The Water Framework Directive in practice

Factsheets on WFD Implementation

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The factsheets are grouped by their focus:

• Public participation
• Wet buffer zones (see below)
• Rainwater Management
• Paludiculture
• Floodplain Development
• Water pricing
• Water structure improvement (see below)
• Water maintenance
• Landscape water balance (see below)
• Reduction of diffuse nutrient inputs (see below)

Here you will find all factsheets at a glance.

• Public participation
  1. Microplastics in our water (2019)
• Wet buffer zones
  1. Natural Climate Buffers in the Netherlands (2019)
  2. Intelligent Buffer Zones (2019)
• Rainwater Management
  1. Stormwater Management in Urban Areas (2019)
• Paludiculture
  1. Rewetting and farming degraded peatlands (2019)
• Floodplain development
  1. North Rhine-Westphalia Floodplain Program
• Water pricing
  1. Application of Water-Taxes in the Federal State of Schleswig-Holstein (Germany)
• Water structure improvement
  1. Bristled Fish Pass
  2. River System Project Ruwer
• Water maintenance
  1. In-Stream-Restoration
• Landscape water balance / Marsh protection
  1. Large-scale Conservation Project Uckermärkische Lakes
  2. Black Alder Afforestation on Restored Fens in the Trebel Valley
  3. Improving Landscape Water Management in the Stechlin Lake Area
• Reduction of diffuse nutrient inputs
  1. Wetland rehabilitation: The benefits of green filter in Albufera (2019)
  2. Restoration of Aquatic Ecosystems, Wetlands and Buffer Zones within an intensive Farming Area in the Po Valley (2019)
  3. Water Friendly Farming in Leipzig`s Water Protection Zone

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