Since 1998, work and research has been carried out on numerous topics, generating and sharing knowledge. These works have the aim of contributing knowledge to the debates on water management in Spain and the world.
Research Topics
Water footprint and environmental sustainability related to food consumption and agricultural production
Sustainable consumption and production is one of the main challenges for humanity and an important part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development of the United Nations.
Improvement of the environmental quality of the waters
The achievement of the good status of rivers includes both having adequate liquid and solid (sediments) flows to maintain aquatic ecosystems and good water quality.
Ethics of water and transparency of information
The relevance of ethical issues in water policy has always been present in the activities of the WO. For instance, a chapter is devoted to the topic in the book of Llamas and Hernández-Mora (2001).
Bringing society closer to sustainable water management
The Water Observatory has always tried to disseminate innovative advances on the water management problems.
Challenges and paradigms in water management
The numerous works in relation to the Spanish situation show that the widespread idea of water scarcity in Spain is to a large extent an obsolete hydromyth.
Groundwater
The Water Observatory analyses groundwater from an inter and multidisciplinary perspective, looking primarily, not at the classical hydrogeology and groundwater hydrology, but giving great weight to economic, environmental, legal and social aspects.
Water-energy nexus
Water, energy and land, which are increasingly under pressure, are fundamental to human development and wellbeing.
