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Based on the analysis of significant pressures and drivers affecting water bodies in the latest (second) RBMPs, the following European key water management challenges have been selected for presentation in this report:

• Pollution pressures – includes point source pollution, diffuse source pollution including scattered dwellings and pollution pressures from mining,
• Hydromorphological pressures – includes issues related to barriers, loss of lateral connectivity, pressures from hydropower and pressures from inland navigation,
• Abstractions and water scarcity,
• Aquaculture, and
• Invasive alien species.

European key water management challenges were selected that affect a sufficiently large share of European water bodies and that were long time important enough to develop a rather solid basis of knowledge and information to describe the scope of the issue at European level (see section 3 for more information).

This EEA report also discusses cross-cutting issues of EU-wide relevance to measures implementation for addressing the main drivers and pressures of European key water management challenges. These cross-cutting issues are discussed with emphasis on their role in improving and accelerating the implementation of measures to achieve the WFD objective of good status for European waters. The European Commission published in 2019 the evaluation of water legislation – the Fitness Check and this provides the main directions for revisions and future water policies[1]. 

[1]  European Commissions, EU Water Legislation - Fitness Check https://ec.europa.eu/environment/water/fitness_check_of_the_eu_water_legislation/index_en.htm