Seminar: Making Decentralized Water Reuse Work

Location: KAIS 2020, 2332 Main Mall

Water and wastewater treatment are key to protect humans in cities by providing safe water and urban hygiene and to protect the aquatic environment from pollutants. Over the past century, urban water management allowed for healthy and pleasant living conditions in ever-growing cities in many parts of the world.

This presentation will discuss the potential for local reuse of treated greywater or wastewater and drivers for implementation. What are the scientific and technological challenges? How should technology be developed so that it is compatible with business models? How can appropriate local water reuse be implemented in a way that it does not jeopardize today’s achievements in urban water management and urban hygiene?

Basic sciences for gravity driven membrane (GDM) filtration and technology development for reuse of hand washing water in informal settlements or resource recovery at the building scale will be discussed.

Presenter Bio:
Eberhard Morgenroth holds an MS (University of California 1994), Dipl.-Ing. (Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg 1995), and PhD (Technical University of Munich 1998), all in civil and environmental engineering. After two years of postdoctoral research at the Technical University of Denmark, he was a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2000 to 2009). Since 2009, he is a Professor for Process Engineering in Urban Water Management with appointments at ETH Zürich and at Eawag. At Eawag, he is head of the Process Engineering Department. His research interests include wastewater treatment, membrane bioreactors for water reuse, control of biofilms, biofilm reactors, biological drinking water treatment, decentralized wastewater treatment, and energy recovery from wastewater and organic residuals. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journals Water Research and Water Research X.