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German funding measure ReWaM

The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) launched the funding measure ‘Regional Water Resources Management for Sustainable Protection of Waters in Germany’ (ReWaM) in 2015, with almost 30 million € within the framework of the funding priority ‘Sustainable Water Management’ (NaWaM). The projects’ funding period will end in 2018 or 2019.

The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) launched the funding measure ‘Regional Water Resources Management for Sustainable Protection of Waters in Germany’ (ReWaM) in 2015, with almost 30 million € within the framework of the funding priority ‘Sustainable Water Management’ (NaWaM). The projects’ funding period will end in 2018 or 2019.

Fifteen projects have been conducting research since 2015. All projects address the diverse challenges of regional water re­sources management in model regions. The model regions are located throughout the entire Federal Republic of Germany. This allows the transfer of the research findings to other regions in Germany and to neighbouring European countries. The final results and key messages of each project are presented in the project brochure and twelve positions for policy makers and water managers are summarized in the policy paper “New ways to Water Protection”. These insights are especially significant in view of the Europe-wide review process of the WFD which is currently being implemented.