WaterMiner

WaterMiner is a joint research project under the framework of the research programme “Sustainable technologies and concepts for an increase of water availability through water reuse and desalination” (WaVE) of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

The Hon Gai peninsula in the province of Quang Ninh, Vietnam, is characterized by competing land uses in a limited space. Challenges and conflicts in the water sector arise between the contrasting poles coal industry, urban environment, and tourism in the Ha Long bay and preclude a sustainable urban and regional development. In particular, a harmonized integrated water management between the coal mining industry and the city with the main focus on water reuse and water recycling is missing. For this, an appropriate approach should be developed, which considers the spatially and temporally variable water availability and the different water uses of the region.

The project has 7 sub-projects:

– Sub-Project 1: Project coordination, project communication, capacity development, reporting, public relations, baseline survey: hydrology, hydrogeology, water resources management
– Sub-Project 2: Cadaster on water-related infrastructure: „mobile cadaster“ for the computer-based documentation and control of water-related infrastructure during on-site inspections
Sub-Project 3: Information system for monitoring: integrated „Information System Monitoring“ based on the software GW-Base and GW-Web
Sub-Project 4: Spatial and temporal material flow management for water reuse: spatial-temporal planning for the reutilization of mining-impacted waters and drainage waters in the mines as well as for other water users in the region by using a simulation model based on Umberto NXT
Sub-Project 5: Comprehensive technical concept: water treatment, water distribution, regional integrated control, coal dust reclamation
Sub-Project 6: Economic concept, acceptance
Sub-Project 7: Exemplary implementation of a technical concept incl. monitoring (pilot watershed), joint design, joint supervision of implementation

Spatial -temporal adjusted recirculation and reutilization of mining impacted waters, example from an urban affected mining area

Duration

08/2016 - 12/2019

Project area(s)

Hồng Gai, Quảng Ninh province

Coordination (GER)

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Harro Stolpe
Ruhr-University Bochum,
Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
eE+E Environmental Engineering and Ecology
Universitätsstraße 150
44801 Bochum
+49 (0)234 – 32 27995
harro.stolpe@rub.de
http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ecology/

Coordination (VN)

VINACOMIN Vietnam National Coal – Mineral Industries Holding Corporation Limited
226 Lê Duẩn
Đống Đa, Hà Nội
http://www.vinacomin.vn/

Project partner (GER)

  • Ruhr-University Bochum, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, eE+E Environmental Engineering and Ecology
  • Ribeka GmbH, Bornheim
  • Disy Informationssysteme GmbH, Karlsruhe
  • Groundwater Research Center Dresden (DGFZ), Dresden
  • LUG Engineering GmbH, Cottbus
  • Koblenz-Landau University, Umweltökonomie (Environmental ecology)

Project partner (VN)

  • VINACOMIN Vietnam National Coal – Mineral Industries Holding Corporation Limited
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