Welcome to SAFIR
SAFIR seeks to address problems of Europe's clean water supplies, which are under severe stress in some areas.
To protect and sustain Europe's high quality water for drinking water purposes, we may need to expand the use of treated waste-water in Europe's agriculture. However some consumers may be resistant to that approach, wanting "pure food" grown in "pure water". How can we understand and address potential consumer concerns about this type of water irrigation?
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WP1 met in Israel May 2009
Workpackagde 1 people in SAFIR discussed treatment technologies at NetaFim in Israel |
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News
| 01 July 2009 |
SAFIR participates in important conferences |
 | A major outcome of the SAFIR research on water saving agriculture is developments of models and decision support systems. Hereby the results can be generalised and made useful to farmers around the world.
SAFIR has further developed the Danish model Daisy to take into account the advanced and water saving drip irrigation strategy, PRD - watering in shift either one or the other part of the crop root system. Detailed processes have been included in Daisy, e.g. 2D water flow and plant hormone (ABA) regulation of stomata
These new developments will be presented at two important conferences
ASA-CSSA-SSSA
2009 International Annual Meetings, November 1-5 in USA, www.acsmeetings.org
INTERDROUGHT-III Conference October 11-16 in China, www.interdrought.org
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| 26 June 2009 |
Water recycled means water saved |
 | Important knowledge about water and soil from the EU-project SAFIR, is being tested in southern Europe and other areas with insufficient potable drinking water.
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| 12 June 2009 |
Coping with water scarcity |
 | When the temperature rises five degrees and there is 20 percent less rain, will there still be food and something called agriculture in Greece, Italy and China? The first lesson of the SAFIR project is that water can be utilized more efficiently.
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| 12 June 2009 |
Important contribution to 6th IWA Leading-Edge Conference in Singapore |
| The poster "Decentralised water re-use solutions with
compact MBR reactors" can now be found under Results - Posters. The authors are from workpackadge 1, Søren N. Bak, Adriano Battilani and Finn Plauborg |
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| 17 March 2009 |
SAFIR contributed to Research Platform - Water, Third Annual meeting |
| see Agenda, abstracts and presentations at
http://www.forskningsplatformen-vand.dk/Documents/Annual%20meeting%20jan%2009/index.html
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SAFIR Final conference
25 September, 2009, CDMA building
Room S1, rue du Champs de Mars 21
1050 Brussels
Fresh food production
with use of new water and water saving irrigation - a sustainable future?
The conference presents innovative water saving methods in irrigated agriculture, state of the art treatment technology, impact and risk of using new water (treated waste water) for irrigation, economical feasibility studies, and farm management DSS
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PMG-meeting March-April 2009
SAFIR group photo from PMG meeting in Belgrade, Serbia, March 2009 |
3rd annual meeting
SAFIR group photo from 3rd annual meeting in Orleans, France, October 2008 |
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