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Last day for Water Innovation Europe 2020 conference and in the context of its fifth and last panel session dedicated to ‘A Water-Smart Society for excellent quality of Water’, Mathilde de Jongh from the European Junior Water Programme (EJWP) revealed the winner of the most innovative water initiative following the Sustainable Development goals.

WeCo is the winner for the Global Water Challenges Awards category. Cécile Dekeuwer, WeCo President received the award and spoke about WeCo’s expertise on recycling on-site the wastewater from public toilets. WeCo public toilets consume only 350 L of water per year, considering 100 daily users. The wastewater produced by toilets with the flush is treated on-site via a biological process and an electrochemical reactor killing the bacteria and clarifying the water, producing drinkable water quality for flushes or watering the plants or cleaning. This patented innovation is the first worldwide to treat and recycle onsite the black water within two hours and a reduced size technology of 2 m3, thus making it viable for a host of application scenarios. The potential savings are huge if one considers that standard public toilet uses around 156,000 litres of water per year

WeCo is a multidisciplinary team of sales, marketing, engineers and industry experts that is creating an innovative, sustainable and autonomous toilet, allowing toilets with a closed water loop to recycle the wastewater on-site. The final aim is to treat- recycle on-site all the waste from the toilets into resources. To learn more about their work, please click here.

WeCo has been awarded by the French Prime Minister and ADEME the Agency of the Ministry of sustainability and environment for the inov contest in sustainable cities' category. More than 866K€ grants should benefit to WeCo in the coming 3 years.

After winning the European SME Instrument Phase 1 competition in 2019, WeCo wins the Seal of Excellence of the European Commission for the quality and impact of its projects, as part of the Horizon 2020 competitions. All high quality proposals submitted to the Horizon 2020 instrument for SMEs that exceed the quality threshold but cannot be funded under the available call budget, receive the seal of excellence.

All the individual thresholds for the 3 criteria, that is to say the impact, excellence, quality and effectiveness of the implementation must be exceeded.

The Seal of Excellence certificate is issued to SMEs when they receive their assessment results from the Commission.

This will allow WeCo to provide a new guarantee of the quality and potential of its projects and actions with its investors, public and private funders, and other stakeholders. http://www.en.weco-toilet.com/ecological-flush/2020-02/seal-excellence-european-commission/