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Water Sensitive City

Background Document - Water Sensitive City

Understanding the topic of Water Sensitive city. Interview with the Ex-ante Assessment expert.

The Ex-Ante Assessment (EAA) is designed to analyse the current state, the challenges cities face, how these challenges fit within the EU and national contexts, and the barriers that need to be overcome to advance the new topic of the UAEU Thematic partnership - Water Sensitive City. It explores the regulatory and policy frameworks, funding opportunities, knowledge availability, and it defines the scope of the partnership. This is why the EAA is crucial as the foundation for the new Thematic Partnership.

By Urban Agenda EU

About the Thematic Area

Rapid urban growth in European cities has led to significant artificial land cover, which in some cities has greatly increased the effects of rainwater runoff. This phenomenon, combined with the effects of climate change, including increased precipitation alternating with droughts, can lead to significant flood risks. In the EU context, several ongoing developments within cities contribute to the pressing issues of water scarcity and floods, which pose challenges to sustainable urban development (Climate Change, Ageing infrastructure, Land-use changes, inefficient water management practices, lack of integrated approaches).

To address these challenges, a multi-level governance approach could help improve and create tools, measures and governance mechanisms to help implementing sustainable urban drainage systems, reusing water, set up storage systems promoting water conservation measures, to build models of water sensitive urban management and promote integrated approaches.

Watch the Ex-Ante Assessment Expert Birgit Georgi explain the topic for the Water Sensitive City Thematic Partnership.

Members

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National authorities

Ministry of Regional Development (CZ)
Ministry of Climate (EE)

Regions

Intermunicipal Community of Coimbra Region (PT)

Cities (Urban Authorities)

Municipality of The Hague (NL)
Municipality of Turin (IT)
Municipality of Enschede (NL)
Elche City Council (ES)
Municipality of Roman (RO)
Municipality of Halandri (EL)
Municipality of Viimsi (EE)
Kalocsa City Municipality (HU)

European/ national city umbrella organisation

Council of European Municipalities and Regions - CEMR
Resilient Cities Network

Other stakeholders

Cetaqua, Centro Tecnológico del Agua (ES)
Águas e Energia do Porto (PT)
Acondicionamiento Tarrasense Associación - LEITAT (ES)
Major Development Agency Thessaloniki - Local Government Organization
(EL)
Commonspace Co-op (EL)

European institutions

European Commission Directorate-General for Energy (DG ENER)
European Commission Directorate-General for Environment (DG ENV)
European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC)
European Commission Directorate-General for Structural Reform Support (DG REFORM)

Documents

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