Market trends

Smart Water business intelligence week 21/03/2022

Market

After the initial wave of the 1970s and 1980s, the interconnection of drinking water networks continues throughout France, at different scales. Urban growth, the NOTRe law and climate change combine to keep this market very active:

Interconnexion des réseaux d’eau potable : un chantier perpétuel

Technology

MIT chemical engineers create an affordable and sustainable soap-based system to remove emerging micropollutants in water:

[MIT] Using soap to remove micro-pollutants from water

Regulation

In 2019, the Water Agencies took stock of the state of their basin. They examined rivers and bodies of water, analyzed coastal waters, scrutinized groundwater, looked for a number of chemical substances, counted aquatic animals. All this has made it possible to draw up an inventory of water health in France. But the results remain far from the objectives set by the European Commission:

De la Bretagne à la Méditerranée, notre eau est en mauvais état

Financing

In Uganda, the government is announcing new financing of 94 billion Ugandan shillings (about 26 million euros) for the implementation of the second phase of the drinking water supply and sanitation project in Gulu, in the north of country. The funds were mobilized from the project’s financial partners, the World Bank, the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW), as well as the Ugandan public treasury:

OUGANDA : un financement additionnel de 26 M€ pour l’eau et l’assainissement à Gulu

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