Big data

The increasing pollution in water environments has harmful, even dangerous, effects on health, security, well-being, on any use whatsoever of the water, as well as on the environment. Technological innovation provides tools to combat this phenomenon through an analysis of environments, the identification of microorganisms but also through the monitoring of plankton. See other innovations.

Alexandre Liccardi, Digital innovation and Big data Head of mission within the French Agency for Biodiversity (AFB) and Raouf Gnouma, director of the Water activity within environmental engineering consultancy BURGEAP; take a close look at three such initiatives.