Official presentation of the IWA-INBO methodological handbook on governance between urban areas and river basins

This guide was conceived as a means of supporting the reflection on the sustainable city already underway, but still too sectorial and focused on urban specificities, without achieving the required optimisation in terms of costs, resilience of water resources, preservation of biodiversity, risk management, etc.

For IWA and INBO, the establishment of a "city-basin dialogue" is a mechanism to move towards sustainable water management: different stakeholders can be engaged in identifying and implementing appropriate and sustainable solutions for effective multi-level governance of cities and basins.

This connection finally aims to improve awareness and protection of water sources within and beyond urban boundaries, to maintain the quantity and quality of water resources and to prepare for extreme events and climate change impacts.

This "city-basin" guide is not an end in itself and will continue to be developed by collecting more "basin stories" and presenting it at the various international events in which the two structures take part. On the other hand, IWA is interested in carrying out concrete activities involving its members on topics such as information systems, adaptation to climate change, governance, NBS, IWRM and deepening the "city-basin" dialogue.