Water recycling will only scale in the Baltic Sea Region if practical, technical-organisational solutions and tailored strategic pathways are matched by adequate policies and regulatory frameworks. To advance this agenda, WaterMan convened two Roundtable Discussions in Brussels, where practitioners, stakeholders and policymakers at regional, national, and EU level examined necessary and feasible amendments to existing frameworks. Below you’ll find the documentation of these events, including summaries, materials, and takeaways.
Roundtable Discussion #1: How can water recycling contribute to water resilience in humid regions of the EU? (16 Jan 2025)
At the first of two WaterMan Roundtables in Brussels, the discussion flowed openly and directly: Do we need specific water-recycling regulations for Europe’s humid regions? And to which extent can the existing EU Water Reuse Regulation (2020/741) be stretched to support other use cases, beyond its agricultural focus? It was the beginning of a dialogue with ambitions reaching well beyond policy detail. Read more…
Event documentation:
Roundtable Discussion #2: How can water recycling contribute to water resilience in humid regions of the EU? – Practical lesssons learnt in WaterMan project and conclusions for future policies in the EU (6 Nov 2025)
Water resilience is a priority of the European Commission, and gets more and more in the focus also in the northern and humid parts of the EU due to climate change. Since 2023, the EU Water Reuse Regulation provides a first, EU-wide legislative framework for it. With the Water Resilience Strategy, the European Commission has launched a further policy instrument to strengthen water resilience. With reference to the practical experiences gained in the WaterMan project, the second Roundtable Discussion in Brussels / BE that will take place on 6 Nov 2025 intends to bring practitioners and policy makers into dialogue on the question: How the present regulatory and policy framework could be further improved for making water recycling a more widespread practice also in the humid parts of the EU?
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Event documentation:
- Invitation & agenda
- Presentations & slides (…coming soon!)
- Recording (…coming soon!)
» Stay tuned by getting In the Loop – our three-edition guide to get started with water recycling.
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