As part of the European Union’s Green Week event in Brussels, Euronews science correspondent Jeremy Wilks quizzes experts about water pollution, droughts, and floods, asking when we will wise up about water. Here’s everything you need to know ahead of the discussion on 29 May.
Now more than ever, water is on everyone’s minds. Whether it’s pollution, floods, droughts or climate change, there are myriad issues around H2O causing concern for many of us. Enter our upcoming live Euronews Water Resilience Debate, where we’ll be asking how exactly we can all wise up about water.
Presented from the European Union’s Green Week event in Brussels, with our science correspondent Jeremy Wilks at the helm, we’ll be putting questions from the audience to a panel of three experts. We’ll be debating issues including water quality in urban areas, tensions with agriculture and industry, recycling, regeneration and desalination of water, nature-based solutions for rivers and waterways – as well as the security of supply for every European.
Kicking off at 10am CET on 29 May, here’s everything you need to know ahead of the event – and how you too can get informed about one of the most pressing issues we’re currently facing.
Meet the Experts
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Florika Fink-Hooijer
, Director-General of the Environment Department of the European Commission–
Henk Ovink
, Executive Director and founding Commissioner for the Global Commission on the Economics of Water–
Arnaud Valleteau de Moulliac
, CEO of Veolia Water TechnologiesKey Debate Topics
– Water pollution and its impact on health
– Innovative solutions for water treatment and purification
– Nature-based solutions to mitigate floods and droughts
– Competing water demands from agriculture, industry, and domestic use
– Water security and the role of business
Audience Participation
As an open discussion, we’ll be taking questions from audience members, who come from both ordinary backgrounds and roles within the world of water. Expect questions – and answers – to some of the most discussed topics across Europe on water issues.
Have you ever thought about who exactly plans and ensures the cross-border cooperation for provision of firefighting water or why cities – think Paris ahead of the Olympics – seem to need a particular impetus before they start investing ambitiously in water quality and flood prevention? Those questions will be on our agenda, alongside whether the EU can back up its claims that it’s a champion of water resilience, if it can achieve its climate targets by 2030 and if rivers, seas and oceans need to be given specific legal status to ensure this policy’s success.
Tune in to get all the answers you’re after on Wednesday, 29 May at 10am CET here.
