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The story of water in fashion is one few people know in detail but it affects everyone. From cotton plantations requiring millions of liters to grow, to factories where colors and textures are fixed into fabric using tons of water, the textile industry is one of the world’s largest water consumers.

The textile industry uses a wide variety of fabrics, both natural and synthetic, to manufacture garments for different uses and climates. However, the blending of multiple fibers in a single garment presents a significant recycling challenge. The difficulty lies in separating and reprocessing these components to reuse them in new yarns and fabrics. Recently, new technologies based on artificial intelligence are revolutionizing this process, such as the solutions developed by coleo.es that enable the creation of recycled yarns with diverse compositions.

The textile industry generates millions of tons of waste every year, much of it incinerated or landfilled. Manual sorting is slow, costly, and cannot manage the complexity of today’s clothing materials.

Imagine being able to visualize, analyze, and modify your agricultural irrigation system without leaving your computer. Adjust the flow of the drippers, simulate drought conditions, compare alternatives to save water, or anticipate the impact of a breakdown… All in real-time, all connected to the plot, the climate, and the soil. This is no longer science fiction: it is the new reality of applied agriculture thanks to “digital twins.”

In southern Europe, water is both a treasure and a challenge. Often, the rain does not come when needed most, and climate change seems to pummel the crops. On any given morning in Andalusia, Portugal, or southwestern France, a farmer looks at the sky hoping for signs, while the indicators on their phone remind them that the future of water and agriculture is no longer above, but on the ground… and in the data.