Launched in 2020, Agro&Aigua is an initiative led by Agri Sud-Ouest Innovation with the Catalan Water Partnership, BiolB and the Agricultural Cooperation, and with the financial support of the Pyrénées-Méditerranée Euroregion. The Agro&Aigua initiative aimed to develop networking and knowledge-sharing between France and Spain on the questions of water management in agriculture or in the food industry. Agro y Aigua ended with 10 topics of innovation for the year 2022. Still very topical today!
- Design and deploy multi-scale water monitoring systems at regional level,
- Incentivise new agriculture practices, such as regenerative agriculture, in favour of soil retention in soil,
- Deploy groundwater recharge pilot sites,
- Encourage the creation of small-scale hillside reservoirs for temporary water storage,
- Monitor water quality with continuous monitoring,
- Prevent the development of invasive species in irrigation networks,
- Deploy water reuse demonstrators for industrial situations not yet covered,
- Develop an integrated food-energy-water approach on a local and territorial scale, using LCA,
- Pursue the digital transformation of water management systems to achieve precise control and save water and energy,
- Use irrigation systems to position biocontrol and biosolutions.
