Project description

The project Green4Water is an Italian national research project that is coordinated by the University of Bologna and funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research within the call PRIN 2015. The other participants in the project are the University of Catania, the University of Palermo, the University of Padova and the Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria. The main objective of the project is to study and optimise the use of the green infrastructures in the urban and rural areas in order to achieve the sustainable management of water resources and to protect water bodies.

In particular, the project is oriented to wastewater treatment and natural water retention measures. If applied on a larger scale, such green infrastructures could have numerous benefits and positive impacts on scientific, technical, social and economic sphere.

During the duration of the project Green4Water studies, special research and monitoring activities will be performed on various real or pilot scale systems. They are located in the areas with different climate and regional conditions, in the production (agricultural, agroindustrial and zootechnical), urban and suburban areas. In particular, the objectives are to evaluate and optimise the performance, technical and economical application, their capacity to offer services, efficiency, and modes in which the analysed green infrastructures can be managed.