Life Reverseau Recovering Tender

Duration 01-SEP-2020 to 31-DEC -2027Total budget 15099674.00 EU contribution 7120584.00 Project descriptionBackgroundThe EUs Water Framework Directive responds to a pressing need to improve water quality across Europe. It commits Member States to meeting the target of good status for all waters by 2027. The Pays de la Loire region is characterised by a very dense hydrographic system including 30 000 km of watercourses and large wetland areas stretching over 250 000 ha. It is heavily affected by water pollution agricultural industrial urban etc. and increasingly frequent extreme events such as droughts and floods. According to the 2019 situation report only 11 of the regions surface water bodies have achieved good status 24 at the Loire-Brittany basin scale while 25 have bad status. The report stressed that 79 of watercourses are at risk of failing to meet their environmental targets in 2027. The main issues are pesticides hydrology morphology continuity and macro-pollutants in surface ground and coastal water bodies. This has many negative consequences for biodiversity human health and the regional economy.The Loire-Brittany River Basin Management Plan for 2016-2021 was structured around four priorities acting to ensure water quality preserving and restoring aquatic environments ensuring water quantity and sharing of water resources and organising and managing water and aquatic environments. However the proportion of rivers in good condition has not improved since the last inventory 2013 published in 2015. Restoring good water status is a key challenge for the Pays de la Loire region. The 2016-2021 plan will be replaced by another for 2022-2027. In addition the Loire-Brittany Water Agency Territorial Contracts have been merged with the Pays de la Loire regional councils Region River Basin Agreements consolidating momentum for action by the regional council and the common understanding of challenges between stakeholders.ObjectivesThe main objective of LIFE-IP REVERSEAU is to implement the Loire Brittany River Basin Management Plan RMBP for the Pays de Loire region in full in order to achieve the Water Framework Directive WFD target of 37 of water bodies having good ecological status by 2027.The project is intended to create favourable conditions for the management plan with actions aimed at catalysing stakeholders commitment and mobilising funds both within the project and through complementary actions. LIFE-IP REVERSEAU will reinforce the overall coherence of measures aimed at farms programmes applying to local areas and the terms of reference for the economic and agri-food sectors. The project is also designed to spread good practices and achieve a scale change to contribute to restoring good status.The specific objectives are to 1. Mobilise regional stakeholders elected representatives the general public local RBMP organisers urban planners and economic st