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5.1.2.      Responses

The communication from the European Commission ‘Addressing the challenges of water scarcity and drought in the European Union’ (EC 2007b) is the primary policy document guiding effort in the EU to combat water scarcity and drought. The communication defines overarching policy options of which several are related to water economics and resource efficiency (see also section 2.2). Resource efficiency is seen as an important measure to reduce vulnerability, and is dealt with in detail in EEA (2012a). Other policy options deal with water allocation, drought risk management and improved knowledge and data collection.