Deliverable 5.2.4 (" Effectiveness of an innovative technology for treating raw municipal wastewater in tourist areas") of MEDIWAT Project

MEDIWAT project is aimed at identifying and/or developing innovative and integrated solutions (technical, operational and administrative) for managing environmental issues related to the quality and quantity stress presently afflicting Med islands. One of the specific objectives of the project is carrying out pilot projects for evaluating specific tools for mitigating water quantity and quality stress as well as managing water demand. In particular, several pilot projects are foreseen in the three phases of the component 5, i.e.: phase 5.1: pilot projects on quantity stress; phase 5.2: pilot projects on quality stress; phase 5.3: pilot projects on demand management. This deliverable reports the results obtained in the pilot project titled "testing a single step innovative process for treating raw municipal wastewater in tourist areas", carried out in Apulia (Italy) by the partner IRSA, within phase 5.2 of the component 5. This report is structures as follows. Chapter 1 briefly summarized the background of the pilot project (i.e., state of art of wastewater treatment in tourist areas) whereas Chapter 2 describes the methodology used (i.e., the innovative SBBGR technology) and the operating programme. Chapter 3 shows and discusses the results obtained during the pilot experimental campaign. The main relevant results (i.e., those exploitable and feasible in all the Mediterranean islands) are summarized in Chapter 4.