Solutions for Water platform – World Water Forum 6th – Marseille 2012

During the 4th World Water Forum in 2006, the European process generated a number of recommendations on water scarcity and droughts, stressing the need to invest substantially in real-time monitoring, scenario modelling and data-collection activities in order to increase preparedness, improve forecasting extreme events’ frequency and intensity, and provide early warning systems. The European regional report at the Istanbul’s 5th World Water Forum was the occasion to emphasize, in line with the motto of “bridging divides”, the issues of financing, water efficiency, cost recovery, as well as the issues of river basin management and access of the poor to drinking water and sanitation. 

Targets

• EU1. Good practices for transboundary water cooperation in Europe

• EU2. Achieving good status of Europe’s water resources

• EU3. Adapting to climate change in Europe

• EU4. Develop a water-friendly european agriculture

• EU5. Inland waterways, a multi-usage network

• EU6. Sustainable hydropower

• EU7. The importance of access to drinking water and sanitation for European vulnerable populations

• EU8. Promoting sustainable financing of water and sanitation : Applying the “3Ts”framework – (Tariffs, Taxes and Transfers)

• EU9. Protection and restoration of river ecosystems

• EU10. Science and Water Policy Interface: When Science and Innovation Meet Water Policy

• EU11. Adapting water management to the specificities of European Outermost regions

• EU12. Develop European cooperation with Third World Countries in the water field