On Tuesday, November 3, 2026, the partners of the TARGET project —Territorial Strategy for Water Scarcity— invite you to meet them at the Hôtel du Département de la Gironde in Bordeaux for a dissemination seminar presenting the project’s results, entitled “Unconventional Water Resources in the Face of Water Scarcity: From Strategy to Action.”
This event, open to all, will bring together local and regional authorities, government services, funding agencies, businesses, experts, and researchers. It will address the topic of unconventional water (collective and industrial treated wastewater, rainwater harvesting, process water) as a key leverage point against dwindling water resources, examining the technical and socioeconomic challenges that characterize them.
Provisional Program:
9:00 AM – Welcome Coffee – Poster Session
9:30 AM – Opening – Plenary Session
- Representatives from the Gironde Department, EPIDOR, CEREMA, the Joint Secretariat of the European Interreg SUDOE Programme and the Adour-Garonne Water Agency
10:00 AM – Project Results – Plenary Session
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10.00 am – The TARGET Strategy: an approach to planning in the face of shortages
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Water governance and scarcity in south-western Europe: France, Spain and Portugal – a shared context and varied strategies – AMAYA, the Andalusian Environment and Water Agency
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The TARGET Strategy: a planning method – EPIDOR, Public Territorial Authority for the Dordogne Basin Catchment Area
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10.15 am – Three case studies
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Towards a plan to prevent water shortages through the use of unconventional water sources in the Dordogne catchment area (France): prioritising sectors, sources and uses – EPIDOR, Public Territorial Authority for the Dordogne Catchment Area
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A three-pronged action plan to reduce the vulnerability of the drinking water supply in Barreiro (Portugal): crisis management planning, looking to the future and diversifying water resources – Municipality of Barreiro
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The local circular water programme in Granollers (Spain): optimising the REUSE system and scaling up after 20 years of experience – Granollers Town Council
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- 10.45 am – Break – Posters – Group photo
- 11.00 am – Lessons learnt from the TARGET project in addressing the challenges of using unconventional water resources
- Technical challenges:
- Detecting and treating pesticides in treated wastewater – Faculty of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon
- Technical approaches for the safe and reproducible reuse of water: from continuous monitoring to decision-support tools – Polytechnic University of Catalonia
- Mapping and quantifying unconventional water resources – ECOFILAE
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- Socioeconomic challenges:
- A comparative analysis of risk perception and social acceptability of treated wastewater reuse in France, Spain and Portugal: identifying psychosocial barriers – Complutense University of Madrid
- The externalities of treated wastewater reuse projects and methods
for their assessment – Complutense University of Madrid - Economic model: what avenues for innovation in the reuse of treated wastewater – CEREMA
- Socioeconomic challenges:
12.30 PM – Complimentary Lunch – Poster Session
1.30 PM – 3.00 PM – Collaborative Workshop: “REUT: Opportunity or Feasibility?”
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1.30 PM – Case studies:
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The Grand Périgueux Agglomeration Community
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The Libourne Urban Community
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2.00 PM – Group work
3.00 PM – 3.45 PM: Outlook and promotion of the project – Plenary session
- 3.00 pm – 3.30 pm: What are the benefits of the TARGET project for …
- The Adour-Garonne Water Agency
- The Portuguese Environment Agency
- The Besòs and Tordera Basins Consortium
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3:30 PM – 3.45 PM – Project deliverables and next steps
- EPIDOR
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3:45 PM – Closing
Registration (free) before October 22, 2026: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=KstHjFb48kaDsc8ctKAgtSXnC9t5MENIggdkhw–AQpUNVpNNzJaQjIxTTFUTDNWNzRLVURRUzNINS4u
Schedule in PDF: Programme_seminaire English
TARGET is a project co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) under the Interreg Sudoe 2021–2027 program.