Drinking water quality are today monitored by few yearly grab-samples using methods with long incubations or complex extraction and concentration procedures. Thus a deterioration of the water quality will not be discovered before the consumers already have been drinking the water and short term contamination incidence may occur unnoticed. The use of sensors for (close to) on-line monitoring, will change the paradigm of today with monitoring as end-of-pipe-control, to monitoring as a active tool in the control of production and distribution of drinking water.

The consortium consists of 4 universities, 3 research institutions, 5 private companies & 3 water companies and is lead by professor Hans-Jørgen Albrechtsen, DTU Environment.