Code: LIFE20 ENV/ES/000687

Specific programme: LIFE Environment and Resource Efficiency
UPV/EHU Partner Status: Beneficiary
UPV/EHU PI: Iñaki Antigüedad
Project start: 01/09/2021
Project end:   31/08/2025
 

Brief description: The LIFE URBASO project aims to show that high-quality water yield with reduced sediment load, THMs and PTAs can be maintained through careful planning and adequate forest management of the upslope areas of drinking water abstraction points. It will develop its approach in the Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve where 39 abstraction points are located in forested areas, of which 13 are in pine and eucalypt plantations.

LIFE URBASO will thus demonstrate an innovative methodology for improving the quantity and quality of raw water through land use management using nature-based solutions. The main objective is to protect areas for abstraction points of water for human consumption as set out in Article 6 of the Water Framework Directive.