The LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 project has presented its experiences of river restoration and adaptation to floods in the middle Ebro river at the Green Week, the European Commission’s Green Week, held in Brussels and dedicated this 2024 edition to water resilience for the whole of the European Union (
Towards a water resilient Europe
).
For the entire Ebro Resilience P1 technical team it is very important to have participated in this forum dedicated annually to publicize and promote European environmental policies, generating debate and analysis around them.
One of the objectives for which the LIFE Program approved European funding for the Ebro Resilience project was the future replication of the measures implemented in the Ebro in other Spanish and European basins, hence the crucial importance of being present at events of this magnitude.
The application of nature-based solutions for natural water retention, pilot proposals to adapt agricultural areas to flooding, coordination and administrative cooperation, and the commitment to effective and real participation, were the topics discussed by the administrative coordinator of the Project, Eduardo Murillo, from the public company TRAGSATEC, in the morning session on May 30 dedicated to “Restoration and protection of an affected water cycle”.
In addition, technicians from other partners, the Ebro Hydrographic Confederation (CHE), the Government of La Rioja, the Environmental Management of Navarra (GAN-NIK) and the Aragonese Water Institute, presented a technical poster reviewing the actions of the LIFE Project in the middle stretch of the Ebro and answered queries at the specific stand of the European Executive Agency for Climate, Infrastructure and Environment (CINEA) .
Green Week theme
The European Commission has selected this theme in 2024 as “in recent years, citizens in different parts of the continent have faced an increase in natural disasters, such as droughts and floods, which have further aggravated the EU’s water challenges.”
Furthermore, the European Union states that the pressures on water resources are not only due to the impacts of climate change, “but also mainly to decades of structural mismanagement of this precious resource and to the pollution and degradation of ecosystems” .
The LIFE Ebro Resilience P1 project, which just last week received the annual visit of the monitor of the ELMEN consultancyBorja Domínguez, as representative of the tutors of the European Union’s LIFE program to carry out a general review of the project, is focused on these actions for adaptation to extreme events.