Dr. Rubén Reif, LEQUIA researcher, will join in October the Department of Environmental Sciences of the University of California Riverside (http://envisci.ucr.edu), one of the 10 universities within the prestigious University of California system. His research topic will be pollution by pesticides in urban environments.

From April 2011 Rubén Reif has worked in LEQUIA as researcher of the project NOVEDAR (www.novedar.com), whose goal is to develop the wastewater treatment plant of the XXI century. The main challenges of the project are to improve recovery of water and materials, to reduce energy consumption and operational costs, and to minimise sludge production.