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.

scholarly journals The implications of climate change for the water environment in England

2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nigel W. Arnell ◽  
Sarah J. Halliday ◽  
Richard W. Battarbee ◽  
Richard A. Skeffington ◽  
Andrew J. Wade
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Water Management ◽  
Water Environment ◽  
Simulation Models ◽  
Climate Change Scenarios ◽  
Systematic Assessment ◽  
Management Objectives ◽  
Management Interventions ◽  
The Status ◽  
Policy Objectives

This paper reviews the implications of climate change for the water environment and its management in England. There is a large literature, but most studies have looked at flow volumes or nutrients and none have considered explicitly the implications of climate change for the delivery of water management objectives. Studies have been undertaken in a small number of locations. Studies have used observations from the past to infer future changes, and have used numerical simulation models with climate change scenarios. The literature indicates that climate change poses risks to the delivery of water management objectives, but that these risks depend on local catchment and water body conditions. Climate change affects the status of water bodies, and it affects the effectiveness of measures to manage the water environment and meet policy objectives. The future impact of climate change on the water environment and its management is uncertain. Impacts are dependent on changes in the duration of dry spells and frequency of ‘flushing’ events, which are highly uncertain and not included in current climate scenarios. There is a good qualitative understanding of ways in which systems may change, but interactions between components of the water environment are poorly understood. Predictive models are only available for some components, and model parametric and structural uncertainty has not been evaluated. The impacts of climate change depend on other pressures on the water environment in a catchment, and also on the management interventions that are undertaken to achieve water management objectives. The paper has also developed a series of consistent conceptual models describing the implications of climate change for pressures on the water environment, based around the source-pathway-receptor concept. They provide a framework for a systematic assessment across catchments and pressures of the implications of climate change for the water environment and its management.

scholarly journals The eu Water Framework Directive – Challenges, Gaps and Potential for the Future

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 249-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Hendry
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Water Framework Directive ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Eu Water Framework Directive ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Policy Perspective ◽  
Water Users ◽  
Court Of Justice ◽  
The Eu

This article assesses the progress of the European Union’s Water Framework Directive from a legal and policy perspective. Emerging judgments from the Court of Justice of the European Union are providing new clarity, for example on cost recovery for water services and the application of the ‘no deterioration’ principle. The article reflects on transposition, especially in the uk; analyses several aspects that have been especially challenging, for policy-makers, regulators and water users; and identifies some missing elements. Challenges include the meaning of ‘good status’ and the derogations to achieving the same; the article will suggest that the derogations are needlessly complex, and that ‘good status’ as a binding obligation has had unintended consequences. Absent from the text currently is provision for drought, climate change and ecosystem services, and it concludes that each of these could usefully be part of the Commission’s review in 2019.

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.

Establishing reference conditions for Polish lakes - preliminary results

2008 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanna Soszka ◽  
Agnieszka Kolada ◽  
Małgorzata Gołub ◽  
Dorota Cydzik
Keyword(s):  
Water Framework Directive ◽  
Reference Values ◽  
Surface Waters ◽  
Reference Conditions ◽  
Ecological Status ◽  
Eu Water Framework Directive ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
The Eu

Establishing reference conditions for Polish lakes - preliminary resultsEstablishing reference conditions is essential for performing ecological status assessments of surface waters according to the EU Water Framework Directive. Ecological status is described as the deviation from undisturbed (reference) conditions. This paper presents the process of establishing preliminary reference values for chlorophyll

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