentralized Water Treatment plants. Subscribe below! 👇 Can't make it on Thursday? 💥 You can still sign up to join the very first ANCHOR lunch talk about drivers for source-separating wastewater systems upcoming Monday! 🗓 Monday February 5 ⌚ 12:00 to 13:00 💻 Online on Zoom, all registrants will receive the recording afterwards! Full programme & registration here 👉https://lnkd.in/dD8pWhuU