Waste Oils and Biodiesel: A Cycle Worth Exploiting
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano In Italy, the National Consortium for the Collection and Treatment of Used Oils and Fats (CONOE) i...
Cheese Whey for Circular Groundwater Remediation
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano In early June, the Umbria region and ARPA Umbria, along with Ramboll Italy and the Grifo Agroalime...
Not just microplastics: mineral water may also contain PFAS
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano ‘Mineral’ does not necessarily mean pure. In recent years, there has been much talk ab...
Drought: Here are the Global Hotspots. No Country is Safe
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano “No country is immune to drought and we need to be prepared.” Daniel Tsegai, Program O...
Miteni PFAS Trial: Historic Ruling Condemns 11 Former Executives
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano After four years of deliberation, 130 hearings, approximately 300 civil parties involved, and an i...
How CO₂ storage at sea works
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Roughly half of the oxygen we breathe comes from the oceans, which also serve as the planet’...
Circular economy of rice: less emissions and more community resilience
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Rice is among the world’s most important crops. A food staple at the center of centuries-old...
ECESP annual conference 2025: what does a competitive circular economy mean?
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Bruxelles - “Circularity is more than a plan: it's a destination. The EU stands wi...
Codognola (Itelyum): “EU should introduce single energy price for strategic projects”
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano There is no point in denying the evidence. The Green Deal was losing its appeal, caught between po...
Water Resilience Strategy EU: grand promises, no obligations
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Bruxelles - A 10% water efficiency target by 2030, but it’s not binding. No new legisla...
The US closes its climate disaster database and enters hurricane season unprepared
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Would you turn off your thermometer in the middle of a fever? That is what is happening in the Uni...
A decade of hydropower in the Balkans
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano There are currently 3,188 planned hydropower projects across the Balkans, with around a hundred un...
Wastewater Directive: the race for circular biorefineries is on
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The revision of the EU Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive (2024/3019) sets increasingly ambitiou...
Latin America’s largest solar power plant with battery storage inaugurated in Chile
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano There is a place in Chile’s Atacama Desert where the power of the sun never seems to set. It...
Aquatech 2025, Hardeman: “The scale of water challenges is underestimated”
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Amsterdam – In early March, water and technology took centre stage as Aquatech 2025 transfor...
India-Bangladesh dispute over the Teesta River. Menga: a crisis for international law
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Last February, Bangladesh saw protests over a long-standing dispute with India over the exploitati...
Omnibus Package: does the EU still have sufficient power to enforce its vision?
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano On the 26th of February, the European Commission will unveil the much-debated Omnibus Package, an ...
Green Deal, where are we at? The JRC study
This article is also available in Italian / questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Since EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled the Competitiveness Compass, discussio...
CBAM, Commissioner Hoekstra announces exemptions for 80% of EU companies
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Following the increasingly probable step back of the Omnibus package on CSRD, CSDDD, and the Taxon...
PFAS: Trump blocks proposal to limit industrial wastewater
This article is part of our thematic channel The Water Observer. Click here to subscribe to our newsletter and receive exclusive contents from the world of water With the administration change at t...