Date: Wed 20 Aug 2025, 12:30 – 13:15 UK
The Foundation for Water Research (FWR) is hosting a webinar on Water Framework Directive economics 25 years on: From promise to practice – and the case for reform.
The webinar will present a review of the economic provisions of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) by an informal group of independent European water economists, who in 2000 worked together to develop the Wateco Guidance for the economic analysis for the WFD. It documents their 25 years practical experience with WFD implementation.
The speaker Jonathan Fisher will provide the historical context to the WFD from water policies in the 1980s; then set out the economic provisions of the WFD, which was the first EU Directive to incorporate economic analysis and instruments.This will be followed by an overview of a SWOT analysis of their implementation that provides the basis for recommending specific refinements of the WFD, and can hopefully support water policy reforms.
For the EU this could inform the EC Water Resilience Strategy and for England and Wales can support the findings and recommendations of the Cunliffe Independent Water Commission.
For more details and to register see HERE.
