PRESAGE: Potential of decentralized wastewater treatment for preventing the spread of antibiotic resistance, organic micropollutants, pathogens and viruses

Objectives

New approaches are needed to reduce the emission of contaminants of emerging concern (CECs). Some sources contribute strongly to such emissions, which has driven the focus of PRESAGE on innovative decentralized wastewater treatment (WWT), based on anaerobic and aerobic compact systems. An integrated analysis of the behaviour of organic micropollutants (OMPs), antibiotic resistant microorganisms and genes (ARMs/ARGs) and pathogens (viruses and bacteria) will be carried out from wastewater to the discharge in aquatic ecosystem.

Laboratory members involved

CRBE (PI : Eric Pinelli ; participants : Florence Mouchet, Maialen Barret, Alexandre Thibodeau, Van Xuan Nguyen, Marion Vivant, Laury Gauthier, Jérome Silvestre)

Actions

PRESAGE project aims at better understanding the relationship between the operational parameters of reactors, the microbiological evolution in the system, the removal of OMPs and pathogens, and the development of ARMs and ARGs. The technologies will be validated at 4 demosites treating black and grey water, and effluents from hospitals and an antibiotic industry, in close collaboration with the industrial sector. The contribution of the complex mixture of OMPs, pathogens, ARGs and ARMs remaining in the final effluent will be assessed in terms of ecotoxicity and impact on antibiotic resistance dissemination in the environment. In the proposed treatment strategy a minimum global impact is targeted, preferentially promoting the onsite water reuse.

Funding period

Du 2021-06-01 au 2024-12-30

Partners

Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain (Coordinator : Francisco Omil)
University of São Paulo, Brazil (PI: Marcelo Zaiat)
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark (PI: Henrik Rasmus Andersen)
Technische Universität Dresden, Germany (PI: Thomas U Berendonk)
Faculty of Engineering of Univ Porto, Portugal (PI: Luis Melo)

Budget

1 151 820€

Website : https://www.jpiamr.eu/projects/presage/