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Your Planet Your Future
Sowing Seeds for the Next generation Careers for People and the Environment
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Water Quality and Health
CD2024_01 Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water supplies: A review of source, pathway, and fate for selected compounds
CREW Code: CD2024_01
Type of project: Call Down.
Project Status: Project complete. Click here to visit the publication page to view the project outputs.
Developing risk assessment approaches for PFAS and watch list parameters under the recast Drinking Water Directive
The research project conducted assessments of the potential presence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), 17β-estradiol, and nonylphenol for drinking water supply sources in Scotland, to identify high risk areas and enable prioritisation of monitoring and additional knowledge generation.
CRW2023_10 Review of psychoactive substances wastewater monitoring approaches and recommendations for the feasibility of applying different approaches in Scotland.
CREW Code: CRW2023_10
Theme: Water Quality and Health
Project status: Project complete. Click here to visit the publication page to view the project outputs.
Type of project: Capacity Building
Lead research team: The James Hutton Institute
Scotland faces a critical public health crisis with one of the highest drug-related death
World Water Day 2024 - Register now!
The Hydro Nation International Centre's World Water Day event, 'Leveraging water for a just transition' is fast approaching.
On 22nd March 2024, this hybrid event with live streaming will take place at Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh.
The programme for the event and Eventbrite link to register are available here: 2024 | Hydronation International Centre (hnic.scot)
Promoting water reuse
New publication: Making waves: Promoting municipal water reuse without a prevailing scarcity driver
The article below has been provided to CREW by the report authors: Dominic Duckett, Mads Troldborg, Sarah Hendry, Hubert Cousins
Water, Wastewater & Drainage Policy Consultation
Scottish Government's Water, wastewater & drainage policy consultation is open until 21st February 2024.
CREW Science Policy Fellowships
Type of project: CREW Science Policy Fellowship
Register of Expertise for the water sector
CREW's Register of Expertise
Connecting opportunity and capability in water science and policy
Visit register.crew.ac.uk
• Connect to opportunities
• Reach out to colleagues and share your work
• Explore skills and find solutions
• Widen your network
CREW's water sector Register of Expertise was launched on World Water Day March 22nd 2023.
Learn all about it here!
Tackling water & environment challenges is a win-win
There is no escaping the fact that we are facing serious global challenges when it comes to water. Growing populations, climate-change driven extreme weather events that result in shocks to our natural and built environment, depleted groundwater supplies, pollution from agriculture, industry and sewage… the list goes on.