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• To develop innovative urban wastewater rege- neration solutions for small, medium and lar- ge treatment plants, adjusting the solutions to each specific case, depending on population size, water quality, as well as economic capa- city. For each size of population, customized solutions will be developed, according to their needs, in order to achieve total sustainability, which translates into technical, economic and environmental feasibility. • Quantify and eliminate emerging contaminants through advanced oxidation processes. • Quantify and eliminate microplastics through advanced filtration processes. • Design a transportable demonstration plant with more than 12 different technologies based on a flexible multi-barrier concept. Plug & play concept. • Optimization of irrigation through intelligent ma- nagement. • Diagnose the existing tertiary systems in the province of Almeria for their optimization, in or- der to achieve the new quality requirements for agricultural use, feasibility of upgrading existing plants to meet the new requirements. • Finally, develop a diagnostic tool that will make it posible to select the best combination of te- chnologies for each case, carrying out, in ad- dition, a mapping of the tertiary treatments of the existing treatment plants at the national and international level. Objectives and challenges Phoenix The Phoenix project will design and build several demonstration plants integrated into shipping con- tainers. These plants will be itinerant and will be tested in various locations throughout the Iberian Peninsula. The project will start in two treatment plants in the city of Almeria (El Bobar and El Toyo), operated by Aqualia as a concessionaire of the Municipal Wa- ter Service of the City Council. In this sense, the mayor, Ramón Fernández-Pacheco, has shown his satisfaction for the fact that the city welcomes this new demonstration project, vital for the local economy, which has in the agricultural activity one of its pillars. “The Phoenix has great environmen- tal potential and sustainability in that it is already seeking solutions to possible problems that could endanger the survival of irrigation water for agricul- ture, a sector of vital importance to Almeria in par- ticular and in Spain in general,” said the first ma - yor, for whom Almeria participation in this project “demonstrates the involvement and commitment of the City of Almeria with the future of our agriculture and our farmers. Carmen Navarro, representative of Employment, Economic Promotion and European Initiatives of the Delegation of Almeria, “the project arises after detecting early that the forced transposition of the future European directive to the national regulations could not allow that the infrastructures of regenera- tion of residual waters, that with so much effort have been executed in the province of Almeria, assure the standards of quality necessary for their use in cultures of greenhouse and of leaf outdoors, both of great importance for our economy”. Other locations in Spain will be Huelva and Toledo. In Portugal the chosen location is Abrantes, whe- re the Fonte Quente treatment plant is operated by Aqualia. The project will start in two treatment plants in the city of Almeria The Almeria City Council is the first to give the green light to the avant-garde Life Phoenix project. I N N O V A T I O N 51 I N N O V A T I O N