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)