Regional Workshops on Water Vision

The Vision contains clear objectives and commitments. Therefore, the vision will serve as guidance to reach joint actions in the different partnerships on advanced water management and to solve the water problems in Europe and global water challenges.

The Vision was handed over to the European Union Institutions on 30th June 2008 during the launch of Aquawareness.

After this expert view on the basic vision text, a broad discussion, dissemination and commitment of a maximum of stakeholder groups throughout Europe is crucial. Therefore, a regional consultation process across Europe is lanced by the EWP that will give the opportunity to add region-specific points.

The following regional workshops are planned:

• 3 December 2008 - Castellon (Spain) for Southern Europe
• 8 - 9  January 2009 - Copenhagen (Denmark) for Northern Europe
• 26 January 2009 - Vienna (Austria) for CEE
• 4 - 5  February 2009 - Brussels (Belgium) for Western Europe and  UNECE countries (excl. USA and Canada)

At the end of this consultation process, the region-specific views and opinions on the European Water Vision will be analysed and then presented during the 5th World Water Forum in Istanbul in March 2009, as a European contribution to the Forum and as a result from wide ranging regional consultations.