Lines of research

The Institute's lines of research are always directly related to water. Some of them are listed below:

• Water quality (physics, chemistry, biology, parasitology, etc.)

• Health issues related to water resources

• Unconventional water resources

• River and reservoir ecology

• Eutrophic systems

• Legislation affecting water: legal regime pertaining to water quality and dumping

• Economic instruments of environmental policy and water demand management

• Natural mineral water

• Biofilms in water

• Cyanobacteria and aquatic microalgae

• Biodiversity of freshwater algae

• Advanced wastewater treatment

• Aerobic and anaerobic digestion systems in wastewater and sludge

• Climate change: variability and associated risk

• Climatology: urban, synoptic, historic and agricultural.

• Climatic atlas and precipitation analysis

• Methods for the use of water resources: geological, geochemical and geophysical

• Modelling contaminated aquifers: salt intrusion and industrial or agricultural pollution

• Agronomy and improving crop yields for increased efficiency in water use

• History of the use and management of water resources

• Socioeconomic and political repercussions of variations in the avaibility of water

• Waterscapes: archaeological, cultural and scenic heritage

• Analysis of hydrometeorological risks and of the related communication and social aspects

• Waterscapes, visual and aesthetic poetic's water