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Needs for integrated policy responses

Mainstreaming water considerations into other environmental and sectoral policies and finding synergies across them are key to enabling sustainable water management and reducing society’s exposure and vulnerability to water stress. The recent WFD fitness check has highlighted that one of the key factors contributing to the effectiveness of the EU water directives in progressing towards their objectives were the (binding) cross-references to the WFD’s objectives in other EU policies.