RESEARCH PROJECT
Managing Events and Extremes in Water Supplies (MEWS)
Updated: August 2026
Project overview
Project start:
April 2024
Ending:
April 2027
Project manager:
Hampus Markensten
Funded by:
FORMAS/Water4all
Participants
Research groups:
More related research
Global goals
- 6. Clean water and sanitation
- 13. Climate action
Short summary
The MEWS project aims to assess how current and future hydroclimatic extreme events affect drinking water quality, focusing on both inflows and the transport and processing of nutrients and organic carbon as they move toward the water supply intake.
The project will be developed in collaboration with stakeholders and will increase understanding of how extreme precipitation, drought, and antecedent hydrological and limnological conditions interact with climate change to affect water quality. To investigate the impacts of future extreme events, the project will develop a freely available modeling tool.
Participants
Project leader is Don Pierson at Uppsala university. Contact person at SLU is Hampus Markensten.
- Don Pierson
- Jorrit Mesman
- Hampus Markensten (contact person at SLU)
- Dolly Kothawala
- Yael Amitai
- Gideon Gal
- Shajar Regev
- Ioannis Keramidas
- Karsten Bolding
- Jorn Bruggeman
- Tom Shatwell
- Muhammed Shikhani