Environment
Financing Water Supply, Sanitation and Flood Protection
Challenges in EU Member States and Policy Options
The OECD and the Directorate-General for Environment, the European Commission department
responsible for EU policy on the environment, joined forces to examine current and
future water-related financing challenges faced by EU member states. These include
investments needed to comply with EU regulation for water supply, wastewater collection
and treatment, and flood protection.
As part of the research, new data was produced on current levels of expenditure for
water supply, sanitation and flood protection, as well as on projected needs. It supported
a comparison across member states and substantiated tailored policy discussions in
selected countries and at European level. This report captures the rationale for the
research, the main quantitative outcomes and the policy issues and recommendations
that derived from this two-year co-operation. Lessons from Europe outlined in this
report can inspire similar research and policy discussions in other parts of the world.
Available from May 27, 2020
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
| Foreword | |
| Executive summary | |
| Background and process | |
| Framing the challenge | |
| The state of play | |
| Projected investment needs across member states | |
| The capacity to finance projected investment needs across member states | |
| Selected options to address financing challenges | |
| Costs of addressing emerging challenges in wastewater collection and treatment | |
| Data and method | |
| Data supporting the results on projected coastal flood risk investment needs | |
| Projections by EurEau on costs of compliance with DWD and UWWTD | |
| Assessment of RBIs and RFIs to finance flood protection |
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