The Case 2019:
Drug residues in drinking water

During “The Case ”, seven groups of students of Fontys University of Applied Sciences work intensively on an assignment for five days. Their goal is to find the most creative and innovative solution for a particular problem. For this year’s Case, that took place last summer, water board Aa en Maas and BioArt Laboratories asked the participating groups to analyze the problem of growing pollution of surface water, and, eventually our drinking water, by drug residues. As such, they were asked to come up with solutions to prohibit these types of pollution.

This resulted in multiple very different inventions, all of which take action during a different step in the water treatment chain. Five of such prototypes have been presented at our Symbiocene Forest:

1. “Catchamed” toilet block (at home)
2. Reverse osmosis treatment (start of sewage treatment)
3. 3 –layer absorption system (end of sewage treatment)
4. Filter treatment and control (end of sewage treatment)
5. The liver (end of sewage treatment)

Want to see the groups present their prototypes? Watch the pitches of their presentations here on Youtube.