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WATERPROTECT

Innovative tools enabling drinking WATER PROTECTion in rural and urban environments

Coordinator	INSTYTUT TECHNOLOGICZNO-PRZYRODNICZY ; AGENZIA REGIONALE PER LA PREVENZIONE, L'AMBIENTE E L'ENERGIA DELL'EMILIA-ROMAGNA ; EUROPEAN FEDERATION OF BOTTLED WATERS ; AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DEINVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS ; THE EUROPEAN WATER PARTNERSHIP AISBL ; PANSTWOWY INSTYTUT GEOLOGICZNY - PANSTWOWY INSTYTUT BADAWCZY ; SKIVE KOMMUNE ; ASSOCIAZIONE PIACE CIBO SANO ; CONSORCI DEL PARC AGRARI DEL BAIX LLOBREGAT ; ASOCIATIA ECOLOGIC BAIA MARE ; VLAAMSE MILIEUMAATSCHAPPIJ ; GLANBIA IRELAND DESIGNATED ACTIVITY COMPANY ; COMUNITAT D'USUARIS D'AIGUES DE LA VALL BAIXA I DELTA DEL LLOBREGAT ; VLAAMSE MAATSCHAPPIJ VOOR WATERVOORZIENING ; WEXFORD COUNTY COUNCIL ; LANDBO LIMFJORD ; Technical University of Cluj-Napoca ; EIGEN VERMOGEN VAN HET INSTITUUT VOOR LANDBOUW- EN VISSERIJONDERZOEK ; Teagasc - The Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority ; Flemish Institute for Technological Research ; University of Ulster ; INAGRO, PROVINCIAAL EXTERN VERZELFSTANDIGD AGENTSCHAP IN PRIVAATRECHTELIJKE VORM VZW ; Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland ; West Pomeranian University of Technology ; IT University of Copenhagen ; Catholic University of the Sacred Heart ; AIGUES DE BARCELONA, EMPRESA METROPOLITANA DE GESTIO DEL CICLE INTEGRAL DE L'AIGUA SA
Grant period	2017-06-01 - 2020-09-30
Funding body	European Union
Call number	H2020-RUR-2016-2
Grant number	727450
Identifier	G:(EU-Grant)727450

Note: High-quality, safe, and sufficient drinking water is essential for life: we use it for drinking, food preparation and cleaning. Agriculture is the biggest source of pesticides and nitrate pollution in European fresh waters. The overarching objective of WATERPROTECT is to contribute to effective uptake and realisation of management practices and mitigation measures to protect drinking water resources. Therefore WATERPROTECT will create an integrative multi-actor participatory framework including innovative instruments that enable actors to monitor, to finance and to effectively implement management practices and measures for the protection of water sources. We propose seven case studies involving multiple actors in implementing good practices (land management, farming, product stewardship, point source pollution prevention) to ensure safe drinking water supply. The seven case studies cover different pedo-climatic conditions, different types of farming systems, different legal frameworks, larger and smaller water collection areas across the EU. In close cooperation with actors in the field in the case studies (farmers associations, local authorities, water producing companies, private water companies, consumer organisations) and other stakeholders (fertilizer and plant protection industry, environment agencies, nature conservation agencies, agricultural administrations) at local and EU level, WATERPROTECT will develop innovative water governance models investigating alternative pathways from focusing on the ‘costs of water treatment’ to ‘rewarding water quality delivering farming systems’. Water governance structures will be built upon cost-efficiency analysis related to mitigation and cost-benefit analysis for society, and will be supported by spatially explicit GIS analyses and predictive models that account for temporal and spatial scaling issues. The outcome will be improved participatory methods and public policy instruments to protect drinking water resources.

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