This report presents the freshwater quantity results obtained from a study on EU integrated policy assessment for the freshwater and marine environment (BLUE2). With the aim to reduce the already existing pressures on Europe’s freshwater resources, EU Member States are planning and implementing ...
This document summarises outcomes relating to water quality and waterbody conditions from the report ‘Nature-based Solutions: State of the Art in EU-funded Projects’ (Wild et al. (Eds.) 2020) prepared through the EC’s Valorisation of NBS Projects Initiative. EU research and innovation projects w...
Although European Directive 2008/114/EC on the protection of critical infrastructures (Council of the European Union, 2008) does not designate the water supply sector as a critical infrastructure, all governments recognise that their water supply is vital to national security. Water systems are ...
Society today faces the problem of increasingly scarce water resources, generating competition for water between the various economic sectors. Droughts and floods have the potential to undermine the functioning of sectors such as the energy and food production industries, with consequent societa...
This report presents a summary of the results of the “Study on European Union (EU) integrated policy assessment for the freshwater and marine environment, on the economic benefits of EU water policy and on the costs of its non-implementation” (BLUE2) commissioned by the European Commission (EC)....
