Water for life – LIFE for water

More than 150 delegates attended the European Commission’s LIFE Environment water conference, "Water for life – LIFE for Water" , which took place in Brussels on the 15 October 2009, providing a successful platform for transferring experience in EU water management.
The conference specifically disseminated results of LIFE projects and illustrated how the EU LIFE programme supports the implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive and the Marine Strategy Framework Directive. Good practices and experiences from 12 different LIFE water-related projects targeting water scarcity, river engineering, eutrophication and the recently adopted Marine Strategy were presented and discussed.

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Programme

Presentations

A series of four workshops allowed participants to discuss ‘best practice’ approaches to practical and policy based actions.

On the following pages you will find the presentations given during the following sessions:

• Session : Adaptation to climate change – how can intelligent water resource management help fight water scarcity?
• Session : Hydromorphological alterations – how can technical interventions in rivers be linked to ecological river restoration?
• Session : Eutrophication – how can diffuse sources of nutrients and remaining point sources be tackled effectively?
• Session : The Marine Strategy Framework Directive – how can proven collaborative governance techniques help in implementing the MSFD?

A compilation of abstracts on the presentations and biographies of the conference speakers is also available online.