Interview of Laurent Chabert d’Hieres, Director of Eau Vive

20 actors of the solidarity and development field participated in the reflexion conference on the NGOs-Firms partnership organized by the societal engineering team on April the 16th. The goal of this conference was to conduct a collective reflection the existing NGOs-Firms partnerships and to establish principles ensuring their efficiency and the respect of everyone’s values and interests.
In the discussions, Laurent Chabert d’Hières particularly focused on the various dimensions of these partnerships: beyond concrete development projects, the relationships between NGOs and firms are also subject to confrontations between social, political and environmental values.

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Overcoming the psychological barriers linked to the re-use of wastewater

Due to the increasing pressure caused by economic and demographic expansion on water resources, increasing numbers of regions are recycling their wastewater. Recycling wastewater, however, comes up against consumer reticence, often referred as the “yuck factor”.

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