Market trends

Smart Water business intelligence week 26/02/2024

Market

The ambition of this note and the 22 public policy proposals it sets out is to discuss new forms of organizations that are more resilient to water constraints which will only intensify in the years to come:

[Institut Rousseau] Institutionnalisons la sobriété hydrique en France

Technology

It turns out that high-energy electron beams are excellent candidates for destroying PFAS in the environment. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, in collaboration with 3M, have successfully demonstrated that an electron beam can destroy the two most common types of PFAS in water: PFOA and PFOS:

Researchers at Fermilab use electron beams to eradicate forever chemicals in water

Regulation

The consumer defense NGO Foodwatch is filing a complaint before the Paris judicial court against Nestlé Waters and Sources Alma, suspected of having illegally treated their bottled waters and of having sold them without informing consumers:

Eau purifiée illégalement : Foodwatch dénonce une “fraude massive” et porte plainte contre Nestlé Waters et Sources Alma

Financing

The Biden administration (USA) announced that the different states of the territory would share $5.8 billion in federal funds for water infrastructure projects across the country, financed thanks to one of its main legislative victories:

The White House is distributing $5.8 billion in the largest investment for clean water

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