The Institute's lines of research are always directly related to water. Some of them are listed below:
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Water quality (physics, chemistry, microbiology, parasitology, biology, etc.)
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Health issues related to water resources
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Unconventional water resources
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Natural mineral water
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Advanced wastewater treatment
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Aerobic and anaerobic digestion systems in wastewater and sludge
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Microbial Source Tracking
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Biofilms in water
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River and reservoir ecology
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Eutrophic systems
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Cyanobacteria and aquatic microalgae
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Biodiversity of freshwater algae
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Agronomy and improving crop yields for increased efficiency in water use
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Methods for the use of water resources: geological, geochemical and geophysical
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Seawater: properties, dynamics and behavior
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Oceanography
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Modelling contaminated aquifers: salt intrusion and industrial or agricultural pollution
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Legislation affecting water: legal regime pertaining to water quality and dumping
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Economic instruments of environmental policy and water demand management
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Climate change: variability and associated risk
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Climatology: urban, synoptic, historic and agricultural
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Climatic atlas and precipitation analysis
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Analysis of hydrometeorological risks and of the related communication and social aspects
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History of the use and management of water resources
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Socioeconomic and political repercussions of variations in the availability of water
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Waterscapes: archaeological, cultural and scenic heritage
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Water Archaeology, past human-water relationships
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Landscape, visual poetics and water aesthetics