EARGE was established in 2017 as a women entrepreneur company in the university technocity to provide process technology development support for acid drainage, drinking and wastewater treatment projects. In the past period, it has two completed projects that provide site and project specific acid drainage retardation/prevention and industrial wastewater treatment-reuse plant design (IWWTRP). IWWTRP has the technology to treat wastewater from 9 different production units with automation in 11 different programs and recover a minimum of 70%. In addition, there is an R&D project (submitted to the Ministry) on the design, installation and operation of a dry stack tailings storage facility suitable for site and material properties. My team has a completed (not yet published) project on model-comparative process-based determination of water quality change and contaminant mobility in unintentional and unmanaged aquifer recharge in a sub-basin with declining groundwater levels. My working team (providing expert support from universities on a project basis when necessary) has considerable experience in providing instantaneous and full-time representative test and field data on process-based mixing of different waters (precipitation, wastewater, dam waters, river waters etc.) in mass balance of water quantity and quality, aquifer interaction, comparison of model (PHREEQC) simulations with real data (equilibrium and reaction kinetics), technical and economic feasibility of scenarios.
Topic 1. Mapping, monitoring, and assessment for a better understanding of ecosystem services in a context of changes, from local to global change.
Topic 2. Understanding and predicting multiple pressures (including anthropogenic pressures) - impact - response relationships in ecosystem services through advanced methods and techniques.
Topic 3. New tools and solutions for a better integration of ecosystem services into the management of water resources.
Our working methodology includes conceptualization of basin water ecosystem activity, representative quantity and quality, comparison with hydrogeochemical models along possible flow paths and evaluation with other supporting test methods. If we can work collaboratively in a project, measurement, analysis, monitoring with direct and indirect sensors can be extended basin-wide (Gediz/K.Mend. Basin Türkiye) using current state-of-the-art techniques. Comparisons can be made with existing ecosystem monitoring data, and processes, components and activities that may affect pollution trends can be distinguished. In order to determine the controllability of the identified trends, climate change, wastewater treatment and agricultural activity scenarios can be created in the basin dynamics. These scenarios can be tested with PHREEQC inverse, forward and mixing models (equilibrium and reaction kinetics for some parameters) and compared with actual field and test data. Validity and sensitivity analysis of the models can be performed. Social, technical and economic constraints based on activity, pollutant and climate in the river basin can enable alternative determination of ecosystem service scope and constraints. Progress can be made in providing decision support in determining the scaling-up potential of the obtained methods and monitoring recommendations in different basins and globally. I would like to take part in a project where we can contribute to the solution.
water security in water scarcity, interaction, activity-based chemical pollution, surface-groundwater, monitoring, sensors, irrigation waters, wastewater treatment technologies, river basins