Carrefour des Gestions Locales de l'Eau 2027

The Carrefour des Gestions Locales de l'Eau is France's leading meeting point for local water management, held each January at Rennes Parc Expo. Elected officials, local authority and utility staff, engineering firms and suppliers gather for two days of exhibition and conferences on drinking water, wastewater, stormwater and the wider water cycle, organised by idealCO with the Brittany Region and the Loire-Bretagne Water Agency as partners.

Conference themes

The programme is organised into four thematic areas, with a new hall dedicated to AI, data and digital tools and a start-up area.

• Governance, territory and management: law, finance, procurement, elected officials
• Water cycle: quality and health, quantity, stormwater, GEMAPI, sea and coast
• Technical, works and operations: wastewater, drinking water, networks, metrology
• Climate change adaptation: agriculture, sobriety, nature-based solutions

Key figures

The organiser cites around 20,000 participants, 700 exhibitors, 240 conferences and more than 30,000 m² of exhibition space.