What are the Midis du Green Office?

A series of conferences on sustainable development specially designed for the student public but also for the entire ULiège community.

Water, a precious resource : what challenges for a sustainable management ?

Summary

Based on an international context (European constraints, economic and climatic issues, etc.), Jean-François Deliege will unfold a red thread allowing to draw a holistic vision and a strategy for water resources management in terms of quantity and quality. Throughout the presentation, examples of examples of projects carried out (or being carried out) on a national or international scale will provide concrete concrete support for his remarksthe presentation will focus on some projects resulting from recent R&D applications based on the development of partnerships and on the use of digital tools that are increasingly operational, for the benefit of management administrations and therefore indirectly of citizens.

Since the 1950s, fresh waters, receptacles of the majority of pollutants emitted on the continents, have been paying the price of the inventiveness of the chemical industry and of the load of various pollutants linked in particular to socio-economic developments. What kind of life for the organisms forced to (over) live in these waters? Is it possible to reconcile anthropic activities and preservation of our rivers and lakes? Answers focused on the case of Wallonia will be presented in order to give reasons to hope (or not) for the future of our rivers

Speakers

Jean-François Deliege : Director of Aquapôle at the University of Liege

Célia Joaquim-Justo: Working for more than 30 years in the laboratory of animal ecology and ecotoxicology at ULiège, which I have been directing since 2017, I have devoted myself to the study of the contamination of ecosystems by micropollutants on the one hand, and on the other hand, to the investigation of their impacts on freshwater invertebrates, fascinating organisms whose biology and ecology I have been able to study over the years. We also seek to develop biomolecular tools to understand the mechanisms of action of pollutants including endocrine disruptors and to develop tools for early detection of this type of pollutants in freshwater.