📋 Tender Overview
Start Date: 01/07/2023
End Date: 30/06/2027
Total Eligible Budget: 4,959,056 €
EU Contribution: 2,953,027 €
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
BACKGROUND
As a result of the urbanisation process and the impacts of climate change, urban areas in Europe must cope with an increase in demand for drinking water and a rise in extreme weather events such as drought and/or flooding. The collection and re-use of cleaned rainwater for urban green areas replaces the use of drinking water for these purposes, helps prevent local floods and buffers the urban sewerage system, thus preventing harmful overflows.
LIFE GreenLED addresses the issue of drinking water shortages by providing an innovative circular approach to rainwater harvesting, storage, cleaning and application. The project designs, implements and monitors its circular approach in parts of two European cities: Alphen aan den Rijn City Centre (The Netherlands) and Parc Oeste in Madrid (Spain). As each of the demonstration sites has different requirements, regulatory aspects and climate related challenges, the project demonstrates two different scenarios.
LIFE GreenLED tests a combination of Bluebloqs and UltraViolet-C Light-Emitting Diode (UVC LED) technology. BlueBloqs is a nature-based biofiltration and aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) technology, already applied in several documented municipalities in The Netherlands.
