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"In 2006 and early 2007, the Commission carried out an in-depth assessment of water scarcity and droughts in the European Union. Following this assessment, the Commission presented an initial set of policy options to increase water efficiency and water savings in a communication from the Commission on ‘Addressing the challenge of water scarcity and droughts in the European Union’. That was published in July 2007.
Seven policy options were identified for tackling water scarcity and drought issues: putting the right price tag on water, allocating water and water-related funding more efficiently, improving drought risk management, considering additional water supply infrastructures, fostering water-efficient technologies and practices, fostering the emergence of a water-saving culture in Europe, and how to improve knowledge and data collection. These were the seven elements.
Based on information from Member States and on its own research, the Commission prepares annual follow-up reports that assess the implementation of these policy options throughout the European Union. The Commission is also implementing the White Paper ‘Adapting to climate change: Towards a European framework for action’. A further communication on mainstreaming adaptation and mitigation into the key EU policies is foreseen next year.
Furthermore, the Commission intends to launch by 2012 a blueprint for Europe’s waters which will be based on a review of the implementation of the Water Framework Directive, a review of the water scarcity and droughts policy and a review of the vulnerability of water resources to climate change.
In order to prepare this blueprint, the Commission is launching a number of activities, including a pilot project on the development of prevention activities to halt desertification in Europe and an integrated assessment study of the vulnerability of European water resources to climate change and adaptation measures.
Droughts and desertification are also addressed by measures through sectoral policies such as rural development under the common agricultural policy and through cohesion policy."@en1
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