Market trends

Smart Water business intelligence week 11/09/2023

Market

Our battle against water shortage in France is based on three tactical principles: prevention, restriction and sanction. If it proves to be essential for day-to-day management, this triptych does not respond to the scale or the acceleration of the problems. Drought episodes will multiply and it is critical to reinvent a strategy including new water consumption patterns and investments in innovative approaches to water production, exploitation and conservation:

«L’eau doit être un élément essentiel d’innovation» – la tribune de Bruno Bonnell (Plan France 2030)

Technology

Recently, a research group led by Professor ZENG Gaofeng of the Shanghai Advanced Research Institute (SARI) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Professor SHI Guosheng of Shanghai University, developed graphdiyne composite membranes with high desalination stream for seawater:

Researchers Develop Ultrahigh-water-flux Membranes for Seawater Desalination

Regulation

Jointly published by FAO and the World Bank, “Irrigation from Space: Using Remote Sensing for Agricultural Water Management” specifically examines the use of the WaPOR portal for this monitoring. The authors of the brief argue that the correct application of WaPOR combined with economic data can lead to better policy and investment decisions and more sustainable management of agricultural water in regions where water is rare :

(FAO) Irrigating from space: how remote sensing technology can make a difference

Financing

Ofwat, the UK’s water sector economic regulator, is calling on water companies with bold and innovative plans to solve some of the water sector’s biggest challenges to apply to win the fourth Water Breakthrough Challenge. To date, Ofwat’s £200 million Innovation Fund has allocated more than £105 million to projects in England and Wales that are pioneering solutions to improve the sector’s environmental impact some water :

Ofwat’s Innovation Fund seeks bold and ambitious entries to Water Breakthrough Challenge 4

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