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Maintain or enhance water quality and quantity to ensure water security

  • Water quality
  • Water Quantity
  • Water Security

River basin organisations need to maintain or enhance water quality and quantity to ensure water security

Need characteristics

Societal challenges
  • Water security
Themes
Supply sufficient drinking water of good quality to protect population health
Sub themes
Information on freshwater quality, quantity and localisation
Stakeholder group
  • River Basin Organisations (RBOs)
Task/Job
  • Maintenance or enhancement of water quantity and quality
Pain
  • Algal blooms
  • Eutrophication
  • Water pollution
Gain
  • Availability of management tools
  • Techniques and knowledge to maintain & enhance water quantity and quality
Simplified climate and water scenarios
  • Dryer
  • Sea-level rise
  • Wetter & Dryer