Nature-Based Solutions Are Key for European Water Security

New report demonstrates how nature can help address a broad range of water security challenges

Water security is at the heart of healthy and prosperous societies. European countries’ prosperity depends on their ability to maintain the gains they have achieved in water security and address new and rising challenges.

Nature Based Solutions can be deployed to address water challenges related to surface water quality, groundwater quality, floods and water scarcity. This report outlines a strategic vision to mobilise greater investments in nature address Europe’s outstanding water security challenges.

Nature-based solutions for water security can help protect freshwater resources and safeguard nature’s integrity. They can make a significant contribution to reversing the rapid decline in freshwater biodiversity in Europe, adapt to climate change and mitigate its impacts. These solutions are increasingly seen as cost-efficient strategies that need to be mainstreamed in water resource management strategies. 

The report’s main objectives are:

• To identify the roles that nature-based solutions can play to tackle Europe’s water security challenges, as part of hybrid (green-grey) water investment strategies;
• To extract learning from on-the-ground experiences with investments in nature for water security in Europe and identify enabling conditions and barriers to scale;
• To formulate recommendations on what needs to be done differently to achieve scale and contribute to boost water security and resilience in the European Union.

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SOURCE THE NATURE CONSERVANCY

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Taxonomy

• Environment
• Natural Resource Management
• EU environmental policy
• Environmental Conservator
• Natural Resources Management
• Environmental
• Natural Resource Management