World Water Day: a collective opinion piece in Le Monde
Verdeo co-signs an opinion piece with 50 researchers, hydrologists, agronomists and lawyers, on the eve of the municipal elections.
Verdeo co-signs an opinion piece with 50 researchers, hydrologists, agronomists and lawyers, on the eve of the municipal elections.
22 March 2026 is both the eve of the municipal elections and World Water Day. A coincidence of the calendar that says everything about the urgency.
Verdeo is a co-signatory of a joint opinion piece published in Le Monde, at the initiative of Charlène Descollonges and Pour une Hydrologie Régénérative, alongside 50 researchers, hydrologists, agronomists, lawyers and committed citizens.
Among the co-signatories: Jean Launay, board member of the Adour-Garonne basin committee, and Fabien Balaguer, executive director of the Association française d'agroforesterie, both members of Verdeo's Strategic Advisory Board.
The findings leave no room for doubt. Western Europe is one of the four mega-regions in the world that are drying out. The United Nations now speaks of global water bankruptcy. Conflicts over water use are inevitable.
Water is a common good, and it is a municipal matter before it is a national one. The findings are there, and so are the solutions. They still have to be measured, traced and funded.
That is precisely why Verdeo exists.
Mobilising private funding for water. We work with the Agence de l'eau Adour-Garonne (river basin water agency) to structure and trace payment for environmental services projects around catchment areas, and to show private investors that these agricultural preservation projects deserve their trust and their capital.
Reporting at the scale of a territory. With the Préfecture des Pyrénées-Orientales (the French State's representative in the department), Verdeo reports the actions of the department's water resilience plan: volumes, network efficiency, wastewater reuse, regenerative hydrology, dynamic management of the resource. A single dashboard, from the syndicate to the municipality and up to the préfecture.
Being the catalyst for impact solutions. Verdeo is not one solution among others. It is the tool that brings hydraulic, agronomic and social solutions into synergy by giving value to their results, and that builds trust between project owners and funders.
Water is one of the municipal emergencies.