The Urban Water Agenda 2030 – a joint initiative of the European Commission and local governments to safeguard water resources in Europe.

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Urban Water Agenda 2030

While providing a range of water-related services to their citizens and taking care of urban water systems, the majority of local governments in Europe are also critical stakeholders in the implementation of the European Union water policy that is aiming at a good status of all water bodies.

But local governments are also confronted with numerous pressures on their water sector, among them:

• An ageing infrastructure in water, waste water and stormwater management systems;
• Inefficiencies caused by water leakages, over-abstraction, and wastewater treatment effluents;
• Impacts of climate change, including an increasing occurrence of extreme floods and droughts and more widespread water scarcity;
• A deteriorating water quality due to primary substances, pharmaceuticals, and upstream agricultural pollution.

The Urban Water Agenda 2030 process acknowledges the essential role of cities in water resources management. It is an initiative to encourage, support and enable local governments and their water utilities to take voluntary action for complementing Member States' efforts to meet EU water policy.

While the Urban Water Agenda 2030 initiative has been discussed at several events in 2016 and is being further developed in a consultation process led by ICLEI and EUROCITIES is being developed in the years 2016/2017, it will be rolled out to stimulate political commitment and tangible action for sustainable urban water management among local governments and their water utilities across the European Union from 2018 on.

More information about the Urban Water Agenda 2030: http://urbanwateragenda2030.eu/.

Contact the Urban Water Agenda 2030 at ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability for more information: water@iclei.org