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www.oecd.org/water
Availability of water of the right quality, at the right time and place to meet environmental, economic and human needs requires active water resources management.
To assist policymakers in addressing this challenge, the OECD is working on policy responses in the following areas:
Related work can be found under the following policy areas:
The OECD has published several synthesis reports ont water management, and regularly analyses the experience of its member countries in the framework of the OECD programme on Environmental Performance Reviews.
Financing water resources management
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Policy coherence
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Information for water management
Recent OECD work has highlighted the need for improving the information base on which water policy decisions are made. As part of its broader effort on environmental data and indicators, the OECD regularly collects information on several aspects of water management.
In addition, the OECD will organise in 2010 a workshop on addressing the information needs of water policymakers.
Water pricing
Pricing is a major tool for managing water resources. Pricing water as a resource act as an incentive for water service providers to contain their demand for water. Similarly, pricing water services provides incentives to final consumers to reduce their consumption of water resources. Past OECD work on water pricing is reflected in the following publications.
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