Integrated water management in shared water resources: The EU Water Framework Directive implementation in Greece

2008 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 347-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yannis A. Mylopoulos ◽  
Elpida G. Kolokytha
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Framework Directive ◽  
Eu Water Framework Directive ◽  
Integrated Water Management ◽  
The Eu

scholarly journals Governance of Water Resources in the Phase of Change: A Case Study of the Implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive in Sweden

AMBIO ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Hammer ◽  
Berit Balfors ◽  
Ulla Mörtberg ◽  
Mona Petersson ◽  
Andrew Quin
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Framework Directive ◽  
Eu Water Framework Directive ◽  
The Eu

Fresh Groundwater Monitoring in Georgia, EUWI+ project support to Georgia in implementing the EU Water Framework Directive and improvment the monitoring network

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nana Kitiashvili ◽  
Merab Gaprindashvili ◽  
Christoph Leitner ◽  
Franko Humer
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Framework Directive ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Groundwater Monitoring ◽  
Monitoring Network ◽  
Eu Water Framework Directive ◽  
Basin Management ◽  
Fresh Groundwater ◽  
Groundwater Monitoring Network ◽  
The Eu

<p>Georgia is among the countries which have fresh groundwater distinguished for significant resources and drinking qualities of naturally high quality. Hydrogeological exploration and monitoring works for the purpose of identification, study and protection of fresh groundwater were not conducted in the period of 1990–2013. Considering the long-term termination of centralized researches and the intensively increasing anthropogenic pressures on the environment and on water in particular, the assessment and protection of groundwater resources becomes a very pressing issue. For this purpose, in 2013, on initiative of the Geology Department of LEPL National Environmental Agency of Georgia and the Czech Development Agency, restoration of the hydrogeological monitoring network and research of fresh groundwater using modern methodology began. The modern equipment was gradually installed on the water objects to obtain information about quantitative and qualitative characteristics in "online" mode and taking water samples for chemical and bacterial analysis twice a year. Currently, 56 water points (mainly wells) are being monitored. The database on quantitative and qualitative characteristics of fresh groundwater of Georgia is being expanding based on information received online from water points, fieldwork results, laboratory analyzes (chemical and bacteriological), and on the processing, analyzing and generalizing of the collected actual materials. As the issue concerns fresh groundwater (which is used by at least 90% of the population), it’s necessary to expand the state monitoring network. According to the EU Water Framework Directive, based on the basin management principles of water resources, conduct of researches is granted particular significance in the trans-boundary zone.</p><p>The „European Union Water Initiative Plus for Eastern Partnership (EaP) Countries (EUWI+)″, which is the biggest commitment of the EU to the water sector in the EaP countries, helps Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine to bring their legislation closer to EU policy in the field of water management, as identified by the EU Water Framework Directive. The EUWI+ project addresses existing challenges in both development and implementation of efficient management of water resources.. Monitoring data are an important basis for water management, for risk, status and trend assessment and for the design and implementation of an effective and cost-efficient program of measures .</p><p>Within the EUWI+ project, the following key activities were undertaken in Georgia: „Delineation and characterization of groundwater bodies and the design of a groundwater monitoring network in the Alazani-Iori and Khrami-Debed River Basin Districts in Georgia“, „Performed hydrogeological preliminary field works in the Alazani-Iori and Khrami-Debed River Basin“. Currently „Geophysical, isotope, hydrochemical, bacteriological and hydrodynamic assessment of twelve selected wells to be included in the national groundwater monitoring network in the Alazani-Iori River Basin District in Georgia“ is in progress. The results of this study are a basis for the improvement of the groundwater monitoring network and the development of River Basin Management Plans. As a part of the EUWI+ project, several new monitoring stations are planned.</p><p>The results are important in the process of implementation of integrated management of water resources, which should finally ensure sustainable management of water resources and reliable health protection of the population.</p>

scholarly journals Going with the flow: Integrated Water Resources Management, the EU Water Framework Directive and ecological flows

Legal Studies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 298-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Howarth
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Framework Directive ◽  
Water Resources Management ◽  
Integrated Water Resources Management ◽  
Eu Water Framework Directive ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Water Legislation ◽  
Ecological Flows ◽  
The Eu

AbstractThis paper seeks to relate strategic themes in water resources management to the practicalities of imposing particular regulatory measures on water uses and to protect aquatic ecosystems. Specifically, a contrast is drawn between the global imperative of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) and the sectoral (issue-by-issue) approach to water regulation that has traditionally prevailed in both regional (EU) and national legislation. The intuitive attractions of ‘integration’ are contrasted with the challenges of interrelating this to the diverse purposes for which water legislation is adopted, both for human needs and for ecological purposes. These challenges are well illustrated in the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) which purports to adopt an ‘integrated’ approach, but is actually concerned with water quality, largely to the exclusion of other water-related concerns. Insofar as the Directive does seek to secure integration between water quality and water quantity concerns in surface water, this is only done in a secondary or incidental way. Water flow becomes relevant only where specified environmental objectives under the Directive are not being met. However, the legally contingent status of flow has been bolstered markedly by recent guidance on ecological flows under the WFD Common Implementation Strategy. The significance of this guidance is discussed and related to the implementation challenges that it raises. In relation to the UK, and particularly England, it is argued that the response to addressing water flow issues arising under the WFD had been dilatory and inadequate. Concluding observations reflect on the global, regional and national challenges to integration of water legislation as they have been illustrated by the discussion of regulating for ecological water flows.

scholarly journals River Restoration and the EU Water Framework Directive

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Water Framework Directive ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Coastal Waters ◽  
River Restoration ◽  
Wild Animal ◽  
Eu Water Framework Directive ◽  
Ecological State ◽  
Ecological Functions ◽  
The Eu

River restoration contributes to overall improvement of the river basin ecological state. Ecologically sound river restoration strives for rehabilitation of the lost ecological functions, contribution to biodiversity, support of the species recovery through wild animal habitats development and improvement of inner and coastal waters quality due to retention of sediments, nutrients and pollutants during the flood periods. Issues of river restoration in Europe, objectives of European Center for River Restoration as well as EU Framework Water Directive influence on water management in Europe has been discussed.

scholarly journals New Water Act in Poland – Changes and Dilemmas

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-22
Author(s):  
Edward Pierzgalski
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Water Framework Directive ◽  
Important Change ◽  
Eu Water Framework Directive ◽  
Water Infrastructure ◽  
Fundamental Change ◽  
Financial Instruments ◽  
State Water ◽  
Eu Directives ◽  
The Eu

AbstractThe article presents the reasons and goals of the new Water Act development, which was supposed to replace amended many times the 2001 Water Act. A new Water Act has been approved 1 July 2017. The main aim of new Water Act is an achievements the objectives of the EU Water Framework Directive and other EU directives related to water management. The most important change of new Water Act is the establishment of a new water management organization in Poland, for which since January 1, 2018 is responsible the State Water Enterprise Polish Waters. The second new fundamental change is the introduction of nine water management financial instruments. Water services fees are one of them. The mechanism for determining the amount of these fees was one of the most debatable problems when adopting this legislative document. The article also presents the voices criticizing the detailed introduced solutions, including changes in investment of water infrastructure and their maintenance in agriculture.

scholarly journals Good Status in the Changing Climate?—Climate Proofing Law on Water Management in the EU

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 517
Author(s):  
Suvi-Tuuli Puharinen
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Water Management ◽  
Water Framework Directive ◽  
Surface Waters ◽  
Water Policy ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Eu Water Framework Directive ◽  
Management Objectives ◽  
Policy Objectives ◽  
The Eu

Climate change impacts constitute a major risk to the attainment of water policy objectives. This article analyses the resilience of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) in the light of the challenges that climate change brings to achieving the Directive’s objectives, no-deterioration and good status of surface waters and groundwater. The WFD includes mechanisms to adapt the water management objectives to climate change impacts, including redefining good status and application of exemptions. However, more harmonised efforts at the EU level would be needed to ensure an equal level of ambition and continuity in the water management objectives capacity to steer towards sustainable regime shifts.

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