Wastewater, as a by-product of various human activities, can serve as a valuable source of information for understanding a population's health, behaviour, and consumption patterns. Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is a well-established field that uses wastewater analysis to monitor the...

Depression is a central marker in mental health issues due to its widespread prevalence, significant disability burden, and extensive social and economic impacts. The COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing conflicts, natural disasters, and the climate crisis have exacerbated mental health challenges across...

Hurricane Beryl set a precedent for what is predicted to be an extremely active hurricane season for the entire Atlantic basin. This hurricane intensified at an explosive rate to become the earliest Category 5 (on the Saffir Simpson scale) Atlantic hurricane on record. From 01 July to 09 July,...

The Gateway to the Future of the Mediterranean explains the interplay between water, energy, food and the ecosystems in the region. Compelling illustrations and graphics employing a companion app give access to new audiovisual content, paintings and augmented reality features which create a...

As an input to the design of a Legal Instrument on Water Reuse in Europe, this report recommends minimum quality requirements for water reuse in agricultural irrigation and aquifer recharge based on a risk management approach.

This report describes work conducted to assess the feasibility of an experimental monitoring exercise in support to a so-called Watch List Mechanism under the Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC in a collaborative design involving EU Member States laboratories and some 200 official monitoring...

The aim of this work was to evaluate two different digestion procedures for the determination of the concentration of trace and major elements (As, Cd, Co, Cu, Cr, Fe, Mg, Mn, Ni, P, Pb, Sb, V, Zn) in five hundred randomly selected soil samples from LUCAS Soil Survey. The two procedures employed...

Following the identification of the need to find innovative solutions to water challenges in the urban, industrial and agriculture contexts, an EU regulatory instrument for water reuse has to be developed by 2015. Despite the water reuse applications already developed in many countries, there...