The Authority has been tasked with developing a regional policy tool aimed at ensuring the future planning and development of rivers and waters in counties Limerick, Clare and Tipperary (including Lough Derg, the West Clare coastline, the River Shannon and the Shannon Estuary), are compliant with the Water Framework Directive (WFD).
The objectives of the EU Directive are to protect all high status waters, prevent further deterioration of all waters and to restore degraded surface and ground waters to good status by 2015.
The overall objective of the project is to facilitate the exchange of best practices between project partners’ regions in an effort to promote environmental protection while also ensuring proper economic and social development. The end result should be an action plan for each region.
Other partners in this project include Kainuun Etu Ltd (Finland); Association of River Trusts (United Kingdom); Zemgale Planning Region (Latvia); Regional Development Agency of Western Macedonia SA (Greece), South-West Regional Authority and Shannon Development (Ireland); Waterboard Noorderzijlvest (the Netherlands); National Institute of Research Development for Mechatronics (Romania); and Soca Valley Development Centre (Slovenia).
