Governance innovations for a transition to sustainable and equitable water use in Europe

Project Information

GOVAQUA

Grant agreement ID: 101086578

DOI

10.3030/101086578

EC signature date 10 November 2022

Start date 1 February 2023

End date 31 January 2027

Funded under

• Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment

Total cost

€ 3 003 645,00

EU contribution

€ 3 003 645,00

Coordinated by

SUOMEN YMPARISTOKESKUS
Finland

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Deliverables

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

GOVAQUA website

Project website, updated throughout the project

Documents, reports (9)

GOVAQUA policy matrix

Review of national policy contexts on sustainable and equitable water use

GOVAQUA WP2 good practice inventory

Good practices of innovative legislative and regulatory instruments

GOVAQUA assessment tool for water governance innovations v2

Tool for assessing innovative water governance approaches and instruments in sub-basin/basin context v2

GOVAQUA living lab design

Process design for living labs of water governance innovations

GOVAQUA WP4 review

Review and identification of innovative economic and financial instruments

GOVAQUA WP5 good practice inventory

Good practices of digital tools and data to support information sharing at multiple levels in water governance

GOVAQUA systemic comparison of cases

QCA approach and application to systemically compare sustainable water governance

GOVAQUA WP4 good practice inventory

Cross-case comparison report of innovative economic and financial instruments: good practices of innovative economic and financial instruments

GOVAQUA WP5 review

Review of digital solutions for information sharing

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (5)

Enhancing water efficiency: Distribution efficiency and consumption synergies

Author(s): Esther Díaz-Cano, Julio Berbel, Nazaret M. Montilla-López, Alfonso Expósito
Published in: Water Resources and Economics, Issue 50, 2025, ISSN 2212-4284
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.WRE.2025.100260

Economic Valuation of Ancestral Artificial Aquifer Recharge Systems in High Mountain Environments of Sierra Nevada, Spain

Author(s): Wilber Vargas, Julio Berbel, Sandra del Aguila, Esther Díaz-Cano
Published in: Water, Issue 17, 2025, ISSN 2073-4441
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/W17101413

Innovations for Stakeholder Engagement in Water Governance: A Systematic Literature Review From a Sustainability Transition Perspective

Author(s): Anne Ellermann, Gül Özerol, Joanne Vinke‐de Kruijf, César Casiano Flores, Vuokko Laukka, Ulf Stein, Suvi Sojamo, Rob Collins
Published in: Environmental Policy and Governance, 2026, ISSN 1756-932X
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/EET.70066

The Potential use of Reclaimed Water for Irrigation Purposes: Is it Overestimated?

Author(s): Alfonso Expósito, Esther Díaz-Cano, Julio Berbel
Published in: Water Resources Management, Issue 38, 2024, ISSN 0920-4741
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/S11269-024-03878-W

What controls current and future background vulnerability of rivers to eutrophication and pathogens?

Author(s): Michael Hutchins, Emma Gardner, Lisa Gechelle, Andrew Johnson, Yueming Qu, Dinara Sadykova, Michael Bowes, Daniel Read, Claire Robertson
Published in: Journal of Hydrology, Issue 665, 2026, ISSN 0022-1694
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.JHYDROL.2025.134713

Book chapters (2)

Taxonomía de los instrumentos económicos aplicados para la gestión sostenible del agua

Author(s): Nazaret Montilla-Lope, Esther Díaz-Cano, Julio Berbel
Published in: Seguridad Hídrica, 2023, ISBN 978-84-1302-234-5
Publisher: Universitat d’Alacant

Taxonomía y análisis de los instrumentos económicos de la política de aguas como impulsores de la transición hacia la sostenibilidad

Author(s): Esther Diaz-Cano, Nazaret Montilla-Lopez, Julio Berbel
Published in: Estrategias de los sistemas agroalimentarios ante los desafíos globales, 2023, ISBN 978-84-09-55693-9
Publisher: Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Agroalimentaria de Aragón