Sustainable Development Goal 6: Clear Water and Sanitation

Ensuring universal and equitable access to affordable drinking water by 2030 requires investing in adequate infrastructure, providing sanitation facilities, and promoting hygiene at all levels.

Protecting and restoring water-related ecosystems is essential to prevent the scarcity of this vital resource. These issues are central to research at INSA, addressing the energy, environmental, and ecological transition—a pillar of INSA Lyon's "Ambitions 2030" strategy.

The INSA Lyon Experimental Eco-Campus project won the 2020 Sustainable Campus Award for wastewater and stormwater management on the university campus. This project is justified by the prominent presence of water in the area: natural water, such as that of the Rhône River in Feyssine Park, groundwater beneath the campus, and “urbanized” water due to the proximity of Lyon’s main drinking water catchment area and the Feyssine wastewater treatment plant.

Discover the Eco-Campus project

The DEEP laboratory (Waste, Water, Pollution, and Environment) initiated the creation of an urban hydrology field observatory at the metropolitan level and has numerous international collaborations on this topic. Its 30+ years of expertise are recognized by the international Novatech conference on responsible stormwater management, which INSA Lyon hosts every three years.

INSA Lyon recognizes the importance of raising community awareness of water management on campus, offering various activities, debates, and events around this topic.

Guided Eco-Campus tour on water management

In September 2024, INSA Lyon launched its media platform, Point de Bascule, with the aim of providing minimalist content that encourages reflection and deepens understanding of societal issues. Facing socio-ecological challenges that question our lifestyles, citizens, engineers, and researchers feel the need to open debates, better understand these issues, and stimulate reflection. This platform invites a shift in perspective and imagines new possibilities.

Follow updates on Sustainable Development Goal 6: "Clean Water and Sanitation" on Point de Bascule

INSA Lyon’s urban stormwater management research projects:

- OMEGA ECO CAMPUS Project (Methodological Tool for Integrated Management of an Urban Drainage System and Urban Water Management System): Part of an ANR project labeled by IMU, this project focuses on assessing the local services provided by urban drainage systems, using the LyonTech-la Doua campus as a case study.

- MICROMEGAS Project: Supported by ONEMA, MICROMEGAS aims to study the role of alternative techniques in managing micropollutants in urban stormwater runoff.

- URBIEAU Project: This project assesses the relevance of the functions most frequently attributed to green spaces using methods from three disciplines: user-serving functions through management actors, hydrological service function, and biodiversity support function.

- Ecomagnet’Eau Project: Funded by the Rovaltain Foundation, ECOMAGNET’EAU is a collaboration between the DEEP laboratory and TREE WATER.