Humans and Water: The Human Impact on Water Management and Pollution 

Our planet’s vital water resources are severely affected by climate change and pollution caused by human activities. This is leading us down a disastrous one-way path unless we take swift action involving stakeholders from various fields and at all levels.

This symposium highlights the significant environmental impacts of human activities on water resources: from how we manage this resource to how we can control its pollution and contamination by plastics, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (forever chemicals), as well as heavy metals and organic pollutants.

Understanding the life cycle of these pollutants—from their production to their dispersion in the environment—and their impacts on biodiversity is therefore a major challenge in terms of both scientific knowledge and regulation.