Benoît Roig, president of the University of Nîmes, guest of France Bleu Gard Lozère on the occasion of World Water Day.
Since 1993, March 22 has been World Water Day.
Initiated by the UN to raise public awareness of social and scientific issues around water, it supports the achievement of one of the organization’s sustainable development objectives: access for all to drinking water and sanitation. sanitation by 2030. This year, groundwater was chosen as the theme. Invisible to our eyes, these waters have a visible influence everywhere. They make up almost all of the planet’s freshwater reserves, and provide much of the water we use for drinking, sanitation, food production and industrial processes, in addition to playing a essential for the proper functioning of ecosystems.
The University of Nîmes is particularly involved in issues related to water
Water is at the heart of the work of several researchers from the young Nîmes university. The CHROME research team, for example, works on emerging chronic risks and carries out projects, which focus on the study of the functioning of water tables and the influence of pollutants on the quality of groundwater.
Visit the U-Nîmes web-tv
On Tuesday March 22 at 5:15 p.m., find the University of Nîmes on its Twitch channel UNIMES_WEBTV for a live broadcast with Corinne Le Gal La Salle, professor in hydrogeochemistry, Somar Khaska, lecturer in isotopic geochemistry, and Antoine Bonnière, doctoral student in hydrogeochemistry, which will focus on groundwater.