News from IFGR and the rivers of the world

Interview of Philippe GUETTIER, Managing Director of the French Water Partnership The French Water Partnership (PFE) is a forum of French public and private actors for the expression of collective messages on water, such as recently at the World Water Forum at Brasilia. What are its missions? Those of making a collective plea to give […]

The 8th World Water Forum, held from 18 to 123 March, brought together more than 40,000 people from 160 countries around the theme “sharing water”. Consensus was reached on an increasing number of critical situations, notably in cities such as Cape Town, faced by demographic pressure and climate change: new solutions have to be found to […]

On 15 March, during the cycle of conferences “Les Rencontres de l’Occitanie” organised by the newspaper Dépêche du Midi, Erik Orsenna, Chairman of IFGR and Martin Malvy, President of the Adour-Garonne Basin Committee, former Minister and President of the Regional Council expressed their international and regional visions on the rarefaction of water resources and how to […]

IFGR joined the NGO college of the French Partnership for Water (PFE), several weeks before the World Water Forum. The PFE is an important forum for French public and private actors in water with international scope, and it currently counts a hundred members. Founded in 2007, this association works to make water a priority in […]

The source of life and the lifeblood of our civilisations, water is a resource we must know how to preserve and share. A victim of climate change, it is also affected by pollution which involves rivers and oceans. 80% of ocean pollution is carried from the land by rivers and runoff, resulting in the discharge […]

Exploring the theme of rivers on a wider scale, beyond their sole uses as sources of energy, as waterways, and for irrigation. Being aware of their myriad facets in order to achieve sustainable results in a world become complex. Bernd Gundermann is convinced of their importance and invites us to understand rivers through a selection […]