European Sustainable Development Week 2024

OiEau is particularly involved in achieving SDG 6, which aims for universal and equitable access to drinking water, hygiene and sanitation by 2030.

For the past 30 years, OiEau has been supporting the expansion of water-related environmental issues (drinking water production, wastewater treatment), to meet the changing needs of today and tomorrow: biodiversity, circular economy and adaptation to climate change.

Every day, OiEau's 150 experts carry out a range of cross-disciplinary and complementary actions, from local to international level, with the aim of improving the management of water resources to ensure access to sufficient quality and quantity of water for all.

OiEau supports water and environment professionals (public and private operators, managers, elected representatives, industrialists, institutional players, water and health agencies, etc.) in implementing institutional and technical actions for integrated, sustainable, ecosystem-based and innovative water management.

This support takes the form, for example, of coordinating innovative European projects such as :

• Spongescapes: improving scientific knowledge of the sponge function of soils and aquatic ecosystems at the scale of territories in European river basins in order to improve resilience to extreme hydrometeorological events.
• NATALIE: to support territories in becoming resilient to climate change through the implementation of nature-based solutions (NBS).

For more than 30 years, OiEau has been supporting professionals in the process of improving and acquiring the knowledge and know-how of their teams. It is with this in mind that OiEau, as the secretariat of the International Network of Water Training Centres, and its partners launched the Bali Coalition on the occasion of the 10th World Water Forum 2024.

The aim? To promote training as an essential tool for accelerating the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and in particular access to drinking water and sanitation.

OiEau's multilingual experts have a wide range of expertise in the fields of water and environmental management, digital knowledge management and exploitation, data quality and standardisation, IT development and digital infrastructures.

In this way, OiEau helps private groups and public bodies to meet the challenges of climate change with reliable, comparable and usable information.

In France and abroad, OiEau is also involved in integrating actors with a wide range of profiles into a network of exchanges and partnerships, taking advantage of the synergies between them to highlight all the facets of the expertise available.

In this context, it provides the permanent technical secretariat of the International Network of Basin Organisations (INBO), whose main mission is to support all initiatives to organise Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in the catchment areas of national or transboundary rivers, lakes or aquifers.