A successful seminar was held on advanced gray water treatment and reuse.

The seminar, "Research into Advanced Greywater Treatment for Domestic Reuse", was attended by a large audience. Presentations were given by researchers from the GWR Project and Dr. Ian Vázquez-Rowe, an international guest and expert in life cycle assessment (LCA) from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.

The meeting presented developments in the GWR project, focusing on electrochemical processes for gray water treatment and the removal of emerging contaminants using sorbents. Other topics included obtaining high-quality water through membrane distillation and using gray water to irrigate green walls. Additionally, Dr. Vázquez Rowe took a global view of the issue and presented the environmental impacts of wastewater treatment. He highlighted the importance of considering life cycle analysis in any initiative developed in this area to adequately measure its scope.

The seminar was held within the framework of the FOVI Project, "International Collaboration Network for Research into Advanced Treatments Applicable to Gray Water for Domestic Reuse in the Context of the Global Water Crisis". This initiative involves the institutions that comprise the GWR Project: the University of Santiago de Chile (Usach), the University of Bío-Bío, and the Andrés Bello University, as well as four foreign institutions that are members of the network: the University of Cantabria in Spain, the European Membrane Institute at the University of Montpellier in France, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.

Impact of International Collaboration

The objective of this activity is to excel in applying advanced treatments to gray water and to explore those technologies that prove to be the most suitable for a variety of international water scenarios in greater depth, through a comparative analysis that considers the previous experience of network members. 
Another invaluable benefit is training human capital in gray water management and reuse from a multidisciplinary perspective in different environmental scenarios.