Water

20 May 2025
Increased demand coupled with highly changeable availability – due primarily to the impacts of development and climate change – are increasingly impacting France’s water resource imbalance. In March 2...
In France, wastewater treatment is a regulated process. There are various ways of checking the quality of wastewater treatment systems. One of the tools used to ensure that they are working properly i...
26 March 2024
As of today, 8% of the 32.8 billion m³ of freshwater drawn from the natural environment each year is used in industry. According to the French Data and Statistical Studies Department (SDES)(1), since ...
8 March 2024
With water increasingly scarce, sustainable management has become essential to preserving both the quantity and quality of this vital resource. The estimates that “at least one in four people will liv...
19 December 2023
“Experts estimate that climate change could lead to a 10-40% drop in river flows and groundwater levels by the end of the century, as well as an increase in drought episodes”, states the information w...
19 December 2023
Preserving biodiversity, meeting agricultural, industrial and human needs, as well as mitigating risks of flooding, drought and water pollution. Today more than ever, water is a major economic, enviro...
24 November 2023
The need for better management of water resources is now clear to everyone, meaning we need to consume less and consume better. With this in mind, digital technologies and artificial intelligence are ...
29 August 2023
Key global challenges around water scarcity and water quality are developing rapidly, driven by climate change, regulation and health awareness. Nevertheless, these challenges are today still being ad...
24 April 2023
In the field of water management, the reed bed filter (RBF) system has been in place for almost thirty years in France. Originally intended only for wastewater treatment, it has since been used for ra...
30 May 2022
Degraded water tables, insufficient rainfall… France’s water resources were already ringing alarm bells by the spring of 2022. The French hydrological monitoring and forecasting committee met in mid-M...