Water Scarcity & Drought Expert Network Athens 19 January Dicembre 2004 Water Scarcity and WFD Implementation: State of play, Gaps and Opportunities Giorgio Pineschi Water Scarcity and Drought Expert Network Athens 19 January 2007 Water Scarcity and WFD Implementation: State of play, Gaps and Opportunities Giorgio Pineschi Water Scarcity and Drought Expert Network Athens 19 January 2007

Water Scarcity & Drought Expert Network Athens 19 January Dicembre 2004CountryTrsp RBD Rep. Art5 rep. Austria Belgium Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France GermanyCountryTrsp RBD Rep. Art5 rep. Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxem- bourg  Malta Nether- lands CountryTrsp RBD Rep. Art5 rep. Poland Portugal Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden United Kingdom “WFD Scoreboard” - Nov 2006 Scoreboard and all MS reports publicly availble through: WFD Challenge

TEVEREADIGE ARNO FLUMENDOSA WFD is focused on Water Quality

Water Scarcity & Drought Expert Network Athens 19 January Dicembre 2004 What kind of problem are we facing ? Imbalances : water demands exceed the supply capacity of natural system Aridity : natural phenomenon (low water avaibility) Drought situation : deviation from the average situation, still within the ecosystem natural variability RESULT IN Transitory periods of water deficiency long-term imbalances

Water Scarcity & Drought Expert Network Athens 19 January Dicembre 2004 From crisis to risk managementnew conception of d.m. long-term drought preparedness policies prevention and mitigation actions proactive management contingency planning – reduce vulnerability and increase resilience Need of coordination Need of lessons from previous drought events Strategic planning of water resources management for drought preparation and mitigation A new approach for drought management Social, economic and environmental aspects

Water Scarcity & Drought Expert Network Athens 19 January Dicembre 2004 Drought planning and management Permanent or temporary deficit

Water Scarcity & Drought Expert Network Athens 19 January Dicembre LONG-TERM ACTIONS to face an incoming particular drought event within the existing framework of infrastructures and management policies to reduce the vulnerability of water supply systems to drought - SHORT-TERM ACTIONS  Water conservation and demand management (efficient use and resource protection)  Educational Programs  Social awareness  Research  monitoring system (Drought Plan Monitoring)  impact assessment system  response system requires: legal framework legal framework organisational structure organisational structure measures and infrastructures measures and infrastructures Strategic planning

Water Scarcity & Drought Expert Network Athens 19 January Dicembre 2004 Emerging actions on demand side Emerging actions on supply side Reduction of leakages Improvement of water reuse technologies Evaluation of water bank and quotas system Establish adapted tax system and pricing policy Development of education and awareness campaigns Preservation of the functioning of natural catchments and restoration of lost catchments Improvement of an efficient use of water infrastructures (dams, inter basin water transfer,…) Establish an obligation for a costs/advantages/alternative solution analysis for every new water resource creation project improvements of irrigation technologies

Water Scarcity & Drought Expert Network Athens 19 January Dicembre The link between water scarcity and environmental protection issues and objectives (WFD) prevention of further deterioration mitigation of drought effects good ecological status achievement qood quantitative status for groundwaters 2. The link between WFD implementation and water scarcity management POM RBMP DROUGHT MANAGEMT SUB-PLAN PUBLIC PARTICIPATION Issues in the implementation of WFD

Water Scarcity & Drought Expert Network Athens 19 January Dicembre 2004 Issues in the implementation of WFD When and where needed, a specific “drought management (sub)plan” should be included in the WFD RBMP (art. 13.5). Public participation (art. 14) should also be organised around water scarcity management issues, as required by the WFD. When developing the WFD POM and associated RBMPs (art. 11 and 13), quantitative and qualitative aspects should be jointly considered for the plans and programmes to be coherent and to create synergies where possible. The integration of specific quantitative management measures inside the POM could add supplementary constraints (technical and financial) for concerned countries to take into account. When setting the environmental objectives in the RBMPs, these additional constraints should be taken into account when justifying the potential exemptions. Drought plans must establish objective thresholds in order to implement the specific measures that are related to an indicator system and also included in the RBMPs

Water Scarcity & Drought Expert Network Athens 19 January Dicembre 2004 Main further development needed Evaluation of the efficiency of measures (methodologies) Link with Climate changes Link with the research sphere Drought Exemptions /Drought Monitoring and appropriate indicators for a common assessment Link with other policies (agriculture, land planning, industry…) Explore the EU funding instruments for WS and Drought Public Awareness Best Combination of measures

EU Activities on “WATER SCARCITY AND DROUGHT” June 2006 Technical document “Water Scarcity and Drought management in the context of WFD” Policy Summary on Water Scarcity and Drought CIS Drafting Group PENDING ISSUES (exemptions, drought management plans,agriculture) June 2006 European Action on Water Scarcity and Drought First Report on Water Scarcity and Drought presented by the Commission to the Environment Council Need for FURTHER ANALYSIS

EU Activities on “WATER SCARCITY AND DROUGHT” POLITICAL ACTION Policy development on Water Scarcity&Drought (COMM supported by a Stakeholder Forum and Expert Network) COMMUNICATION (by June 2007) TECHNICAL WORK MODULE 1 In-depth assessment (COMM supported by expert net) MODULE 2 Links between WS&D and WFD (EXPERT NET) Support to other CIS groups (agriculture, exemptions, climate change, GWs)

Water Scarcity & Drought Expert Network Athens 19 January Dicembre 2004 The Expert Network, led by FR,IT, ES, will :  Support the COMM in the in-depth analysis  Work on the “pending issues”, producing one technical (?) output  Function as an observatory for WS&D issues, referring to WDs, via SCG  Work as interface with other WGs and with the MED-EUWI/WFD JP

MODULE 1: IN-DEPTH ASSESSMENT LeaderCOMMISSION Support Co-leader, Expert Network ObjectiveGet a more detailed picture of the situation in order to assess whether additional actions are needed and in particular: the extent and magnitude of problems the size of gaps in EU legislation to address WS&D Tasks definition of the kind of data and indicators data collection and examination (consistency, comparability) synthesis of available information analysis of existing gaps in EU legislation and financial instruments Outcomes first interim report (analysis of data) final report (impacts, existing measures, gaps) complementary report (information from research sphere)

MODULE 2: Links between WS&D and WFD LeaderExpert Network (on the basis of the existing group WS&D with new MS and stakeholders) - leaded by FR, ES, IT ObjectiveAnalyse specific aspects of the implementation of WFD linked to WS&D in order to have a common understanding: agriculture exemptions (prolonged droughts) drought management plan (as supplementary plan - art. 13) groundwaters climate change Tasks Outcomes technical report on drought management plan technical inputs on exemptions and agriculture (to be sent to the thematic CIS WGs) workshop on best practices and lessons learnt interface with other CIS WGs (exemptions, agriculture, climate change, groundwater) through the FR, ES, IT representatives and through written documents develop common understanding of provisions of art. 13 (RBMP - supplementary plan) in WS&D situations

Water Scarcity & Drought Expert Network Athens 19 January Dicembre 2004 MODULE 2: activities The following specific aspects of the implementation of the WFD linked to WS&D will be scrutinized within the CIS WGs and need a common understanding: Climate change GWs evaluation of climate change effects on drought events. Interface with WS&D activities will be identified as soon as the activity is set up providing information (legislative and financial) on existing measures at EU and national levels linked with preventing and mitigating WS&D in case of groundwater resources over- exploitation Agriculture - analysis of measures that could be utilised to address WS&D - what is already done by MS (table by country & by measure) Exemptions (art. 4.6) DMP (art. 11, 13) - Common understanding of ‘prolonged droughts’ (definitions of indicators and thresholds according to climatic context) - Measures under exceptional circumstances - Analysis of existing practices and development plans - Allowing compatibility with article 13

EXPERT NETWORK ON “WATER SCARCITY AND DROUGHT” TIMETABLE Time Actions Management phase XX Working Module 1 XXXXX Working Module 2 XXXXXX Workshop under the Portuguese Presidency X Workshop under the French Presidency X Deliverables Module 1 reports First Interim Report (available) Final report X Complementary report X Module 2 reports Technical input on agriculture to be sent to WFD&Ag SSG X Technical input on exemptions to be sent to EO&Exmpt group X Technical report on drought management plan X

Water Scarcity & Drought Expert Network Athens 19 January Dicembre 2004 To meet the objectives of module 1 and 2 will be crucial to:  Facilitate the information exchange  Set a strong coordination among the different existing activities on WS & D  Learn from the existing experience  Make the best use of the scientific results coming from the Research Projects  Make the best use of the EU Research founds