Urban water full cycle: from its source to its end-users and back to the environment

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Balkan-Mediterranean

Date of latest update: 2022-10-04

Description

Description (EN):

The concept of water as a public good is one of the integrated water resources management (IWRM) key pillars: An integrated approach to managing & equitably sharing the world’s limited water resources, among the different & competing uses is the best way to achieve a fresh water secure world (Global Water Partnership). Although fundamental changes in water management policies is a fact, progress is slow in the BalkanMed area countries, composing a complex issue, requiring the adoption of immediate measures, in order to address the high level of vulnerability under climate change conditions (long term under‐investment, aging infrastructure/facilities in the water supply cycle). Nevertheless, EU has a history of over 30 years of drinking water policy. The WFD 2000/60, Drinking Water Directive 1998/83 & EU2020 strategy towards climate change & energy sustainability are the trigger of legislations’ harmonization. Complying with that, WATenERgy CYCLE project aims at developing a common methodological approach towards efficient & effective transnational water & energy resources management. Our common challenge is to increase the current low level of innovative technologies use along the water supply chain, from the water’s source to its end-users and back to the environment along with the increase in climate change resilience. WATenERgy CYCLE is a valuable & unique joint-tool for the design, preparation & implementation of an integrated multi-level approach in the urban (short term), rural & industrial (midterm) environment, promoting a Europe of worth living solidarity. A number of rational activities (networking, pilot actions, partner’s exchanges & meetings, training workshops) in the fields of innovation & environment are the main outputs. The demonstration of the joint innovative technologies & tools (developed & tested, 6 innovative joint implemented pilot actions) enhances the capitalization of the PPs’ experience. Through transnational strategy & policy recommendation, national & regional authorities, water & industrial operators, agricultural associations, & the general public benefit.Our approach is a synergy of 3 EU MS & 2 IPA countries, due to common river basin management, WFD implementation strategy & climate change vulnerability, promoting a holistic approach,raising a number of shared technical challenges.Furthermore, the river basins of the involved areas are transnational, characterized by crossing administrative & territorial borders.A common understanding & approach is crucial.Although the cost benefit analysis of the project’s results may be quite different from country to country, due to variation in local conditions, we will definitely learn to speak the same language in order to achieve a shift towards a more circular economy & worth living environment.Undoubtedly,water is a precious social good;let’s treat it wisely “every drop counts & its worth exceeds by far its real cost, growing every day we are mistreating it”.

Website: http://www.interreg-balkanmed.eu/approved-project/23/

Expected Results (EN):

WATenERgy CYCLE main results are: a) increase of the level of use of innovative technologies regarding climate change and overall water management efficiency, including energy efficiency; b) Reduced water losses and NRW in water distribution networks: identification of NRW causes; development of water distribution networks hydraulic simulation models; implementation of NRW reduction measures (pressure management; leakage detection) ;c) Water saving through informing consumers who will get water bills more often (shorter billing periods) as their consumption will be registered by smart water meters; d) Energy Recovery through installation of energy recovery equipment at selected locations of the water supply network; e) Full Water Cost (FWC) estimation methodology on a scientific model basis including direct, environmental, and resource costs calculations. An action plan is developed to assess and recover the FWC considering the WFD’s guidelines and the methods applied; f) Estimation and forecast of water demand related to the water price. Identification of the water price elasticity of demand; g) Identification and analysis of the current urban water pricing policies implemented by water utilities. Development of an action plan to apply the appropriate water pricing policies based on the FWC considering also the “socially fair price” principle; h) Water conservation by reducing water losses in distribution networks and water saving in water consumption through informed users with increased environmental awareness; i) Reduced carbon and water footprints and energy consumption in the entire water supply chain. Their contribution to the programme and to the result indicators will be the increase of the level of adaptation to resources efficiency and climate change resilience measures in alignment with EU policy up to 0,25 %.

Expected Outputs (EN):

WATenERgy CYCLE main outputs include the development of joint transnational strategy/policy of drinking water resources management & drinking water supply systems (WSS) in the Balkanmed area, along with the preparation of a common code of good practices /measures for water utilities. They will be engaged with the co-creation & signing of an MoU joined by all stakeholders involved during the project implementation & following its completion. These outputs are coherent with SO 2.2 as they are addressing the promotion of innovative technologies regarding climate change & overall resource efficiency, including energy efficiency. With this MoU, all the stakeholders agree to voluntarily take part in the project activities by contributing to the co-creation of sustainability action plan for the project’s results & impacts to the public (integration of the joint transnational policy to the national relevant ones & EU policy). The stakeholders agree to use the mutual know-how gained as well as they acknowledge that increasing water use efficiency with Non-Revenue Water reduction measures & increasing water saving by reducing water/energy consumption is the key to success. At project level, WATenERgy CYCLE forms a critical mass that can promptly deliver expected outcomes covering the entire cycle of Policy Planning based on Deming’s Cycle (PDCA). This mixture of institutional & operational stakeholders guarantees economic/institutional sustainability. PPs will involve a number of stakeholders including EU/national/regional/local governance; professionals’ associations; enterprises active in the water/energy sector; financial & research institutions; environmental NGOs; consumer organizations. All of them are directly linked with a variety of Energy Efficiency related activities & will be involved in the follow-up activities. Thus, all PPs at national/local level have already secured the necessary support to establish the same mixture of stakeholders met in the project.

Thematic information

Water management Energy efficiency

Specific Objective: Sustainable territories: fostering transnational cooperation for resource efficiency and climate change resilience

Thematic Objective: (06) preserving and protecting the environment and promoting resource efficiency by:

Investment Priority: (06f) promoting innovative technologies to improve environmental protection and resource efficiency in the waste sector, water sector and with regard to soil, or to reduce air pollution

Partners (8)

Lead Partner: Δημοτική Επιχείρηση ΄Υδρευσης και Αποχέτευσης Λάρισας

Address: END OF TYCHEROU strLarissa, Greece

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.deyal.gr/

Total budget: EUR 212 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 180 200.00

IPA2 budget: EUR 31 800.00

SHOQERIA AKSIONARE UJESJELLES KANALIZIME KORCE

Name: SHOQERIA AKSIONARE UJESJELLES KANALIZIME KORCE

Address: Rajoni Nr.1, Rr. “Boris Plumbi”, Nr. 20, 7002 Korce, Albania, 7002 Korce, Albania

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 165 600.00

ERDF budget: EUR 140 760.00

IPA2 budget: EUR 24 840.00

Δημοτική Επιχείρηση΄Υδρευσης και Αποχέτευσης Κοζάνης

Name: Δημοτική Επιχείρηση΄Υδρευσης και Αποχέτευσης Κοζάνης

Address: 2nd km KOZANIS-THESSALONIKISKozani, Greece

Legal status: public

Website: https://www.deyakozanis.gr/

Total budget: EUR 182 200.00

ERDF budget: EUR 154 870.00

IPA2 budget: EUR 27 330.00

ΣΥΜΒΟΥΛΙΟ ΥΔΑΤΟΠΡΟΜΗΘΕΙΑΣ ΛΕΥΚΩΣΙΑΣ

Name: ΣΥΜΒΟΥΛΙΟ ΥΔΑΤΟΠΡΟΜΗΘΕΙΑΣ ΛΕΥΚΩΣΙΑΣ

Address: LEOFOROS ATHALASSAS 84, STROVOLOS NICOSIANicosia, Cyprus

Legal status: public

Website: https://www.wbn.org.cy/index.php/el/

Total budget: EUR 212 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 180 200.00

IPA2 budget: EUR 31 800.00

ΕΙΔΙΚΟΣ ΛΟΓΑΡΙΑΣΜΟΣ ΚΟΝΔYΛΙΩΝ ΕΡΕΥΝΩΝ ΠΑΝΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΙΟΥ ΘΕΣΣΑΛΙΑΣ

Name: ΕΙΔΙΚΟΣ ΛΟΓΑΡΙΑΣΜΟΣ ΚΟΝΔYΛΙΩΝ ΕΡΕΥΝΩΝ ΠΑΝΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΙΟΥ ΘΕΣΣΑΛΙΑΣ

Address: Argonafton & Filellinon, GR 38221, Volos, Greece, 38221 Volos, Greece

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.civ.uth.gr/

Total budget: EUR 179 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 152 150.00

IPA2 budget: EUR 26 850.00

Българска асоциация по водите

Name: Българска асоциация по водите

Address: Sofia, 1 Hristo Smirnenski Blvd.Sofia, Bulgaria

Legal status: public

Website: https://bwa-bg.com/

Total budget: EUR 130 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 110 500.00

IPA2 budget: EUR 19 500.00

ЈКП Водовод и Канализација-Прилеп

Name: ЈКП Водовод и Канализација-Прилеп

Address: Aleksandar Makedonski st, nn, 7500 Prilep, 7500 Prilep, North Macedonia

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 165 600.00

ERDF budget: EUR 140 760.00

IPA2 budget: EUR 24 840.00

Γενική Γραμματεία Φυσικού Περιβάλλοντος και Υδάτων

Name: Γενική Γραμματεία Φυσικού Περιβάλλοντος και Υδάτων

Address: 2 M.IATRIDOU str. & KIFISIAS Ave. 115 26 Athens, 11526 Athens, Greece

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.ypeka.gr/

Total budget: EUR 100 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 85 000.00

IPA2 budget: EUR 15 000.00

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Joint Stock Company Water Supply and Sewerage Korce

Urban water full cycle: from its source to its end-users and back to the environment

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Municipal Enterprise for Water Supply and Sewerage of Kozani

Urban water full cycle: from its source to its end-users and back to the environment

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Water Board of Nicosia

Urban water full cycle: from its source to its end-users and back to the environment

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Municipal Water and Sewerage Company of Larissa

Urban water full cycle: from its source to its end-users and back to the environment

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Special Account for Research Funds of University of Thessaly

Urban water full cycle: from its source to its end-users and back to the environment

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Bulgarian Water Association

Urban water full cycle: from its source to its end-users and back to the environment

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Public Communal Enterprise Water supply and Sewerage-Prilep

Urban water full cycle: from its source to its end-users and back to the environment

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General Secretariat for Natural Environment and Water

Urban water full cycle: from its source to its end-users and back to the environment

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Summary

Project name (EN): Urban water full cycle: from its source to its end-users and back to the environment

Project acronym: WATenERgy CYCLE

Project start date: 2017-09-01

Project end date: 2020-10-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 346 400.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 144 440.00

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 862 920.00.
IPA/IPA II/IPA III: Amount, EUR 281 520.00.

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WATenERgy CYCLE: from its source to its end-users and back to the environment

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.interreg-balkanmed.eu/approved-project/23/

Publication date: 2022-08-11

Document date: 2021-05-25

Languages: en

Water Board of Nicosia

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://watenergycycle.eu/

Publication date: 2022-08-11

Document date: 2020-10-12

Languages: en, el

Presentations

Del. 3.1 Common WFD Implementation on FWC Recovery

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://watenergycycle.eu/

Publication date: 2022-08-11

Document date: 2020-08-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Del. 3.2 Water & Energy Audit

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://watenergycycle.eu/

Publication date: 2022-08-11

Document date: 2020-08-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Del. 3.3 Transnational Climate Change Impacts Assessment & SWOT Analysis

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://watenergycycle.eu/

Publication date: 2022-08-11

Document date: 2020-08-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Del. 4.1 Water Pricing under FWC recovery

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://watenergycycle.eu/

Publication date: 2022-08-11

Document date: 2020-08-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Del. 4.2 Water Auditing towards cost effective water use & volume efficiency

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://watenergycycle.eu/

Publication date: 2022-08-11

Document date: 2020-08-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Del. 4.3 Energy Efficiency and Recovery

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://watenergycycle.eu/

Publication date: 2022-08-11

Document date: 2020-08-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Del. 5.1 Ex-Ante Water efficiency evaluation

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://watenergycycle.eu/

Publication date: 2022-08-11

Document date: 2020-08-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Del. 5.2 Ex-Post Water efficiency evaluation

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://watenergycycle.eu/

Publication date: 2022-08-11

Document date: 2020-08-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Del. 5.3 Transnational Pilot Actions

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://watenergycycle.eu/

Publication date: 2022-08-11

Document date: 2020-08-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Del. 5.4 Ex-Ante Energy Recovery evaluation

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://watenergycycle.eu/

Publication date: 2022-08-11

Document date: 2020-08-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Del. 5.5 Ex-Post Energy Recovery evaluation

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://watenergycycle.eu/

Publication date: 2022-08-11

Document date: 2020-08-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Del. 6.1 Water Pricing Policy Recommendation

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://watenergycycle.eu/

Publication date: 2022-08-11

Document date: 2020-08-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Del. 6.2 Water Efficiency Policy Recommendation

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://watenergycycle.eu/

Publication date: 2022-08-11

Document date: 2020-08-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Del. 6.3 Energy Recovery Policy Recommendation

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://watenergycycle.eu/

Publication date: 2022-08-11

Document date: 2020-08-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Del. 6.4 Transnational Strategy, Policy Recommendation & Sustainability Action Plan

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Presentation

Data source: https://watenergycycle.eu/

Publication date: 2022-08-11

Document date: 2020-08-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project

Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Balkan-Mediterranean

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2022-12-09

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

44 / 44 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

282 / 282 (100%)

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Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://www.interreg-balkanmed.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-09-20.

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