Water-Smart Management of Bathing Waters via Digitalisation - Challenges and Opportunities

The Workshop “Digitalization of Bathing Water Management” organized by Water Europe (WE),
together with the Horizon 2020 project digital-water.city, the EU-LIFE project iBathWater and the
Synergea project took place online on the 5th of April. It was moderated by Pascale Rouault, KWB
Department Leader urban systems, Co-Leader of Water Europe’s Working Group Water & Zero Pollution.

The objectives of the workshop were to:
• Draw concrete policy recommendations for the ongoing revision of the Bathing Water Directive
(BWD),
• Explore the benefits of digital innovations such as online sensors, machine learning, processbased models and mobile apps for managing microbial safety of bathing water sites,
• Promote an open-source data-driven early-warning system, which is currently developed within
digital-water.city.