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Balanced water? Challenges for strategic water management

Reference number
Coordinator Göteborgsregionens Kommunalförbund
Funding from Vinnova SEK 481 900
Project duration November 2024 - May 2025
Status Ongoing
Venture Impact Innovation Water Wave Societies - Programme-specific interventions
Call Impact Innovation: Collaboration for Sustainable water for all - a Water Wise Societies programme intervention 2024

Important results from the project

A roadmap for the system transformation to achieve the vision of sustainable and equitable water distribution: (1) utilization and sharing and complementation of data, (2) investigation of water needs, (3) models for water balance and water budget, (4) collaborative processes around equitable distribution and prioritization, (5) economic and legal instruments, and (6) communication and democratic anchoring. In addition, a partnership has been established that can jointly drive the work forward.

Expected long term effects

Implementing the roadmap for system transformation that we have outlined in the project creates the conditions for better decision-making for a fair distribution of withdrawals from water resources and sustainable water management.

Approach and implementation

Gap analysis in a series of digital workshops identified knowledge and development needs. Foresight with concretization of future activities through a back-casting method was applied. In a physical full-day workshop, dependencies between knowledge areas were analyzed on a timeline; clustering in four continuation areas with suggestions for activities; norm-creative exercise around needs and perspectives. Results, conclusions and recommendations were concretized in group work, and agreed upon.

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Last updated 3 July 2025

Reference number 2024-02778