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Project Sustainable concepts towards a zero outflow municipality

- Zer0-M aims at concepts and technologies to achieve optimised close-loop usage of all water flows in small municipalities or settlements (e.g. tourism facilities) not connected to a central wastewater treatment.

- the Zero Outflow Municipality (Zer0-M),several technologies are already available, which allow efficient wastewater treatment and re-use without hygienic risks on a low-cost and easy-to-handle level. These include: sanitation systems with low water consumption; separation of grey and black water; biological treatment of grey water and re-use for non-drinking purposes (e.g. irrigation); bio-membrane reactors for intense treatment; constructed wetlands for extensive treatment; and sludge hygienisation for re-use as fertiliser.

 

- http://www.tu-berlin.de/zuv/IIIC/fordat/ze/4400/11612.htm

Project number n/a
Subject(s) DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION : COMMON PROCESSES OF PURIFICATION AND TREATMENT , HEALTH - HYGIENE - PATHOGENIC MICROORGANISM , SANITATION -STRICT PURIFICATION PROCESSES
Acronym Zero-M
Geographical coverage Egypt, Morocco, Turkey, Tunisia, Austria, Germany, Italy
Budget (in €) 4413255
Programme MEDA-WATER
Web site http://www.zero-m.org/
Objectives The project's target groups are: experts from administration, planning and engineers. Awareness-raising measures also target schools and the interested public. Zer0-M wants to enable one centre in each country to implement and disseminate SWM solutions and to promote its technologies and approach among authorities and consumers.

- Main issues to be taken into consideration are:

  • function, treatment performance and maintenance requirements of existing SWM technologies

  • integrated concepts for different applications of decentralised waste water treatment and re-use

  • small settlements in rural areas with agricultural production

  • isolated tourism facilities

  • peri-urban areas not connected to a centralised waste water collection and treatment system.

  • hygienic aspects and good practice to avoid health hazards, with special regard on re-use of wastewater and sludge for irrigation and fertilisation.

  • costs and tariffs.
Results - Projects planned:
  • setting-up of an internet network for experts on the above topics; building up links to existing websites; organisation of regional and international conferences; publication of a journal. (know-how exchange)
  • training and workshops in Training and Demonstration Centres (TDC) in four MEDA-Partner countries addressing different target groups; excursions for experts to visit existing SWM examples in EU countries; updating of relevant legislation in order to discuss SWM-friendly regulations
  • realisation of Zer0-M installations attached to four TDCs (components: water-saving household and sanitary appliances, biological grey water treatment, membrane bioreactors, constructed wetlands); monitoring; pilot implementations for a site in Egypt, a Tunisian rural settlement and a development site in Morocco (technology transfer)
  • case studies on four small municipalities or settlements in the 4 MPCs with the elaboration of Zer0-M concepts; developing cartographic visualisation and representation tools; a software tool for modelling economic effects and a life cycle assessment of environment and health aspects of SWM components
  • CD-ROM containing a video and information about SWM for different target groups (awareness raising)
Period [01/09/2003 - 01/09/2007]

Partners

  • AEE INTEC
    -Arbeitsgemeinschaft ERNEUERBARE ENERGIE Institute for sustainable technologies
    Coordinator acts as project coordinator
    Type
    Country Austria
    Web site http://www.aee.at/
    Contact Mr Regelsberger Martin,
    Position: General coordinator of the project
    Phone/fax: +43-3112 5886-50, +43-3112 5886-51
    Email: m.regelsberger@aee.at
  • Ambiente e Lavoro Toscana – O.N.L.U.S. (ALT)
    Type
    Country Italy
    Web site http://architettura.supereva.com/alt/welcomesc.html
    Contact Mr. Masi Fabio,
    Position:
    Phone/fax: +39–055 5036203, +39–055 580485
    Email: masi@altnet.it
  • Tübitak-Marmara Research Center (MRC-ESERI)
    Type
    Country Turkey
    Contact Mr. Ahmet Baban,
    Position:
    Phone/fax: +90-262 6412300, +90-262 6412309
    Email: Ahmet.Baban@mam.gov.tr
  • Water Research & Pollution Control Department, National Research Centre, Dokki, Cairo, Egypt (NRC)
    Type
    Country Egypt
    Web site http://www.nrc.sci.eg/nrcweb1/Vice-President1.jsp
    Contact Mr. Abdel-Shafy Hussein I.,
    Position:
    Phone/fax: +202-4018235, +202-3370931
    Email: husseinshafy@yahoo.com
  • Institut National de Recherche Scientifique et Technique, Laboratoire Eau et Environnement (LEE)
    Type
    Country Tunisia
    Contact Mr. Ghrabi Ahmed,
    Position:
    Phone/fax: +216-71 410 740, +216-71 430 934
    Email: Ahmed.ghrabi@inrst.rnrt.tn
  • Institut Agronomique et Vétérinaire Hassan II, Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Unit (WTRU)
    Type
    Country Morocco
    Web site http://www.iav.ac.ma/
    Contact Mr. EL HAMOURI BOUCHAÏB,
    Position:
    Phone/fax: 212-37 77 75 64, 212-37 77 75 64
    Email: b.elhamouri@iav.ac.ma
  • TU Berlin, Zentraleinrichtung Kooperation (TUB) Cooperation and information for environmental questions (kubus)
    Type
    Country Germany
    Contact Ms. Hoffmann Gisela,
    Position:
    Phone/fax: +49–30 314 24617, +49–30 314 24276
    Email: gisela.hoffmann@zek.tu-berlin.de

Publications

  • “Sustainable Water Management” Journal
    This journal, “Sustainable Water Management”, is an initiative of the project “Sustainable Concepts towards a Zero Outflow Municipality (Zer0-M). The project is part of the Euro-Mediterranean Regional
    Programme For LocalWater Management of the European Union (Meda Water) and the countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea.
    Publisher Zer0-M
    Type of document Newsletter
    Rights Public
    File link http://www.aee-intec.at/0uploads/dateien346.pdf
    Source of information Zer0-M project
    Keyword(s) Zer0-M, MEDA-Water, EMWIS, ISIIMM, EMPOWERS, IRWA, MEDAWARE, MEDROPLAN, EMWater, ADIRA
    Subject(s) DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION : COMMON PROCESSES OF PURIFICATION AND TREATMENT , HEALTH - HYGIENE - PATHOGENIC MICROORGANISM , SANITATION -STRICT PURIFICATION PROCESSES
    Relation http://www.emwis.net/initiatives/medaeau/fol719001/fol948061
    Geographical coverage Egypt, Morocco, Turkey, Tunisia
  • Zer0-M newsletter 2-2007 - August 2007
    This is the latest issue of the Sustainable Water Management Journal,produced in Zer0-M, a project in the Euro-Mediterranean RegionalProgramme for Local Water Management.
    Publisher Dipl.-Ing. Martin Regelsberger, AEE - Institute for Sustainable Technologies A-8200 Gleisdorf, Feldgasse 19
    Type of document Newsletter
    Rights Public
    File link http://www.zer0-m.org/phpatm/index.php?direction=0&order=&directory=Zer0-m%20Journal&
    ../PDF/Zer0-M_Journal_2007_2 (copy)
    Source of information Zer0-M project
    Keyword(s) EU-MEDA-Water
    Subject(s) AGRICULTURE , DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION : COMMON PROCESSES OF PURIFICATION AND TREATMENT , SANITATION -STRICT PURIFICATION PROCESSES
    Relation http://www.emwis.net/initiatives/medaeau/fol719001/fol948061
    Geographical coverage n/a
  • Zer0-M Journal (1-2008)
    The next issue of Sustainable Water Management journal is available. Find it in the archive of the Zer0-M homepage for download (PDF 2,5 Mb). The journal is mainly about the last Zer0-M conference and interesting presentations there (there will also be a desalination issue specially dedicated to the conference).

    In time for the International Year of Sanitation 2008 you will also find a vision statement by the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance. There are French abstracts for all papers this time, to make it easier for those readers who are predominantly French to decide, whether it's worth going through the full English paper.
    Publisher Dipl.-Ing. Martin Regelsberger, AEE - Institute for Sustainable Technologies, A-8200 Gleisdorf, Feldgasse 19
    Type of document Newsletter
    Rights Public
    File link http://www.zer0-m.org/phpatm/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=Zer0-M_Journal_2008_1.pdf&directory=Zer0-m%20Journal&
    Source of information Zer0-m Journal
    Keyword(s) EU-MEDA-Water, Zer0-M
    Subject(s) DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION : COMMON PROCESSES OF PURIFICATION AND TREATMENT , HEALTH - HYGIENE - PATHOGENIC MICROORGANISM , SANITATION -STRICT PURIFICATION PROCESSES
    Relation http://www.emwis.net/initiatives/medaeau/fol719001/fol948061
    Geographical coverage Egypt, Morocco, Turkey, Tunisia, Austria, Germany, Italy
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