Innovative Integrated Tools and Technologies to Protect and Treat Drinking Water from Disinfection Byproducts (DBPs)

净水和消毒是向市民提供安全饮用水的关键过程，但由于土壤/淡水污染日益严重，水源质量较低，这使这一目标非常具有挑战性。氯等消毒剂与水中有机物反应产生的消毒副产物，即使在低浓度下也会对环境和人类健康产生严重影响。其影响尚不完全清楚。对人体肝脏活动和神经毒性的影响已经有报道。H2O for All项目旨在通过开发快速、成本效益高和准确的传感器监测设备，以及通过对饮用水分配系统中的扩散进行建模，来评估主要的DBPs来源和命运。此外，本项目还将对DBPs的毒性和环境影响进行研究，并提出保护饮用水链的措施。另一方面，将开发突破性的水处理方法，以消除二氯苯或避免在水消毒过程中形成二氯苯酚，并注意其生命周期分析、成本和风险。将建立一个中央知识库，其中包含关于欧洲DBPs的发生及其影响的可靠数据，以提高社会和政府组织对这些饮用水污染物的认识，以便得出新的政策回应和指导意见。

Water purification and disinfection are crucial processes to provide safe water to citizens, but the low quality of water sources due to soil/freshwater increasing contamination makes this goal very challenging. Disinfection byproducts (DBPs), produced when disinfectants, such as chlorine, react with organic matter in water, have a serious impact even at low concentrations on the environment and human health. The impact is yet to be fully understood. Effects on human’s liver activity and neurotoxicity were already reported. H2OforAll project aims to assess main DBPs sources and fate through the development of fast, cost-effective and accurate sensor monitoring devices and also by modelling their spread through drinking water distribution systems. In addition, DBPs toxicity and environmental impact will be studied in this project and measures will be proposed to protect drinking water chain. On the other hand, breakthrough water treatments to remove DBPs or avoid their formation during water disinfection processes will be developed, paying attention to their life cycle analysis, costs and risks. A central knowledge base with reliable data on the occurrence of DBPs in Europe and their effects will be created to increase awareness of society and governmental organizations about these drinking water contaminants in order to draw new policy responses and guidance.