Taking the “waste” out of wastewater
As appetite for the world’s most important resource continues to grow – from water use in industrial processes and agriculture to intensity of urban demand – nextGen is setting out …
Raise a glass to sustainability!
NextGen partners helping the Swedish island of Gotland overcome severe water challenges devised a unique collaboration and advertising campaign to demonstrate how effective wastewater reuse and treatment can be… Bottling …
WINNER: NextGen demonstration awarded Dutch water innovation prize
Transformational wastewater purification system developed by NextGen partners and a project case study wins at 2018 innovation awards. Water treatment process brings space station technology inspired by nature back down …
EYDAP presents NextGen at international benchmarking workshop
Participants in the IB2017 benchmarking exercise for Western Europe gathered in Athens, Greece between 14 – 16 November 2018, for the 12th edition of the annual benchmarking workshop. The gathering was an …
Enabling Water in the Circular Economy
The water sector is making great efforts to become more sustainable. This was evident in the numerous presentations, sessions and posters dedicated to the topic at IWA Tokyo. Now it …
Circular water solutions for the next generation
Flagship European initiative aiming to challenge the status quo and provide circular economy innovations for the water sector takes first steps at project kick off meeting, September 2018. A dynamic …
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The second World Circular Economy Forum 2018 (WCEF2018) took place from 22-24 October 2018, in Yokohama, Japan. The world’s biggest global gathering on circular economy solutions brought together more than …
Closed-loop systems used to keep astronauts alive in space could inform circular economy strategies
Dr Christophe Lasseur, coordinator of the European Space Agency’s Micro-Ecological Life Support System Alternative (MELISSA), studies how to keep astronauts alive in space by recycling their waste products into water, oxygen, food and other materials. Using this expertise is helping the NextGen project design circular economy solutions for water on Earth.
The circular economy – a solution to the world’s water crises?
After narrowly avoiding “Day Zero”, Cape Town proved to the world this year that water should not be taken for granted – and as low levels of rainfall are compounded by heat waves in Europe, experts are calling for change in our consumption patterns and innovative water management strategies to help protect our most precious resource.