The 4th TOUREST partners’   meeting  was held  in Crete,  on 9th and 10th  October 2019.

The technical meeting took place in Rethymno city, on October 9th , with the participation of all partners.

The next day, partners and stakeholders representatives of TOUREST project (from the Hellenic Authority for Geological and Mining Research and from Crete Development Authority SA) visited  the  Municipal Water Supply and Sewerage Company of  Malevizi,  at the suburbs of Heraklion city, where  they were informed of the actions and good practices being implemented there, such as the installation of ‘smart’ home water- meters that send a real time  signal with information about water consumption and pressure, as well as water meters violations.

In the afternoon they had the opportunity to  visit a 5 star hotel in the popular touristic area of ​​ “Hersonnisos”, where good practices of modern and standard water saving methods are applied, such as drilling and subsequent reverse osmosis and filtering procedures, automatic night watering with a water saving system, and underground irrigation system in order to reduce evaporation .

4th project meeting_RoC

4th project meeting_RoC