From November 16th to 18th 2022, the Nexus Ness Consortium partners met for the 3rd General Assembly, discussing on project workplan and updates. During the event, the NEXUS-NESS coordinator prof. Fernando Nardi had the occasion to connect remotely to the COP27 NEXUS side event in Sharm El Sheik (Egypt), presenting the goals, the methodology and the rationale of NEXUS NESS project within the framework of PRIMA Program.
The meeting was held at the venue of Department of Civil Engineering within the University of Florence – Santa Marta complex.
This event – both in-presence and online mode attended by all partners – was the occasion to discuss also on socioeconomic impacts and gender dimension and issue related to the NEXUS.
On Friday 18th November 2022 representatives of the NEXUS-NESS Consortium visited the Italian Nexus Ecosystem Lab in Val di Cornia. The visited started at the Guardamare wastewater treatment plant in San Vincenzo, thanks to the support of the water utility ASA spa. The site visit helps the participants to get insights on tertiary treatment processes, energy consumption and maintenance costs for the use of reclaimed water in irrigation areas. The Mayor of Suvereto municipality, Jessica Pasquini, and the president of the Land Reclamation and Irrigation Consortium Toscana 5, Giancarlo Vallesi, participated to the light lunch and presented their vision on the need to integrate at planning level water resources management with management of energy production and consumption, with special regard to agricultural production. Rudy Rossetto, (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna) then drove the Consortium to visit the Suvereto Managed Aquifer Recharge scheme built within the framework of the EU LIFE REWAT project. Participants were interested in this nature-based solution to provide water at low costs and with no environmental impacts.
