Overview — Sustainable water management sits at the heart of climate resilience, yet faces intensifying pressures: over-extraction, water-quality degradation, biodiversity loss, and socio-economic inequities. Traditional, monosectoral approaches no longer suffice. At EGU 2026, this session spotlights integrated pathways for fairer water governance from catchments to policy.

Interdisciplinary scientists from France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, and Türkiye gathered in Magdeburg for the Mediterranean Water Management Workshop, a two-day event dedicated to tackling “The Mediterranean Paradox” — a region simultaneously facing severe water stress and standing at the forefront of water management innovation.

The OurMED Summer School on “Participatory Processes and Environmental Conflict Mediation in Social-Ecological Systems” took place this week in Arborea, Sardinia, one of the project’s demonstration sites. The event gathered project partners and participants from related initiatives such as NextGen4MED, to exchange knowledge and experiences on sustainability challenges in the Mediterranean.

On 8 September 2025, at the Giornate dell’idrologia 2025 of the Italian Hydrological Society at Politecnico di Bari, our project partner University of Parma presented the latest results of the OurMED project, funded by the PRIMA programme.

On 9 August 2025, the Fourth Meeting of the Mujib Basin National Committee was held at the Landmark Hotel in Amman, gathering representatives from the Ministry of Water and Irrigation, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Municipalities, the Jordan Valley Authority, Mutah University, the Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature, and various experts and stakeholders in the water sector.

From July 23 to 26, 2025, Living Planet Morocco represented the OurMED project at the Ifrane International Festival, one of Morocco's major cultural and environmental events. This was an opportunity to raise awareness among a wide audience about nature conservation, sustainable water management, and ecosystem protection.