Water recycling strategy for Klaipėda

Brief intro to the WaterMan strategy

• Territory: Klaipėda Region, Lithuania
• Responsible institution: Klaipėda University
• Scope: Regional strategy & action plan for promoting water recycling across seven municipalities, based on intensive stakeholder dialogue & in-depth background research.
• Adoption: December 2025

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“Going the Extra Mile for Water Recycling”
Looking at Lithuania’s national climate data, one might assume that droughts and water scarcity are issues for the distant future, not for the present – especially in such a humid country. Yet the Klaipėda region chose to think ahead and act early. In numerous stakeholder dialogues, it became clear that farmers in the local area had already experienced periods of shortage. That is how a pioneering project came about in Gargždai: Lithuania’s first retention pond with an extraction point – and the country’s first real step into water recycling. Read more…