Filter membranes with micropores tend to spread to provide drinking water or to desalinate sea water. Nanostructured filter materials are being considered to complement these devices; for example, to filter pesticide and drug residues or to clean up water tables. The expected efficiency gain
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Si Rhône-Alpes se lance maintenant dans l’adaptation au changement climatique, l’eau sera son atout. La reconquête de la qualité de nos cours d’eau avance fort : la pollution organique de nos cours d’eau a été divisée par dix en 15 ans. Nous avons sorti de la médiocrité les rivières les
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Les satellites pilotes des cultures, les filets-capteurs d’eau comme l’organisation des tours d’eau dans les villages, garantissent encore l’accès à l’eau au Maroc. Jusqu’à quand ? Pour un pays pris entre augmentation de la productivité fruitière et céréalière et le changement climatique, l’optimisation des utilisations de l’eau est un défi
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How to involve citizens in water management? How can we raise awareness of the complex challenges related to this resource that we share and that is vital to us? For thirty years, a third of the world's population has had no access to drinking water. This figure remains unchanged and
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Water is an essential resource that is increasingly under threat and requires better management to sustain life and economic development in the coming decades. If we do not address the problem now, what will happen when the world's population reaches the expected 9 billion people?
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In the Middle East, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Syria are competing for limited water resources. At the heart of this policy of water conquest is the Jordan River basin. State of play. Is the Middle East the scene of armed conflicts over water? "I prefer the term political tensions
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Today, 800 million people do not have access to safe drinking water. How can this be remedied? This is one of the questions that the participants of the 6th World Water Forum, which took place at the beginning of March in Marseilles, tried to answer: the village of solutions, in which one of the tents groups together
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After several months of work, studies and commissions, the 6th World Water Forum and the Alternative Forum opened their doors at the beginning of March in Marseilles. For 5 days, researchers, NGOs, ministers, local authorities and companies met to discuss access to water in poor countries, water governance, sanitation and pollution.
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