Water matters: An assessment of opinion on water management and community engagement in the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom.

ABSTRACT: Internationally, water management is moving from the traditional top-down approach to more integrated initiatives focussing on community-led action. With inadequacies in previous engagement initiatives undertaken through the first cycle of River Basin Management Planning for the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD), the Republic of Ireland has only recently embraced this bottom-up approach. The attempted introduction of national charging for domestic water use in 2015 has resulted in significant public disquiet and protest movements against the national government. In April 2015 we undertook a survey of current opinion on water management and community engagement initiatives in the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. A total of 520 survey responses identified that although freshwater

SUBMITTER: Rolston A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5378399 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature