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Strategic lines
Guaranteeing safe drinking water
The solution proposed by the LIFE Cyanobloom project will provide an efficient process to ensure the supply of water services (drinking water intake, recreational water) that will guarantee the highest safety levels due to the 80-90% improvement in detection time and 10-20% improvement in toxic cyanobacteria bloom.
The need to guarantee drinking water, which is becoming increasingly scarce in some areas of Europe, means that solutions such as the one provided by this project are key to guaranteeing this supply in a safe manner.
Adaptation to climate change
Cyanobacterial blooms are a clear example of how rising temperatures across the planet, caused by global warming, can affect the health and quality of life of humans, animals and existing ecosystems.
In this context, the development of a tool for early detection of this problem is a great opportunity to adapt to the challenges of climate change.
The LIFE Cyanobloom project aims to be a turning point, focusing on prevention policy to solve the situation in time.
Innovation
Early detection and warning of cyanoHABs becomes of vital importance to effectively mitigate their effects. In this regard, the CYANOBLOOM project will provide an innovative approach that will combine optical methods (satellites and hyperspectral field systems) to detect, as early as possible, the occurrence of bloom with the possibility to act earlier than with traditional methods. The overall objective of CYANOBLOOM is to develop an early-monitoring solution for cyanobacterial blooms, overcoming the limitations of current monitoring solutions.
LIFE Cyanobloom aims to be part of the package of solutions needed to accelerate the ecological transition through innovation.
Replicability
One of the key elements of the project is that it involves the development of a tool that can be used and applied to any location. This solution will support water management authorities to allow the design of more effective actions to counteract cyanobacterial bloom events.
Collaboration
The CYANOBLOOM consortium is made up of a multidisciplinary team of 6 participants from Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, and Sweden. CYANOBLOOM has 5 SMEs: (ANBIOTEK, SISTEMAS GENOMICOS, WATER INSIGHT, BROCKMANN CONSULT and BROCKMANN GEOMATICS) and a non-profit environment cluster (ACLIMA).
The project is an example of collaboration in a European context in which each entity contributes its know-how and allows the solution to be tested in different locations, making its conclusions applicable to different environments.