Bijlage 8: Aquarius – The farmer as watermanager 69 Aquarius aims to develop the farmer as water manager able to practice sustainable farming under climatic changes with due respect to envi ronmental protection. Farmers can take an active role in the positive management of water resources through partnerships with other farmers, water boards, local and national government. Within this overall goal Aquarius aims to: • Identify common and particular constraints on farmers successful ly acting as water managers; • Develop innovative mixes of technical, financial, institutional approaches to integrated land-water management by farmers; • Test approaches to participation in the cooperative planning and implementation of land-water management initiatives by agencies and farmers; • Incorporate state-of-the-art research outcomes into management and policy (particularly from climatic changes, agro-ecology and governance); • Increase the interaction between land-water stakeholders both locally and across boundaries (local, national and EU) and across sectors (e.g. land, water and recreation); • Ensure a legacy by creating demonstration sites and stakeholder networks that will continue to encourage further innovation. Background: Across large areas of rural Europe there is an observable increase in the incidence of extremes of flows and of droughts. Intense rainy periods increase erosion and the input of nutrients and pathogens to water and low flows in drier summers hinder the ability of waters to dilute diffuse inputs with negative consequences for the ecosystem. Such changes are an additional challenge for meeting or maintaining Pagina 76
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