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THE ROLE OF GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS
Eric SoubeiranGlobal Nature & Climate Director
29 August 2017
Terragr’Eau, a collective methanizer to protect the watershed and foster the sustainability of local farming
Protecting the water resource, a priority
41 farmers, 16 towns and the company EVIAN joined forces and work hands in hands to find solutions to the challenges met by the territory since 1992
Their common objectives are to:
• Preserve the Evian natural mineral water and the drinking water consumed by over 10,000 residents
• Protect 1,300 direct jobs that cannot be performed elsewhere and several hundred indirect jobs
• Allow the production of 1.6 billion bottles of Evian every year, i.e. 7 million per day.
How it works ?
1) Maintaining farming on the impluvium
To guarantee the infiltration surfaces needed
to refill the evian spring
2) Managing risks of nitrate pollution from
fertilizers
By improving crops and grasslands
fertilization practices
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2 main outcomes
And international recognition
Evian® water catchment area certified as a Ramsar Site (“Impluvium d'Evian” Site no. 1833).
The first natural spring water infiltration zone recognized as a wetland of international importance.
Soon to come: