Our water policies must include adaptation strategies that strengthen ecosystems and help us cope with it. This is why the EU domestic water responses concentrates on the sustainable management of water resources, using an integrated management approach, covering both water quantity and quality.
Eurocommissar Janez Potocnik points out the key policy is the EU Water Framework Directive. It takes into account the fact that all our waters are connected, that we use water for all kinds of human activities. Most Europeans live in transboundary river basins – and this is why we take the "River Basin" approach. Water boundaries – as you can imagine – are fluid. And this is the only logical way to manage them.
There is good international cooperation happening already, through international river commissions. Among the 14 countries who share the Danube and the 9 along the Rhine, for example. These are examples of good practice that are worth sharing.
Potocnik notes the Directive is a new direction in EU water management. And now 10 years after its adoption, we have now reached a crucial time in the implementation of the Directive with the adoption of the River Basin Management Plans. The plans set out the measures aimed at achieving good water status by 2015 and we will need to implement them.
There are still many challenges. Things like integration into agriculture, transport and energy policies; to the application of effective water pricing policies. We have to fight waste through new smart incentives. Water pricing in agriculture based on a fixed amount per irrigated hectare - rather than on actual volume of water consumption – just to give one example – is not the right way to do things.
Potocnik points out the EU Strategy on Water Scarcity & Droughts complements the Directive. It stresses the importance of a water hierarchy: water demand management should come first and alternative supply options should only be considered once the potential for water savings and efficiency has been exhausted.
Integrated water policy management flows throughout the broader European policies too. The European Commission flagship initiative on resource efficiency, which is currently developing under the EU 2020 Strategy, makes water saving measures and increasing water efficiency a priority.
In response to the growing impact of climate change, we adopted a White Paper on how we can adapt better to it, last year. This highlights the need to increase the resilience of health, property and the productive functions of land to climate change, by improving the management of water resources and ecosystems.
Of course, successful adaptation to the impacts of climate change on water resources does not depend only on effective water policy. Agriculture, regional, energy, industrial, transport and research policies – to name a few – all contribute to water protection in their own way. This is an essential extension of the integrated approach. And if we do not involve everyone who has a role to play, then we may as well not bother at all.
20th Century has brought us the great acceleration. We experienced a fourfold growth in population; a fortyfold growth in economic output. But we also increased our use of fossil fuels 16 times, our fishing catches 35 times, our water use 10 times and our carbon emissions 17 times!
Basil Venitis, twitter.com/Venitis, has proven that climate change is heliogenic, not anthropogenic. Nevertheless, carbonmonger kleptocrats, using buzzwords like carbon footprint and clean energy, are growing a socialist movement that won't actually benefit Gaia, but will make our lives miserable, spread by the cancer of socialism. Temperature fluctuations are only due to Sun cycles, but are used as an antivenitist instrument, not a real object of interest for socialists who camouflage the environmental game.
Venitis declares government is the greatest polluter. This polluter literally gets away with murder because of sovereign immunity. We should make government as responsible for its actions as everyone else is expected to be. Venitists protect the environment by first abolishing sovereign immunity. By turning to government for environmental protection, we've placed the fox in charge of the hen house! Governments control over 40% of land mass. Unfortunately, government's stewardship over our land is gradually destroying it.
Venitis asserts the best way to save the environment is vasectomy. Vasectomy is a minor surgical procedure where the two sperm tubes of a man are cut and tied, preventing sperm from entering the seminal stream. Deadly viruses are Gaia's antibiotics against the cancer of overpopulation. When Venitis was born in 1945, there were only two billion people on Earth, but now there are six and a half billion people. Within just half century, the human population has tripled! Venitis has done his duty to mother Gaia, he had vasectomy when he was only 25 years old, and he never regretted!
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