Meetings

The aim is to highlight the seminars by presenting the main lines of these seminars in the form of a short summary illustrated with examples and testimonials. They help to disseminate information on the major issues of tomorrow, on the preservation and restoration of biodiversity, and in particular for achieving the goal of achieving good water status imposed by European and national policies.

A hardcopy of each document may be requested as long as stocks last. Please justify your request when writing to veronique.barre [a] afbiodiversite.fr

Engineering the water continuum - n°16 |

The notion of an aquatic continuum has become critical to understanding aquatic ecosystems in that it emphasises the need for an integrative approach, spanning both the spatial and temporal scales, to water management. Incorporating this concept in ecosystem engineering is a major challenge. In addition to mobilising integrated, multi-disciplinary scientific methods, this approach must take into account not only the fact that human uses of water are highly diverse and interconnected, but the many stakeholders as well.

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Management plan to save the eel. Optimising the design and management of installations - n°15 |

Over the past 3 years, the Eels & Installations R&D programme launched 18 research projects to optimise the design and management of installations to protect migrating eels. This feedback symposium sketched a panorama of the results achieved in a series of presentations addressing the operational aspects of issues. The presented solutions and tools pave the way for a collaborative response by the economic participants to the challenge of restoring the species.

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Water status and the Water framework directive. A review of assessment methods - n°13 |

In view of the 2nd management cycle of the Water Framework Directive, 2011 constituted a key year for developing and ensuring the compliance of water status assessment methods. 2 scientific information days focusing on bioindication were followed by 2 days of discussions in order to review the progress made, the prospects for the development of methods used for assessing water status in France, and the tools of the water status assessment system (système d’évaluation de l’état des eaux - SEEE).

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Treatment of wastewater, sludge and septage in small to mid-sized towns - n°11 |

The main goal of this symposium organised during the 2010 Pollutec trade show was to provide the French sanitation sector with operational tools to assist in meeting regulatory requirements and protect aquatic environments. It was also an occasion to hold a debate on priorities for research and future developments, taking into account operational needs.

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Drinking-water abstractions and nonpoint-source pollution - n°10 |

Protection of drinking-water abstractions from nonpoint-source agricultural pollution was already a major health issue 30 years ago and has today become an urgent regulatory problem. In parallel with the Water framework directive, which set goals for good water status by 2015, the Grenelle environmental agreement identified 500 priority abstractions for which action plans must be set up by 2012. The wide-ranging discussions produced a vast array of information on people’s experiences, technical solutions, opinions and questions. A review.

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