The Decree of the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security (MASE) of December 24, 2025, regarding the distribution methods of the "Fund for the Financing of Interventions in the Purification and Reuse of Refined Waters" was published in the Official Journal on February 16, 2026.
The new NEOFOS project: an industrial research and experimental development initiative, funded by MASE, for the recovery of phosphorus from wastewater, with the participation of Gruppo CAP, MM Spa, the Polytechnic University of Milan, and the University of Bologna.
The United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) has released the report "Global Water Bankruptcy": in which it states that the world has already officially entered the era of water bankruptcy.
The allocation of essential resources to be allocated to interventions for the management of the drought-related water emergency in the metropolitan city of Reggio Calabria has been formalized.