Report: Financing a Water Secure Future
Brochure: OECD work on water
Report: Toolkit for Water Policies and Governance - Converging Towards the OECD Council Recommendation on Water
OECD Council Recommendation on Water
The Recommendation provides a unique source of policy guidance that help address the pressing issues that central and subnational authorities need to respond to.
The Roundtable on Financing Water
Established by the OECD, the World Water Council and the Netherlands, the Roundtable draws upon political leadership and technical expertise, with the ambition of facilitating increased financing of investments that contribute to water security and sustainable growth.
Water Governance Initiative
An international multi-stakeholder network of members from the public, private and non-for-profit sectors gathering twice a year to share good practices in support of better governance in the water sector.
The Sustainable Development Goals highlight the importance that the global community places on water and there is increasing demand for innovative and effective approaches to water management. With widespread competing demands on water, maintaining environmental sustainability and meeting the needs of the most vulnerable members of society must both be addressed. The OECD provides policy guidance on water to OECD members and non-OECD countries, covering a wide range of issues.
The established Roundtable on Financing Water aims to accelerate action to scale-up financing for water investment which contributes to sustainable growth.
What's new
Event: Ninth meeting of the Roundtable on Financing Water | 7-9 February 2023
Working paper: Strategic Investment Pathways for Resilient Water Systems | 2 November
Event: Science-policy workshop on Developing science-informed policy responses to curb endocrine disruption in freshwater | 18-19 October
Report: Reform of Water Supply and Wastewater Treatment in Lithuania | 22 September
Report: Towards Sustainable Water Services in Estonia | 22 September
Blog: Seeing the Unseen: The Value of Water | 2 September
Workshop series: OECD – EC DG Environment, The Economic Aspects of Implementing the EU Water Framework and Floods Directives | February - June
New initiative: Launch of the Global Commission on the Economics of Water | 25 May
Explore the policy areas below to access the latest OECD work in each area:
