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“No water, no life. No blue, no green.”
Sylvia Earle
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“On the cosmic scale, liquid water is rarer than gold.”
Hubert Reeves
Activities
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Hydrogeological studies
By analyzing the presence and extent of natural or human-induced pollutants, INTERFACE-EAU helps you take corrective measures to repair dysfunctional boreholes and design future boreholes to meet your quality standards.
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Rehabilitation
INTERFACE-EAU can restore boreholes through mechanical means and/or chemical treatment. The process can involve simple compressed air cleaning and mechanical scrubbing, or extend to much more delicate operations, such as unclogging slotted casings through chemical treatment or partial relining.
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Groundwater catchment works
Most clients hire us to restore existing systems. But when rehabilitation is not feasible, Interface Eau can consult, manage, or execute: drilling campaigns, observation wells, excavated wells and spring catchments.
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Pumping tests
We evaluate boreholes – through either step pumping tests or long-duration pumping tests – determining the maximum operational yield, critical discharge, and required equipment. We can also characterize the aquifers in terms of permeability, transmissivity, critical radius, and storage coefficient.
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Management and protection
Aquifers face ever-increasing threats: overconsumption, industrial growth, accidental pollution, etc. To help our clients protect and manage their aquifers, INTERFACE-EAU quantifies available resources, designs protection perimeters, secures groundwater catchment works and maps vulnerabilities.
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Training
INTERFACE-EAU provides technical training, first upgrading your technicians and engineers’ hydrogeological skills, and then providing ongoing remote support. This service addresses the needs of ministries, humanitarian organizations, and development agencies that wish to promote knowledge transfer.
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Guy earned his PhD in hydrogeology in 1982, at the University of Lyon. In 1987, after 3 years of working as an engineer for a drilling company, he founded his own drilling venture, Aquasondage, in the southeast of France. In 1997, Guy went on to found Idées-Eaux, an engineering office specializing in water investigation and borehole measurements. In 2007, he expanded, adding a second office in the French Jura region. His work with Idées-Eaux takes him throughout France, and abroad. Guy brings with him over 20 years of experience in the protection of drinking water basins.
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Trained as a Mining Engineer, Jean-Yves specializes in groundwater. Since 1994, he has been involved in both emergency humanitarian interventions and long-term development aid projects. For more than 20 years, he has collaborated with MSF (Médecins Sans Frontières) while consulting for a number of international engineering offices developing urban and rural water supply programs. Since 2010, he has occupied the position of Water, Hygiene and Sanitation Referent at MSF’s Operational Center in Brussels. With his wide-ranging practical experience, Jean-Yves offers a scientific approach, combined with project management skills, and extensive hands-on field experience.
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Mamadou, a Sanitary Engineering Technician, began working with the Ministry of Health in Burkina Faso in 2004. After graduating from the Bioforce Institute in Lyon in 2009, he joined MSF in 2010. Since then, he has pursued a humanitarian career with MSF, working in the field as a WASH Coordinator and Water and Sanitation Project Manager.