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Water is becoming more important as a resource, as European cities implement an increasing number of green programmes

Faced with a looming ferocious summer with little rain forecast, the New South Wales government has embarked on a Noah’s Ark type operation to move native fish from the Lower Darling – part of Australia’s most significant river system – to safe havens before high temperatures return to the already stressed river basin.

Water outages could cripple Germany if pipeline and treatment investments are not made, community supply companies have warned. They say Europe's summer drought tested deliveries on a scale "long unknown."

This week, authorities in Vienna announced that Wien Energie, the city’s energy company, has set up heat pumps in one of the natural thermal water pools in the Austrian capital. Said pumps will collect heat from wastewater and feed it back to the district heating system, providing green energy for 1,900 households in the Oberlaa district.

The Spanish public water operator of the city of Seville, EMASESA, is leading the EU-Funded project LIFE WATERCOOL – a water-efficient systemic concept for the climate change adaptation in urban areas whose main goal is to develop and test innovative solutions to cope with climate change impact in the urban environment. LIFE WATERCOOL is an …

Au premier rang de ces ressources essentielles figure l’eau, dont la bonne gestion et la gouvernance (sa préservation, son mode de gestion mais aussi la pérennisation de ce dernier… ) sont un des enjeux majeurs des décennies à venir, à l’échelle planétaire comme à l’échelle locale, y compris dans des territoires qui semblaient jusqu’à présent préservés de tensions sur cette ressource. Quels rôles pour l’acteur public dans la gestion de cette ressource, entre meilleure implication des habitant.es, égalité d’accès et auto-gestion citoyenne ? Comment repolitiser le rapport à cette ressource essentielle voire, dans un contexte d’urgence climatique et environnementale, dessiner de véritables métamorphoses institutionnelles et juridiques ?

Remunicipalisation could help communities take back control in a way that transcends the 2016 Brexit referendum.
From sparkling water fountains to better waste services and lower drug prices, cities are showing the benefits of remunicipalisation

Promesse de campagne, la création d’une régie publique de l’eau constitue le premier dossier d’envergure de la majorité écologiste. L’objectif de la métropole : préserver les ressources tout en mettant en place « une tarification sociale et progressive ».

According to a new study by Finland’s LUT University, solar PV consumes between 2% and 15% of the water that coal and nuclear power plants use to produce just 1 MWh of output; for wind, this percentage ranges from 0.1% to 14%. Under the researchers’ best policy scenario, water consumption could be reduced by 75.1% by 2030, compared to 2015 levels.

EU cities and regions call for the proposed regulation on water reuse to be extended to green urban areas and suggest legal certainty formulas for operators and end-users