Water directors are meeting today in Ghent. We urge them to protect our water legislation and to ask their governments not to add new exemptions to the Water Framework Directive.

🚨 BREAKING: We have the EU Nature Restoration Law! Member States have just adopted the game-changing law for Europe's degraded ecosystems It's a huge win for the EU's nature, citizens & the economy and the people behind the #RestoreNature campaign! Thank you all 💚

Member States are about to greenlight the introduction of new exemptions in the Water Framework Directive allowing them to pollute water more. Read more (in 🇫🇷) in Contexte Environnement👉 contexte.com/article/enviro…

Today Member States adopted an agreement allowing themselves to derogate further from water protection rules. We are calling on the new European Parliament and European Commission not to let this happen. Read more 👇

Floods devastate lives, nature & the economy. In 🇩🇪, recent floods led to 6 deaths & at least €100 million in emergency funding for uninsured people. Did you know restoring rivers to their natural flow can limit flood damage? Find out more on 2 July!👇 wwf.eu/wwf_news/event…

Floods can spell disaster for farmers 🌾. In 🇬🇷in 2020, flooding led to €1 billion in economic losses. This 2 July, hear Maria Koufopoulou tell the story of living through floods & learn solutions. 👉Join the #Rivers2Restore event in Brussels⤵️ wwf.eu/wwf_news/event…

"Nature restoration is not an option, it should be an imperative also for the industry." says Michal Wiezik MEP at the launch of the #Rivers2Restore report by WWF EU. Find more about our report: wwf.eu/?14185866/Rive…

Strong statement from Maria Koufopoulou on the devastating impact of the flooding on farmers in her region and how river restoration can help to prevent future events from happening! #RestoreNature #Rivers2Restore

Jutta Paulus EU Environment Thank you to all our speakers and participants in person & online for a fantastic launch of #Rivers2Restore! We invite you to read the report - and let's get our rivers flowing freely across Europe once more🌊👇 wwf.eu/?14185866/Rive…

In case you missed it: the last report of #FranceStratégie on reindustrialisation in 🇫🇷 showed that water abstraction and consumption could 'substantially increase' in most of the scenarios, if no progress in efficiency is made @Strategie_Gouv. Link: contexte.com/medias/pdf/med…

⚠️Devastating hydropower project listed for priority EU investment despite major social, economic, and environmental concerns. WWF, CEE Bankwatch Network and 36 other environmental organizations across Europe urge EU decision makers to withdraw support for the Turnu Măgurele -

Water is at the center of most of the priorities of the upcoming mandate: competitiveness, resilience, circular economy. Read the recommendations of the Living Rivers Europe NGOs coalition on how to protect it, and mainstream it in the policy agenda 👇

Everywhere in the world, wildlife is disappearing from our rivers and lakes, more than from any other ecosystems. We cannot afford loosing this wildlife. There is no other way than functional freshwater ecosystems for providing water.

Science is clear: we have not manage to improve the overall state of freshwater ecosystems, which are the source of our water. Let's get serious about safeguarding rivers, lakes & groundwater. We need them more than ever for supporting our livelihoods, under a changing climate.

Adapting to climate change seems such a complex task that it's difficult to see where to start. Read our new paper & find 5 principles for action, which should guide climate adaptation in 🇪🇺 👇 RedCrossEU CAN EUROPE Greenpeace EU UNDRR Europe & Central Asia ICLEI Europe E3G - Third Generation Environmentalism Insurance Europe

Very sad to see that EU institutions are delaying action to better protect citizens against water pollution. ENVI Committee Press we need trilogues to start as soon as possible on this important matter.

Insightful post by WWF Water 💧🐟 about DANA and how to reduce the consequences of future floods by using nature - link.medium.com/lZJVwkglmOb

No #WaterResilience without clean water❗️ But European Parliament is delaying needed updates to #ProtectWater 🔴 We call on MEPs to listen to the vast majority of Europeans demanding more EU action on water pollution and start the #trilogue negotiations on EU water pollution standards