WATERDISS

The implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) and its daughter directives, as well as the Floods Directive, is not a "Business-as-usual approach" and constitutes an exceptional challenge to water managers and governments across Europe. Assessments of the current status of implementation have shown that less than 40% of water bodies will meet the Good Ecological Status in 2015... But when looking at the impact of research on water management practices, it is demonstrated that the connection between research and the policy process is not efficient. As stated by FUNDETEC, a FP6-project, final report in Dec.2007, "the typical length of time needed to complete the development cycle (in the water sector) is 10 years" ; this means that research commissioned today will impact water management practices within about 12 years, far after the next milestones of the Water Framework Directive (2015, 2021)... The community will mix exchanges at European scale (information of..

Also known as: Waterdiss Consortium