Integrated water management in shared water resources: The EU Water Framework Directive implementation in Greece

Mylopoulos, Y.; Kolokytha, Elpida

doi:10.1016/j.pce.2008.02.031

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“…At the time of writing, the scholarly community has not taken many steps to look into the transboundary aspect of WFD implementation. We have 33 studies studying RBDs, a vast majority of those RBDs being transboundary, but only one study (Mylopoulos and Kolokytha 2008) addresses this issue by studying both sides of a Greek-Bulgarian basin. All other studies remain on "their" side of the river; Meyer and Thiel (2012), for instance, study the German part of the Odra basin and ignore the Polish part.…”

Section: Mapping Scholarly Interest: Countries Policy Levels Themesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Studying the implementation of the Water Framework Directive in Europe: a meta-analysis of 89 journal articles

Boeuf¹,

Fritsch²

2016

E&S

109

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ABSTRACT. The Water Framework Directive (WFD) is arguably the most ambitious piece of European Union (EU) legislation in the field of water. The directive defines a general framework for integrated river basin management in Europe with a view to achieving "good water status" by 2015. Institutional novelties include, among others, water management at hydrological scales, the involvement of nonstate actors in water planning, and various economic principles, as well as a common strategy to support EU member states during the implementation of the directive. More than 15 years after the adoption of the WFD, and with the passing of an important milestone, 2015, we believe it is time for an interim assessment. This article provides a systematic review of existing scholarship on WFD implementation. We identify well-documented areas of research, describe largely unchartered territories, and suggest avenues for future studies. Methodologically, we relied on a meta-analysis. Based on a codebook of more than 35 items, we analyzed 89 journal articles reporting on the implementation of the directive in EU member states. Our review is organized around three major themes. The first is "who, when, and where"; we explore publication patterns, thereby looking into authors, timelines, and target journals. The second is "what"; we analyze the object of study in our source articles with a particular focus on case study countries, policy levels, the temporal stage of WFD implementation, and if the directive was not studied in its entirety, the aspect of the WFD that received scholarly attention. The third is "how," i.e., theoretical and methodological choices made when studying the WFD.

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Section: Mapping Scholarly Interest: Countries Policy Levels Themesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Studying the implementation of the Water Framework Directive in Europe: a meta-analysis of 89 journal articles

Boeuf¹,

Fritsch²

2016

E&S

109

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“…It is a prominent example of integrated water policy, based on a river basin approach (Mylopoulos and Kolokytha, 2008) and it institutionalizes ecosystem-based objectives as the overriding criteria in water policy and decisionmaking, effectively formalizing the environment as a user of water and establishing it on an almost equal footing with other human economic activities (Kallis and Butler, 2001). Every river basin management plan must not only identify sources of surface water pollution, but must also review the impact of human activities, including growth and urbanization, on surface and ground waters, affecting land use and spatial development as well.…”

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Implementation of the European Water Framework Directive: Integration of hydrological and regional planning at the Segura River Basin, southeast Spain

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“…2, were determined as the fraction of deep infiltration of the precipitation, considering: (i) the Kessler method (1965) in areas of carbonate rock outcrops and (ii) the semi-empirical formulae of Coutagne (1954), Turc (1954) and Thornthwaite (1948), the latter combined with transient soil water balance/storage models, to calculate real evapotranspiration in areas of sedimentary deposits. During the implementation of regional flow models in the Algarve, the accuracy of these recharge estimates, first performed in the 1980s (Almeida, 1985) was improved, due to: i) the improved accuracy of the geometric representation of the lithological outcrops, based on more recent available information of geologic maps; ii) the improved accuracy and spatial resolution of rainfall, through the implementation of advanced methods, namely kriging with external drift on an orthogonal grid with a resolution of 1 km 2 , with elevation proving to be the most representative auxiliary variable (Nicolau, 2002). The new recharge estimates were validated with the FAO dual crop coefficient method (Allen et al, 1998), taking into account parameters such as daily precipitation, soil texture, moisture content and vegetation cover (Monteiro et al, 2007a;Mendes Oliveira et al, 2008) and resulting in a 3% higher estimated recharge.…”

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“…for integrated river basin management to simulate the economic impacts of policies in drought periods (Characklis et al, 1999;Booker et al, 2005), to quantify the economic value of stream flow (PulidoVelazquez et al, 2006(PulidoVelazquez et al, , 2008, for policy options and water allocation (Letcher et al, 2004), for trade-offs between competing uses (Burke et al, 2004), for analysis of the impact of climatic changes (Tanaka et al, 2006), and for trade-offs between efficiency, equity and sustainability in the design of water programs (Ward and Pulido-Velazquez, 2008). IWRM drives individual sectors to coordinate actions and collaborate with each other and enhances stakeholder participation, transparency and cost effective local management (Mylopoulos and Kolokytha, 2008). The objectives of IWRM for socio-economic development and sustainable development require the adoption of three key policy principles (Postel, 1992): i) equity, i.e., water is a basic need and no human can live without a minimum amount and quality;…”

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Screening of sustainable groundwater sources for integration into a regional drought-prone water supply system

Stigter¹,

Monteiro

Nunes

et al. 2009

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. This paper reports on the qualitative and quantitative screening of groundwater sources for integration into the public water supply system of the Algarve, Portugal. The results are employed in a decision support system currently under development for an integrated water resources management scheme in the region. Such a scheme is crucial for several reasons, including the extreme seasonal and annual variations in rainfall, the effect of climate change on more frequent and long-lasting droughts, the continuously increasing water demand and the high risk of a single-source water supply policy. The latter was revealed during the severe drought of 2004 and 2005, when surface reservoirs were depleted and the regional water demand could not be met, despite the drilling of emergency wells.For screening and selection, quantitative criteria are based on aquifer properties and well yields, whereas qualitative criteria are defined by water quality indices. These reflect the well's degree of violation of drinking water standards for different sets of variables, including toxicity parameters, nitrate and chloride, iron and manganese and microbiological parameters. Results indicate the current availability of at least 1100 l s −1 of high quality groundwater (55% of the regional demand), requiring only disinfection (900 l s −1 ) or basic treatment, prior to human consumption. These groundwater withdrawals are sustainable when compared to mean annual recharge, considering that at least 40% is preserved for ecological demands. A more accurate and comprehensive analysis of sustainability is performed with the help of steady-state and transient groundwater flow simulations, which account for aquifer geometry, boundary conditions, recharge and discharge rates, pumping activity and seasonCorrespondence to: T. Y. Stigter (tibor.stigter@ist.utl.pt) ality. They permit an advanced analysis of present and future scenarios and show that increasing water demands and decreasing rainfall will make the water supply system extremely vulnerable, with a high risk of groundwater salinization and ecosystem degradation.

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Integrated water management in shared water resources: The EU Water Framework Directive implementation in Greece

Cited by 28 publications

References 2 publications

Studying the implementation of the Water Framework Directive in Europe: a meta-analysis of 89 journal articles

Studying the implementation of the Water Framework Directive in Europe: a meta-analysis of 89 journal articles

Implementation of the European Water Framework Directive: Integration of hydrological and regional planning at the Segura River Basin, southeast Spain

Screening of sustainable groundwater sources for integration into a regional drought-prone water supply system

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