Wars, salinization and climate change the demand for small dual water plants. Given that water is becoming scarce in more and more regions worldwide, technologies that were originally only intended for arid regions are also becoming relevant in Germany. IEEM, the Institute for Environmental Engineering, has developed a new concept for small waterworks as part of a project funded by the BMBF. This is intended to help where one natural water source alone is no longer sufficient.

The latest FONA newsletter featured a report on the CLIENT II project FarmImpact. The project has explored solutions to climate change-induced water shortages on farms in South Africa.

From 19 to 23 September 2022 a training on Web Processing Services (WPS) and their integration in the multi-risk analysis tool (RIESGOS demonstrator) developed within the RIESGOS 2.0 project took place at CENEPRED (Centro Nacional de Estimación, Prevención y Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres) in Lima, Peru.

The CLIENT II project DUB-GEM has documented in a new video how the exploration of a uranium waste site in Kyrgyzstan works with the drone-based DUB-GEM system.

A lot has happened in the revolBRAS project: In October 2022, face-to-face meetings with Brazilian stakeholders took place at the K-2022 trade fair in Düsseldorf, and the project coordinator RITTEC Umwelttechnik was awarded the Startups Connected 2022 in Brazil. The team is also planning a field study in São Paulo city in November 2022.

The RAIN project team was pleased to report that it held a successful dissemination workshop in Accra, Ghana. On 28th of September 2022 Ghanaian and German partners from research as well as the private and public sector discussed the results of the project “RAIN - Sustainable Technologies and Services for Adaptation to Climate Change in Flood- and Drought-prone Settlement Areas in Ghana”.

How can solar energy be used to generate steam for industry? Is it viable for my company? These were the kinds of questions answered at the latest workshop organised by the JOSSI project.

In October 2022 the project team of PEPcat met in Schwalmtal (GER) at the plant constructor SIMA-tec. The self-designed pilot plant will be built there in the coming weeks.

The DAMAST and DAMAST-Transfer project teams gave an insight into their research results so far at the conference on monitoring the lifespan of flood dams in Tbilisi on 15 September 2022. They were also able to present the ongoing and future work in the DAMAST-Transfer project.

On 14 September 2022, the DAMAST and DAMAST-Transfer teams organised a discussion meeting with Armenian scientists. Among other things, the participants discussed the state of the art and the improvement of research potentials.