New solutions to global lack of clean water

Efficient handling of extreme precipitation, treatment of water from agricultural fields, reclaimed water for food production, new irrigation technologies and forests giving us more water.

 

These are just a few of the solutions which LIFE’s elite research area ‘Water resources in biological production’ is focusing on. The need for water increases concurrently with a growing world population and rising food production, while pollution and climate change reduce the amount of water available.

 

Anchorman for LIFE’s elite research area area ‘Water resources in biological production’:

Professor Hans Chr. Bruun Hansen answers seven key questions.

 

Read the answers and more about the elite research area. 

 

Read about LIFE's eight elite research areas and six emerging elite research areas.