News from IFGR and the rivers of the world

Gilles Mulhauser, Managing Director of the Geneva Water Agency and member of IFGR, will host the association’s 10th international session devoted to the links between rivers, lakes and cities. Before this meeting, he shares with us his feedback on the Covid-19 crisis and the challenges facing the cities of the future. How have you adapted […]

Despite a preoccupying situation at the end of April, the perspective of a major drought for summer 2020 has become less ominous for France. However, for Poland and the United States, the situation is particularly worrying. At the end of April, the American journal Science published the conclusions of research carried out by the Earth […]

On the eve of the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, the French Water Partnership (FWP), CNES and IFGR are organizing a conference on water & climate change. Paris le 12/10/2020 Water is a resource essential to life but particularly vulnerable, especially to the impacts of climate change. What would a world of water at […]

Saltwater intrusions are threatening agriculture of estuaries and deltas of the world’s largest rivers. Solar desalination, as proposed by OSMOSUN® offers a sustainable solution to meet local drinking water needs and reduce the pressure throughout the watershed, without any CO2 emissions in production!     According to the OECD, around 3.9 billion people could lack […]

Laos intends to build a new dam on the Mekong that will be operated by China, despite the criticisms of ecologists and the local population, who denounce its harmful impact on the environment and the lack of consultation.   A new project for a huge development program In recent years, the Laotian government has implemented […]

Covid-19 invites us to redefine health. Can we pretend to be healthy when we destroy biodiversity, when our plastic waste is ingested by marine animals before ending up on our plates? Today, Monday 8 June 2020, we celebrate World Oceans Day, the collective goods that we have a responsibility to protect and sustainably exploit the […]