The active involvement of the population in the development and updating of Hydrographic Districts management plans derives from Article 14 of the WFD and Article 10 of the Floods Directive. To understand if and how this is implemented at the Hydrographic District level, in Italy we have visited the websites of the eight Italian Hydrographic Districts (legislative decree n° 152 of 3rd April 2006). Moreover various European projects (LIFE +, INTERREG, etc.) have involved the p

In November 2017 the Italian Ministry of Environment and Protection of the Territory and the Sea and the Italian Delegation in the Alpine Convention published a report called: RIVER CONTRACTS IN ITALY (AND BEYOND THE BORDER). (http://www.minambiente.it/sites/default/files/archivio/allegati/convenzionealpi/rapporto_Convenzione_Alpi_novembre2017.pdf) River Contracts were introduced in Europe and in Italy following the Second World Water Council, as strategic planning and negoti

According to the Water Framework Directive (WFD), each EU Member State is asked to develop its own methodology for the assessment of the hydromorphological status of rivers, to include with biological and chemical-physical characteristics in the estimate of the rivers Ecological Status [...]. Download #ENG #WFD #ISPRA #REFORMproject #water

In a meeting held at the Italian Ministry of the Environment on April 17, 2018, the Italian institute for research and protection of the environment (Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale-ISPRA presented the guidelines of specific objectives for waterbodies falling within protected area. Produced by a working group made up of ISPRA and by the Ministry of the Environment (DG Protection of Nature and of the Sea) with the collaboration of SOGESID, the Gui

Eighteen years have passed since the entry into force of the Water Framework Directive. We therefore want to take the opportunity of this anniversary and of the 2018 World Water Day to look at the level of information inserted in Italian regional websites concerning the degree of implementation that this directive has achieved in Italy. To this end, we have focused on information on four aspects considered fundamental, such as the adoption and development of the River Contrac