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The OECD Environmental Outlook to 2050: The Consequences of Inaction focuses on the four items identified as most pressing in previous OECD work. Water is one of them. The Outlook documents increasing competition between water users to access the resource. Farmers, and the environment, will have to compete with cities, energy suppliers, and several industries, to get the water they need. This create new risks (if any water user does not have access to the volume and quality of water it needs) and trade-offs (how should water be allocated between competing users?). OECD work on water aims at facilitating the reform of water policies, so that they are better attuned to these and related challenges.

Policy areas

Publications

• Water Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Multi-level Approach (2012)
• A Framework for Financing Water Resources Management (2012)
• Meeting the Water Reform Challenge (2012)
• Water Quality and Agriculture: Meeting the Policy Challenge (2012)
• Water Governance in OECD Countries : A Multilevel Approach (2011)
• Meeting the Challenge of Financing Water and Sanitation Tools and Approaches (2011)
• Greening Public Budgets in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (2011)
• Ten Years of Water Sector Reform in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (2011)
• Benefits of Investing in Water and Sanitation: an OECD Perspective (2011)
• Guidelines for Performance-based Contracts between Water Utilities and Municipalities: Lessons learnt from Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (2011)
• Policies towards a Sustainable Use of Water in Spain (2011)
• Pricing Water Resources and Water and Sanitation Services (2010)
• Sustainable Management of Water Resources in Agriculture (2010)
• Innovative Financing Mechanisms for the Water Sector (2010)
• Managing Water for All (2009) (2009)
  Managing Water for All – Summary for policymakers (2009) (2009)
• Alternative ways of providing water: Emerging options and their policy implications (2009)
• Private Sector Participation in Water Infrastructure: OECD Checklist for Public Action (2009)
• Environmental Performance of OECD Agriculture since 1990 (2008)
• Water and Agriculture: Sustainability, Markets and Policies (2006)
• Publications flyer

Other information

• Policy Briefs and Working Papers related to water and biodiversity
• Speeches by the Secrtetary-General
• OECD Observer articles
• What others are saying about OECD work on water
• OECD work on green growth

Permanent URL:  www.oecd.org/water

Contact: water@oecd.org

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