European Water Resilience Strategy

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European Water Resilience Strategy

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Introduction, background and focus

The Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) is Germany’s largest research centre for freshwaters.

Our research findings help to tackle environmental changes and to develop strategies for sustainable water management – true to our guiding principle “Research for the future of our freshwaters”. Based on our research and expertise, we comment on the EU Call for Evidence on the planned European Water Resilience Strategy (EWRS). Europe’s freshwaters are both important strategic resources for humans and valuable habitats for nature.

They provide a wide variety of ecosystem services and play a major role in climate change adaptation and mitigation.

However, at the same time, these aquatic ecosystems are threatened by ongoing man-made climate change and other constantly increasing human pressures.

To tackle these stressors and resulting challenges, the EU wants do develop a European Water Resilience Strategy (EWRS) “to ensure that water sources are properly managed, scarcity is addressed, and that we enhance the competitive innovative edge of our water industry and take a circular economy approach.”

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