Climate change impacts on the water cycle, resources and quality
National Administrative Agreement on Water
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In The autumn of 2000 parts of Holland had to deal with heavy rainfall. Water was on the streets and in the houses. Water managers and politicians felt a sense of urgency. The National Administrative Agreement on Water is being put into practice and that means a new water management policy in the 21st century. The Spatial Policy Document is having a major impact on its implementation and addresses the water issues. A key planning decision entitled ‘Room for the Rivers’, the Maaswerken project, the Integrated Water Act and a new policy on coastal areas are all examples of how we are handling water differently. The national task for provincial and local authorities and property developers is: retain water in the area where it falls as rain, store it if it is no longer possible to retain it and, as the final option, drain it away. Water impact assessment of spatial plans will ensure that authorities’ plans include details of how they intend to deal with the water issue, and how they will ensure the problem does not simply get passed on. If developments are knowingly built in unsuitable locations, those who took the decisions will be held responsible. This agreement prescribed (concepts for) standards for the allowed frequency for water inconvenience (not safety). With the climate scenario’s as input the Dutch water boards calculated the frequency of flooding due to rainfall according the climate scenario’s. The map shows the results of the confrontation between the modelling results and the concept standards. From the green grids more than 50% of the area suffers a frequency that’s to high and measurements are necessary. At this moment tere are already more than 300 running projects. For the whole operation the water boards need an amount of 2,5 billion euros until 2015. 
Room for the river In the middle ages we started to build dikes to protect larger areas and thus created our polders. Over the years we perfected the art of dike or in your terms levee construction. Now at the beginning of the 21st century more than half of the Netherlands should flood without dikes. After more than two generations without serious threats, flooding occurred in 1993 and 1995. This time we survived without serious damage or losses of life, but only just. We realized that this could not go on forever. Our government changed tack and developed a long-term view that allows more room for the river. The policy and the project were labelled: ‘Room for the River’ Agenda INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS ON THE WATER CYCLE, RESOURCES AND QUALITY- Research-Policy interface Brussels, 25-26 September 2006 Co-organised by: Directorate-General for Research (Environment-Climate Unit), Directorate-General for Environment (Protection of Water and Marine Environment Unit) and Directorate-General Joint Research Centre (Institute for Environment and Sustainability) European Commission Directory: webdav -> CircaBC -> env -> wfd -> Library -> working groups env -> Member State fact sheet: France Integrated coastal management and climate change adaptation env -> National Summary for Article 12 env -> Natura 2000 Seminars Atlantic Biogeographic Region Case Studies env -> Convention on the conservation of european wildlife and natural habitats working groups -> Ibuprofen pnec derivation June 2015 env -> Directorate-general env -> Aquaculture guidance second draft comments and case studies received from ad hoc group env -> Potential amendment E11 – Preparation of scrap metal Download 8.19 Mb. Share with your friends:
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