News from IFGR and the rivers of the world

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 […]

It is a phenomenon about which much is said though it is not always easy to understand. The data collected by NASA over 25 years on the oceans provide greater clarity on the problem: they reveal that the level of the sea increasing almost everywhere and, above all, that this trend has strengthened in recent […]

The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture has announced that fishing in the Yellow River (Huanghe) is prohibited from 1 April to 30 June as of this year. The aim is to protect aquatic organisms in the river basin from overfishing. The decision holds not only for the river itself but also for its 13 main tributaries […]

The 8th World Water Forum will be held from 18 to 23 March 2018 in Brasilia, organised by the World Water Council and the Brazilian government. Based on the theme of “Sharing Water”  the forum will gather more than 40,000 people from 160 countries, representing the political world, civil society, the private sector, the academic […]

It is important for Initiatives for the Future of Great Rivers to widen its network of partners in order to develop its levers of action, pursue dialogue between the world’s rivers and give voice to concerns about them, alongside the other actors in water. Your action and financial support are needed to ensure our functioning […]