RIVERS-REST

RIVERS-REST responds to the urgent need to reduce the pollution and excess of fine sediments that rivers carry into the Atlantic Ocean, with serious effects on the environment, the functionality and sustainability of the water system, and many sectors of the Blue Economy. The origin lies in the denaturation of the rivers by urban and hydraulic policies, drafted against nature and not valid anymore in a context of Climate Change, and also in outdated agricultural practices and water policies.

RIVERS-REST addresses these problems through Pilots to test new technical and governance solutions to reduce sediment and chemical pollutants runoff into rivers, estuaries and to the Atlantic, implement Nature restoration initiatives testing new approaches and techniques, plus joint development of planning methods and instruments capable of correcting these problems.