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WaterTOP Virtual Conference, 22 Feb 2024 The WaterTOP Virtual Conference “Water taste & odor (T&O) – Challenges and research advances”, was organized by the Core Group on 22 Feb 2024. It included 15 presentations, 3 Invited Speakers (Andrea Dietrich, Tsair-Fuh Lina and Arash Zamyadi) and 2 Q&A-discussion sessions. Attendance was beyond…Continue reading “waterTOP agenda”

WaterTOP Featured in “BULAQUA”of the Bulgarian Water Association

An article about WaterTOP is included in the latest edition of "BULAQUA", a publication of the Bulgarian Water Association - BWA. The article is featured in pages 32-24 of the…

Towards effective protection of water resources and human health – WaterTOP Featured in News Medical

4 Jun 20205 Jun 2020

An article about WaterTOP is posted in News Medical, one of the world’s leading open-access medical and life science hubs. You can read the article here.

Taste and odour in water: early warnings of possible troubles?

WaterTOP is featured in AlphaGalileo, with an article by Galina Dimova, Triantafyllos Kaloudis and Reyhan Akcaalan. "The covid-19 pandemic has shown us that public health can be endangered by “hidden…

On the removal of IPMP from water with UVA/chlorine – First research paper to acknowledge watertop.

2 Jun 20203 Jun 2020

A research paper by Maria Antonopoulou et al. was published in the journal Science of the Total Environment. The study evaluated the UV-A/Chlorine process, a promising advanced oxidation process (AOP),…

WaterTOP’s New Logo !

Our competition for the WaterTOP Logo design has been successfully completed ! The Management Committee voted for the best Logo design among the 30 submissions, in two voting rounds. Competition…

Streptomyces produce geosmin and MIB to attract bugs in order to promote spore dispersal

A new study on the ecological role of geosmin and MIB was recently published by Becher et al in Nature Microbiology. The authors show that geosmin and MIB "mediate interactions…

How we perceive complex smells

A recent study by researchers of the Columbia University explored how neurons within the peripheral olfactory epithelium of a mouse’s nose responded to a series of odor mixtures. They observed…

WaterTOP message on World Water Day2020

"Today is the World Water Day! In the previous years, all over the world it was celebrated. 2020 is different… The humanity realizes, in a dramatic way, that we are…

WaterTOP LOGO Competition

17 Feb 202016 Mar 2020

Update: New Deadline for submissions is 30 April. "Stay home, be creative and submit a WaterTOP Logo !!!!" WaterTOP announces a competition for the Action's Logo Design. Download the call…