The 5th European Water Conference #EUWater2018 organised by the Austrian Presidency of the EU and DG Environment of the European Commission begins tomorrow in Vienna, Austria.

The chair person of our Joint Working Group on the Water Framework Directive, Anders Finnson, will participate on a panel on ‘Europe’s Water Today’ ( pdf click for Anders' presentation (1.06 MB) ) together with Ronan Uhel, Head of Natural System and Sustainability, European Environment Agency and Bettina Doeser, Head of Unit, European Commission, DG Environment. The session will be moderated by Veronica Manfredi, Director, European Commission, DG Environment.

The session begins at 9.30am and you can view it live on https://ec.streaming.at/20180920.

The conference continues on Friday.

More information is at: https://ec.europa.eu/info/events/eu-water-conference-2018_en.

@EU2018AT - Austrian Presidency

@EU_ENV – European Commission’s DG Environment

@eureau – EurEau

@AndersFinnson – Anders Finnson, speaker

Event hashtag #CleanWaterEU

Our position paper on the need for better policy coordination on the Water Framework Directive is here, while you can read about cost recovery in the WFD here.