The exhibition When the river recovers its space closes its first meeting with the public after its premiere at the Water and Environment Documentation Center of Zaragoza during the month of February. The LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 Project, in collaboration with the Green Library of the Zaragoza City Council, organized this exhibition to disseminate information about nature-based solutions to floods.
In addition, it has served as a meeting point to discuss this extreme phenomenon and its effects, by attracting a large audience to two activities organized around this collection of photos, the talk held on February 18, aimed at the general public, and the guided tour for the sector of communicators and journalists on February 20.
From now on, the exhibition becomes itinerant and its next stop will be the space of La Alfranca, of the Government of Aragon.
Content
Through 25 snapshots, provided by the Ebro Hydrographic Confederation for LIFE Ebro Resilience P1, three information panels, and an audiovisual viewing point, five thematic areas related to the actions of the Project are shown:
- Meanders that become part of the river again.
- Remaining a riparian: adaptation is possible
- Types of intervention
- Restoring ecosystems and fighting against floods
- Real and effective participation
The panels provide general and contextual information on the interventions, an example of an intervention in the La Roza meander and the benefit of wetlands as a natural water retention measure.
Balance of activities
Along with the interest aroused by the exhibition, we are grateful for the interest aroused by the parallel activities organized.
On February 18, 60 people attended the informative talk and guided tour for the general public. There they talked about the concept of flood risk, the types of intervention and the actions being developed in the middle stretch of the Ebro.
As part of the social capacity building campaigns, a group of journalists from Aragon participated in a specific visit to the communication sector to explain concepts, the state of the art and current interventions, with special interest in the one being carried out in the Osera de Ebro-Fuentes de Ebro section.
