Water is the elixir of life on Planet Earth, being equally fundamental for humans and ecosystems. A major global challenge nowadays is to sustain its drinking quality at sufficient quantities for the entire population. A huge investment in resources keeps the drinking water production at marginally sufficient levels in many parts of EU, as droughts, disasters and pollution events prohibit the maintenance of required quantities.

WQeMS aims to provide an operational Water Quality Emergency Monitoring Service to the water utilities industry in relation with the quality of the ‘water we drink’. It will focus its activities on monitoring lakes valorized by the water utilities for the delivery of drinking water, by detecting water quality changes, algal bloom events, land-water transition zone changes and extreme events (floods and oil spills). Moreover it will detect emerging events from the community. Engineering leads the design, integration and deployment of the WQeMS platform. We are responsible for the development of the front end functionalities and for the interfaces to interact with IoT devices and external non-EO resources. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Action programme under Grant Agreement No 101004157.