Jointly understanding and validating the system and challenges

Boundary conditions

  • Serving multiple goals, like ecosystem, water availability and use, tourism
  • Quality: use, reuse, discharge
  • Quantity: precipitation, groundwater flow, buffering
  • Sustainability: circular, safe, robust
  • Location: Land use, spatial planning, salt intrusion, land ownership, environment, access
  • Meeting local needs: safety, agriculture, industry, households
  • Acceptance

Stakeholders

  • Industry (Dow, North Sea Ports, Evides)
  • Agriculture, horticulture, livestock
  • Government (water board Scheldestromen, Province of Zeeland, municipality Terneuzen, …)
  • Consumers / community / households / nature / recreation

Contacts therein:

  • Dow Benelux / HZ: Niels Groot
  • Province of Zeeland: Thecla Westerhof
  • Water board Scheldestromen: Walter Oomen
  • Municipality Terneuzen: Jeannette Groeneveld
  • Evides: Piet de Boks / Wilbert van den Broek
  • North Sea Ports: n.t.b.

Prerequisites

Knowledge requirements on water quality (in a wider perspective). This is app. 75 pages from J.R. Mihelcic and J.B. Zimmerman (2014) Environmental Engineering, 2nd edition, Wiley & Sons, about

  • Environmental protection and sustainability (2-24)
  • Units, concentrations (38-40 and 48-58)
  • Reactions and equilibria: pH, redox, dissolution (83-93)
  • Ions and element cycles (224-230)
  • Impact of oxygen demand (337-342)
  • Eutrophication, nutrients (344-346)
  • Basics of primary, secondary and tertiary waste water treatment (454-458, 474-479)
  • Water reclamation and reuse examples (498-499)