3.     Status, trends and projections

This chapter will be based on the background documents of ETC/ICM and ETC/CCA and their on-going developments.

It will contain facts and numbers form existing studies to set the scene with what happened/happens. It deals with drivers, pressures, state and impact. It will be the knowledge base used in the following chapters of this report where necessary actions are proposed. The projects developed by the Commission as e.g. ClimWaterAdapt, ENSEMBLES or LISFLOOD and on “water retention potential” will feed into this assessment.