The project “In search of water” is a participatory science program launched by the French Office of Biodiversity, to which every French citizen can contribute. Its objective: to improve the knowledge of the flow of our rivers, How can we do this? By completing the existing scientific data with your personal observations of the flow […]
Several texts, supported by ill-informed or ill-intentioned deputies and senators, from the lobbies of the protection of mills and small hydroelectricity, will be voted during the month of June in the Senate and then in the Assembly. They brutally call into question more than 25 years of national efforts and investments to give back to […]
PHOTO / The reservoir on May 8 2020, showing the emptied reservoir and the extent of the flood water across Uzbek-Kazakh border [image by: Lauren Dauphin/NASA Earth Observatory] A year after Sardoba dam collapse secrecy prevails: All we know – the catfish and rodents not guilty! article from coalition Rivers Without Boundaries A year passed […]
This year, Dam Removal Europe International Seminar is being organized by WWF (Germany, Austria and Switzerland), Dam Removal Europe partners, and in cooperation with regional and international partners. It will take place online from 4 to 7 May 2021 (every afternoon from 2 to 5 p.m. Central European Time). May 4, 2021: What is on stake? […]
The River Basin Management Plans (RBMPs) 2022-27 subject to public consultation The River Basin Management Plans (RBMPs) are currently being revised in the European Union, according to the schedule set by the European Framework Directive. The new management plans will then come into force from 2022 to 2027, which will be the 3rd cycle of […]
A report released on 19 April 2021 by WWF shows that 935 river obstacles present a strong potential for removal in France. The study demonstrates the massive potential of barrier removal to restore free-flowing rivers in Europe. The report ‘The potential of barrier removal to reconnect Europe’s rivers’ analyses a sample of 30,000 barriers on […]
Photo: Prince Philip visiting the Bec d’Allier, in 1988. Copyright Pierre Jeannin In 1988, a formula which will make date : ” Vive la Loire Sauvage “ Many people have learned, on April 9th, the death of Prince Philip, husband of the Queen of England, Elizabeth II. But fewer remember the important role he played […]
The French Office of Biodiversity has just published and put online a booklet (in french only) entitled “When rivers take their course again – Notes on the removal of dams and weirs, on the Sélune and elsewhere”. This booklet presents the synthesis of the international symposium organized from 24 to 26 September 2019 by European […]
The work of the New Poutès on the Allier river has recently been highlighted in the french national medias. At first, an article, by Martine Valo, was published in the famous daily newspaper Le Monde on 25/02/2021, entitled “Le barrage de Poutès s’ouvre pour laisser filer vers l’Atlantique les saumons sauvages de l’Allier”. >> See […]
SHEMA (a subsidiary of EDF) plans to install and operate a hydroelectric power station on the Allier on the left bank of the Vichy dam-bridge. The project, still little known by the citizens, is sensitive because it will impact the Loire and Allier, a major axis of migration of the Salmon whose protection is at […]
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