Retouch Nexus Dashboard

For the RETOUCH NEXUS case studies, the dashboard below summarizes the main characteristics of their water governance systems. Water governance in the EU presents a comprehensive framework that aims to ensure sustainable use and management of water resources. Please click the buttons to learn about water governance structures, the main challenges to sustainable water governance and data and evaluation of water policies in the case studies.

Case Study Comparison

Individual Case Study Analysis

Water Governance Structure

Challenges To Sustainable
Water Management

Data And Evaluation
Of Water Policies

Case Studies	Coordination Mechanisms		Water Policy Setting		Implementing Institutions
Case Studies	Vertical Coordination	Horizontal Coordination	National Government	Regional Government	National Authorities	Regional Authorities	Municipalities	River Basin Managers
SPAIN Jucar River Basin	Top-down		METDC Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Change (Spain)	Valencia, Castilla-La Mancha	NWA NWA – National Water Agency (Spain)
NETHERLANDS North Holland	Bottom-up		MIWM MIWM – Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management (The Netherlands)	North Holland	RWS RWS – Rijkswaterstaat (Department of Waterways and Public Works) (The Netherlands)
SLOVAKIA South-Western Slovakia	Top-down		ME ME – Ministry of Environment (Slovakia)		SWME SWME – Slovak Water Management Enterprise (Slovakia)
BELGIUM Flanders				Flanders		CIW CIW – Flemish Committee for Integrated Water Policy (Belgium)
GERMANY Upper Main District	Top-down		Federal Government	Bavaria: MECP MECP - Bavarian Ministry of Environment and Consumer Protection (Germany)		SOE SOE - Bavarian State Office for the Environment (Germany)
MALTA Malta River Basin			MEEE MEEE – Ministry of Environment, Energy and Enterprise (Malta)		ERA ERA – Environment and Resources Authority (Malta)			(basin = the whole country)

Case Studies	WEFE Nexus in Water Governance	Capacities of institutions(personal and financial)	Other Specific Challenges
SPAIN Jucar River Basin	collaboration among sectors is facilitated	declared capacities and level of autonomy are sufficient	Water markets extension public-private, Partnership for innovations
NETHERLANDS North Holland	Cross-sectoral cooperation at the national level, emphasis on water-soil nexus	Institutions adequately equipped from the judicial responsibility point of view	Societal demand shifts create pressure on an increase of capacities
SLOVAKIA South-Western Slovakia	Basic collaboration, water-soil concept under development	Lack of capacities, a review of competences and institutional structure is foreseen	Stable financing of state water administration required
BELGIUM Flanders	Basic collaboration, WEFE nexus concept not developed yet	Lack of structural, long-term funding mechanisms for water systems management	Valuing water such that investments in alternative water sources are facilitated Resilience to climate change
GERMANY Upper Main District	Basic collaboration, WEFE nexus concept not developed yet	Capacity limits (personal and financial) have been reached	Water withdrawal charges not applied in Bavaria
MALTA Malta River Basin	Cross-sectoral coordination between water and energy, and environment well developed	Institutions have adequate capacities	Energy dependency for water supply of the island

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Case Studies	Legislative Requirements	Data Availability		Challenges
Case Studies	Legislative requirements for water policy monitoring and evaluation	Water Information System	Diverse Data Source	Challenges for empirical evidence on water resources and water policies
SPAIN Jucar River Basin				Gaps in data collection for groundwater use in regions with its quality or quantity problems gaps in economic valuation of ecosystems and ecosystem services
NETHERLANDS North Holland				Water-related environmental information publicly available, but interpretation may be complex; progress in the implementation of the WFD programmes of measures reported online at the level of regional water authorities
SLOVAKIA South-Western Slovakia				Incomparable structure of information in fragmented data sources, some information only for actual time period, historical time series difficult to access, some data not publicly available
BELGIUM Flanders				Gaps in temporal resolution of water abstraction data, real time data on water quality, data on measures taken by water users, digital water metering
GERMANY Upper Main District				Gaps in survey of public water supply – it does not provide individual characteristics such as water delivery to agriculture
MALTA Malta River Basin				Data collected by a central authority, a water information system is under development

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