1. Water economics State-of-play of ongoing studies Lie Heymans
Meeting of the Strategic Co-ordination Group
Brussels, 8 November 2018
Lie Heymans
European Commission
Directorate-General for Environment (DG ENV)
Unit C1 « Clean Water»

2. BLUE2 Part A close to being finalised
Part A: The economics of EU water policy
Part B: Development of an integrated method for the socio-economic assessment of policies
A2: The value of water in the EU economy
A3: A methodology for testing the costs and benefits of measures
A4A: Assessment of the Water Productivity Index
A4B: The economic impact of different water allocation options

3. OECD study on investment needs Phase 2 just kicked off
Scope:
Water supply and sanitation: quantification and projections
Floods: qualitative assessment
Phase 1: Assessment of investment needs and means to finance these
=> MS consulted on fact sheets (workshop May 2018)
Phase 2: Deepening of understanding in some particular MS and bringing actors together
=> 10 MS workshops (09/ /2019)
Finalisation:
06/2019: EC/OECD regional roundtable on investment needs and financing strategies in the water sector
Q3 2019: Publication final report

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