Carnot Eau & Environnement

3 Issues

• Preserve water and aquatic media quality
• Give an access to water consistent with uses
• Protect the population 

4 strategic research areas:

Water quality monitoring strategies and methods including innovative sensors and biosensors to characterize, identify, and monitor the pollution sources

Water work and networks, hydraulic infrastructures: Sizing, reliability, sustainability and optimization of the performance of waste water treatment plants, sanitation networks, drinking water, rainwater treatment plants, "green" infrastructures

Natural hazards management: forecast, zoning, alert, impacts, applied to floods, drought, avalanches

New water resources: techniques, safety, impacts, reuse of wastewater and rainwater, groundwater recharge, storage and optimization of consumption

Developing innovative water and aquatic environments management solutions within territories:

• Decision-making tools
• Numerical models and tools
• Nature based solutions
• Metrological devices, bio indication 

The Carnot provides skills and resources to ensure research continuity from TRL 1 to 6 and to support the companies in the operational implementation phases of the developed solutions.

Target markets : 

• Hydraulic infrastructure
• Water and Environment engineering
• Equipment suppliers
• Industrial water users
• Agriculture

Skills applied to continental, groundwater, coastal waters:

• Hydrobiology, hydrology, hydro ecology, ecotoxicology
• Hydraulics, fluid mechanics, geo mechanics
• Soil sciences, agronomy, agro ecology
• Process Engineering
• Information and communication technology, mathematics, geomatics
• Sociology, geography, Economy
• Metrology, LCA

Platforms and observatories:

• La Feyssine, Centre d’experimentation Roger Ben Aïm: wastewater and drinking water treatment
• Geomechanics: soils, dikes, dams
• Chemical analysis, microbiological, ecotoxicology platforms
• Instrumented observatories: in urban, rural, agricultural, mountain areas, on rivers