« In the Alps, hydropower is the first renewable energy source. But its ecological impacts threaten the water quality. The SHARE project (Sustainable Hydropower in Alpine Rivers Ecosystems) offers a decision support system tool, the multi criteria analysis, which to merge, on an unprejudiced base, these opposite needs."
explains a responsible from GERES, Renewable energies, Environnement and Solidarity Group. The association presents its solution on 16 March at the 6th World Water Forum. A tool born out of the cooperation between 13 Alpine organisations and financed by the European Union.