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Europe's water utilities are investing 16% more than a year ago, but EurEau's latest figures show that construction inflation absorbed most of the increase and that pipe renewal has not sped up.
The World Meteorological Organization reports that river flows in 2025 were among the lowest in 35 years, with Central and Eastern Europe among the hardest-hit regions as groundwater declines year after year.
Satellite gravity data show that the snow-fed Upper Colorado River Basin lost more groundwater in the latest drought than the drier Lower Basin – a warning about what surface monitoring misses.
Two new industry documents – the IGU's 2026 assessment and the Joint Biomethane Declaration – agree: biomethane is Europe's only immediate, scalable domestic alternative to imported gas.