AQUAMONEY Economic Assessment of the Environmental and Resource Costs and Benefits of Water Use and Water Services
Country: EU Projects
Start Date:   1/4/2006         Duration: 42 months         Project Type: RTD
Contract Number: 022723
Organisation Type:  EC Project
Topics: 
Water resources and their management -->Costs, benefits and sustainability
Water resources and their management -->Monitoring and mitigation
Water resources and their management -->River basin management
Water resources and their management -->River basins
Water resources and their management -->Water resources and their management Overview
Project objectives: 
Over a three-year period (April 2006 to September 2009), AquaMoney will:  
  
* assess policy maker demand for information about ERCB;   
* develop practice-oriented guidelines on how to assess ERCB, with particular focus on the transfer of economic values between river basins;   
* test these guidelines by carrying out pilot case studies in 10 different European river basins;   
* analyse experiences in the pilot case studies and translate these into practical policy guidelines.   
* investigate the potential for using geographical information systems (GIS) to synthesise data from the pilot case studies with available environmental 
and census data to generate value maps of improved water quality due to WFD implementation.
Project Summary: 
AquaMoney, funded by DG RTD, brings together 16 leading European research institutions to develop and test practical guidelines for the assessment of environmental 
and resource costs and benefits (ERCB) in the European Water Framework Directive (WFD).  
  
The concept of ERCB plays a central role in the economic analysis of the WFD, in particular for the cost recovery of water services (Article 9 WFD), but as expected 
also in relation to the decision whether or not the costs of additional measures are disproportionate (Article 4 WFD). However, so far no clear guidelines exist 
for the assessment of ERCB in practice. AquaMoney was established to address this gap.
Achieved Objectives: 
The project has developed practical guidelines for the economic valuation of water resources in the context of the WFD (see Policy Brief No. 1 at http://www.aquamoney.ecologic-events.de/ ... 
For this purpose, AQUAMONEY followed a four staged approach: (i) assess policy-maker demand for guidance on economic valuation of water resources; (ii) develop 
draft guidelines for the economic valuation of water resources; (iii) test the draft guidelines in 12 case studies throughout Europe; and (iv) incorporate 
the experiences from the case studies into the guidelines.
Product Descriptions: 
Other deliverables include:  
  
Policy Briefs   
Policy Brief No. 1   
 AquaMoney Project Summary, June 2006 [pdf, 308 KB]   
  
Policy Brief No. 2   
 AquaMoney: Economic Valuation, July 2007 [pdf, 200 KB]   
  
Policy Brief No. 4   
 No. 4-1 Odense River Basin Case Study Fact Sheet, August 2009 [pdf, 127 KB]  
 No. 4-2 Általér Case Study Fact Sheet, August 2009 [pdf, 104 KB]  
 No. 4-3 Austrian Case Study Fact Sheet, August 2009 [pdf, 56 KB]  
 No. 4-4 Lithuanian Case Study Fact Sheet, August 2009 [pdf, 185 KB]  
 No. 4-5 Po Case Study Fact Sheet, August 2009 [pdf, 108 KB]  
 No. 4-6 Guadalquivir Case Study Fact Sheet, August 2009 [pdf, 197 KB]  
 No. 4-7 Scheldt Case Study Fact Sheet, August 2009 [pdf, 168 KB]  
 No. 4-8 French Case Study Fact Sheet, August 2009 [pdf, 223 KB]  
 No. 4-9 Morsa Case Study Fact Sheet, August 2009 [pdf, 202 KB]  
 No. 4-10 Greek Case Study Fact Sheet, August 2009 [pdf, 162 KB]  
 No. 4-11 Romania Case Study Fact Sheet, June 2009 [pdf, 197 KB]  
 No. 4-12 UK Case Study Fact Sheet, August 2009 [pdf, 94 KB]  
 No. 4-13 Serpis Case Study Fact Sheet, July 2009 [pdf, 248 KB]  
 Enquête sur la perception des eaux souterraines en Lorraine : le cas de la nappe des Grès du Trias Inférieur, January 2009 [pdf, 156 KB]  
  
  
Reports   
 Overview of existing guidelines and manuals for the economic valuation of environmental and resource costs and benefits, June 2006 [pdf, 1 MB]  
  
 Working Definition of Environmental and Resource Costs and Benefits, December 2006 [pdf, 931 KB]  
  
  
Other Public Documents   
 AquaMoney Flyer, November 2006 [pdf, 331 KB]   
  
 AquaMoney Project Presentation, April 2006 [pdf, 1 MB]   
  
 Report on the kick-off meeting, June 2006 [pdf, 1 MB]   
  
 AquaMoney Poster : Economic Analysis of Spatial Preferences Heterogeneity of Water Quality. Martin-Ortega et al., IAAE Conference, Beijing, August 16-22 
2009 [pdf, 1743 KB]   
 From: http://www.aquamoney.ecologic-events.de/ ...
Additional Information:
Project Resources:
Weblink:
http://www.aquamoney.org
Funding Programme(s): 
EC Framework Programme 6
Link to Organisations:
Submitted by: EUGRIS Team Professor Paul Bardos  Who does what?  27/10/2009 12:45:00