Contact person

Dr. Uwe Dünnbier

Berliner Wasserbetriebe Motardstr. 35 13629 Berlin uwe.duennbier[at]bwb.de www.bwb.de

Partners

Berliner Wasserbetriebe, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung, Umweltbundesamt, Zweckverband Landeswasserversorgung Stuttgart

Brief description

Objective

Enhancement of analytical methods for anthropogenic trace organic compounds and multi-resistant bacteria, completion of the knowledge about their behavior in the urban water cycle

Key activities

• Target and non-target analytical methods: further development of target analytical methods for the gathering of the elimination capacity of water treatment stages; development of non-target analytical methods that are independent of the used analyzer system, communication via the data base DAIOS for the identification of unknown substances
• Methodical investigations about human exposition: impact of human excretions as a source of anthropogenic trace organic contaminants; development of analytical and screening methods as well as the data base related prediction of transformation products
• Microbiology: analysis of antibiotic-resistant or rather multi-resistant bacteria at natural and technical barriers of the urban water cycle