The Workshop “Digitalization of Bathing Water Management” organized by Water Europe (WE), together with the Horizon 2020 project digital-water.city, the EU-LIFE project iBathWater and the Synergea project took place online on the 5th of April. It was moderated by Pascale Rouault, KWB Department Leader urban systems, Co-Leader of Water Europe’s Working Group Water & Zero Pollution. The objectives of the workshop were to: • Draw concrete policy recommendations for the ongoing revision of the Bathing Water Directive (BWD), • Explore the benefits of digital innovations such as online sensors, machine learning, processbased models and mobile apps for managing microbial safety of bathing water sites, • Promote an open-source data-driven early-warning system, which is currently developed within digital-water.city.

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 820954.