When achieving maximum sustainability in the water and sanitation sector has become a vital goal, it is interesting (and necessary) to investigate some concepts related to the management of the integr...
The arrival of 2021 has been hailed as an opportunity to "debug" some of the worst moments left by 2020, overshadowed by the global pandemic of COVID-19, still active. The reality is that the change o...
In November 2020, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) released the 2020 State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) report. More of 200 pages in which the organization presents ...
What if the trend of the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic could be foreseen through wastewater? This question is not only not thrown at random, but it already has an answer thanks to a study in whic...
After exposing what the Internet of Things could contribute (and already contributes) to the wastewater management sector, on this occasion, we expanded the concept to “digitization” to finish underst...
Water is one of the most precious natural resources on our planet. Assuming that organisms - people, animals and vegetation - need it to live, it is understandable that we are (very) interested in pre...
Water shortage has become a vital issue to be addressed. More and more areas of the planet are suffering from water stress or are very close to suffering it. The problem is global and finding a soluti...
Although recently, we explained in this blog how the European Union (EU) had urged several countries to improve their urban wastewater treatment, the news in this regard has changed a bit. In the midd...
That freshwater is one of the natural resources that suffers a great mismatch between availability and demand and that it is increasingly under stress conditions is nothing new. Or, at least it should...
In 2015, plastic production exceeded 280 million tons (Mt). It is estimated that its production will double this figure in 2035 and quadruple by 2050. Although it is undeniable that the plastics indus...
The climate emergency is accelerating the need and, at the same time, the rise of circular economy projects. Such a strategy, which aims to establish a model in which both the input of virgin material...
In mid-May, we posted on this blog the document published by Water Europe stating that one of the keys to post-Covid-19 recovery would be to move towards a "Water Smart Society". At that time, the San...
