Water Crisis: Global Issues and Local Challenges

Today, more than ever, water is a universal and complex issue. Its importance will only grow in the coming years, amplified by climate change, population growth, and rapid urbanization. These factors are likely to lead to risks, disasters, economic and social difficulties, as well as tensions and conflicts across the globe. How, then, can we respond to these multiple crises? The answers and solutions are, first and foremost, local. They require us to rethink certain elements and foundations of how our human societies function.

Eric SERVAT is director of the UNESCO International Center for Water Research “ICIREWARD – Montpellier,” a research director at IRD, and an associate professor at the University of Montpellier.

The conference is organized by the Montpellier- Research al Environmental Observatory (OREME) and is part of the Academic Year of Geosciences.