News from IFGR and the rivers of the world

The extreme heat wave that has hit Australia since December 2018  caused the death of a million fish in the Murray-Darling basin at the beginning of the year. The increase in the water temperature, combined with the fall in river water levels, triggered the proliferation of an algae that deprived the fish of oxygen. According […]

According to the Government Observation and Statistics Department published in 2015, the cost of maintaining wetlands increased four-fold between 2000 and 2013, while those of preventing pollution, especially from agriculture, increased five-fold. In addition to its environmental and human costs, water pollution incurs increasingly high economic costs. New pollutants, such as antibiotics and endocrine disruptors, […]

Interview with Mohammad Mozammel Haque, President of the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) and member of IFGR   Mohammad Mozammel Haque is the President of the BIWTA, which is the authority responsible for controlling river transport in Bangladesh. He explains the challenges that rivers face in this country, one of the most vulnerable to […]

In October, IFGR brought together its experts for the 7th session at Toulouse and Bordeaux on the theme: “Resilience of territories to climate change: how can the need for water be reconciled with its availability? The example of the Adour-Garonne basin”. The report on the exchanges and recommendations formulated between the actors in the domain of water […]

2018 was marked by a severe drought in Iraq, a country formerly rich in water. The effects of climate change are visible with lower rainfall than in previous years and a steep increase in temperatures. But all crises are complex with many origins, and climate change only worsens a latent plight. Political instability, conflicts and […]

The concept of “nature-based solutions” is fairly recent but already present in international debates on water. The latest world report by the United Nations on harnessing water resources was devoted to these solutions for water management. The generic definition  is given by the International Union for Conservation of Nature in France (IUCN) which defines them as […]