SMART WATER

Project start: august 2021

Project end: june 2022

METCENAS contact person:

Ing. Pavel Míšek

E-mail: pavel.misek@metcenas.cz

 

SMART WATER is focused on the implementation of information and educational activities in the protection of the environment in order to reduce the negative impact of human activity on water quality, which will ensure an improvement of the competences of target groups in the environmental field following sustainable regional development and water protection.

Project timeframe2. 8. 2021 – 30. 6. 2022

SMART WATER focuses on 4 types of activities:

  • Creating scientific as well as popularising outputs - a set of short films and an educational programme for the popular science broadcast Meteor on Czech Radio channel Dvojka to explain to the widest audience the phenomenon of micropollutants, their behaviour in the environment and possibilities of their removal.
  • Creating a popularising publication for the general public entitled "Does clean water really exist? On what the laboratories are discovering in aquatic environments".
  • Setting up 5 tutorials and lectures for the public and research community.
  • Creating leaflets that will be part of the awareness-raising campaign on the SMART WATER project and its activities.

 

 

Supported by grant from the people of Norway.

State environmental fund of the Czech Republic: www.sfzp.cz/norskefondy

EEA and Norway Grants: www.eeagrants.org

 

We have released the second short film::

Is it necessary to be afraid of water pollution, which we had no idea about until recently?

 

On June 16, 2022 another seminar of the SMART WATER project took place in Prague:

Introduction of nature-friendly technologies in cities: practical examples from the Czech Republic and third countries (Nepal)

The film screened as part of the seminar::

Who takes care? Or artificial wetlands in practice

 

On June 16, 2022 another seminar of the SMART WATER project took place in Prague:

Introduction of nature-friendly technologies in cities: practical examples from the Czech Republic and third countries (Nepal)

Lecturers:
doc. Jan Těšitel (AMBIS vysoká škola, a. s.)
prof. Jaroslav Macháček (VŠE Praha)
RNDr. Zuzana Boukalová (VODNÍ ZDROJE, a.s., METCENAS o.p.s.)

The seminar will take place on June 16, 2022 from 10:00

Prague University of Economics and Business, W. Churchill Sq. 1938/4, Prague 3 – Žižkov, 3rd floor – New Building, conference room No. 350

free entry

Click here to download the invitation (in Czech language only)

 

On June 9, 2022, another seminar of the SMART WATER project took place in Ostrava:

Is there clean water? About what laboratories discover in the aquatic environment "Emerging pollutants"

Lecturer: doc. Zbyněk Hrkal (hydrogeologist, university pedagogue, researcher, author of detective novels, traveler, writer of non-fiction)

The seminar will take place on June 9, 2022 from 10:00

VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Faculty of Civil Engineering, room UA4, Ludvíka Podéště 1875/17, Ostrava-Poruba

free entry

Click here to download the invitation (in Czech language only)

 

We have published the third set of leaflets about the SMART WATER program:

Click here to download the PDF-leaflet

 

On May 9, 2022, another seminar of the SMART WATER project took place in Pilsen:

Identification of new pollutants in the water environment and water pollution by pharmaceuticals and micropollutants

The seminar is organized under the auspices of Dr. Michal Kepka (Department of Geomatics, FAV ZČU)

Lecturer: doc. Zbyněk Hrkal (hydrogeologist, researcher, traveler, writer and university pedagogue)

The seminar will take place on May 9, 2022 from 13:30 to 15:30

University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Faculty of Applied Sciences (FAV), room UN-656, Technická 8, 301 00 Plzeň

free entry

Click here to download the invitation (in Czech language only)

 

We have published the second set of leaflets about the SMART WATER program:

Click here to download the PDF-leaflet

 

On 9.3.2022, a seminar of the SMART WATER project took place in Třeboň:

The impact of human activities on water quality in the context of the region. "Success story" of the Třeboňsko Biosphere Reserve

The seminar took place in the restaurant Šupinka and Šupina, part of which was a walk along the dam of the Svět pond with a commentary (RNDr. Miroslav Hátle, CSc.)

Lectures:

RNDr. Miroslav Hátle, CSc. (NCA CR): History, Problems and Present of the Třeboňsko Biosphere Reserve – the impact of human activities on water quality in the region

Mgr. David Stella Ph.D. (CzechGlobe): "Success story" of the LIFE One Nature project

Assoc. Prof. Jan Těšitel (CULS): Cultural and sociological aspects of environmental and surface water protection in the Třeboňsko Biosphere Reserve (CULTIVATE project)

 

In the popular program Leonardo on the Czech Radio Plus, another block have already been broadcasted:

Until recently, we did not know about water pollution from drugs. And we don't know what to do with it yet, admits hydrogeologist Hrkal (aired February 5, 2022, in Czech language only)

 

We have published the publication:
Does clean water really exist? On what the laboratories are discovering in aquatic environments

Click here to download the publication (in Czech language only)

 

We have published the first set of leaflets about the SMART WATER program:

Click here to download the PDF-leaflet

 

In the popular program Meteor on the Czech Radio Two, two blocks have already been broadcasted:

Is it possible to poison yourself with mineral water? (aired October 9, 2021, in Czech language only)

Are the rivers full of medicines? (Are the rivers full of medicines? (aired December 11, 2021, in Czech language only)