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Project summary:
The Mediterranean basin is one of the poorest regions in the world in terms of water resources. An increased water consumption rate for irrigation purposes along with a high urban population growth, have had an adverse effect on water resources. Thus most groundwater resources in the Mediterranean area are at risk of being exhausted through overexploitation. With limited renewable water resources, most countries of the area have been driven to reuse their wastewaters. However, specially in the east and northern Mediterranean regions, wastewaters are inefficiently treated or even re-used directly without treatment for irrigation or sanitary purposes, serving as a carrier for diseases or causing water pollution when discharged to water bodies. In the last decade, several water treatment technologies have been used in the region with little success on pathogens removal. Membrane bioreactor technology is a very promising alternative to those conventional water treatments for membranes act as a barrier against bacteria and viruses achieving a high degree of water depuration. However, most membrane bioreactors currently in use have very high running costs because of the high-pressure drop and high air-flushing rate required for their operation
The website of PuraTreat is based on the Web-Content-Management-System Typo3. Main focus on this project has been the layout - especially the menu realized with transparency. Several features have been implemented - e.g. a secured area for PuraTreat members. This user database has been connected with the forum user database - so the administrator of the website don't have to care about the correct user rights. Furthermore an upload/download has been implemented - now the page works as a communication and document-sharing platform.