MOOC: Auditing Water Management

Exercise 2

Legal framework

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Match each of the international agreements and EU directives listed below with their main objective:

RAMSAR Convention	Aims to combat desertification and mitigate the effects of drought. Unselect Encompasses various measures to prevent and eliminate the pollution of the Baltic Sea. Unselect The goal is to achieve good qualitative and quantitative status of all water bodies in Europe. Unselect Aims to ensure the sustainable use of transboundary water resources by facilitating cooperation. Unselect Goal is to conserve and wisely use all wetlands through local and national actions and international cooperation. Unselect Aims to protect water quality across Europe by preventing nitrates from agricultural sources via promoting the use of good farming practices. Unselect
Water Framework Directive	Aims to combat desertification and mitigate the effects of drought. Unselect Encompasses various measures to prevent and eliminate the pollution of the Baltic Sea. Unselect The goal is to achieve good qualitative and quantitative status of all water bodies in Europe. Unselect Aims to ensure the sustainable use of transboundary water resources by facilitating cooperation. Unselect Goal is to conserve and wisely use all wetlands through local and national actions and international cooperation. Unselect Aims to protect water quality across Europe by preventing nitrates from agricultural sources via promoting the use of good farming practices. Unselect
Nitrates Directive	Aims to combat desertification and mitigate the effects of drought. Unselect Encompasses various measures to prevent and eliminate the pollution of the Baltic Sea. Unselect The goal is to achieve good qualitative and quantitative status of all water bodies in Europe. Unselect Aims to ensure the sustainable use of transboundary water resources by facilitating cooperation. Unselect Goal is to conserve and wisely use all wetlands through local and national actions and international cooperation. Unselect Aims to protect water quality across Europe by preventing nitrates from agricultural sources via promoting the use of good farming practices. Unselect
The Convention to Combat Desertification	Aims to combat desertification and mitigate the effects of drought. Unselect Encompasses various measures to prevent and eliminate the pollution of the Baltic Sea. Unselect The goal is to achieve good qualitative and quantitative status of all water bodies in Europe. Unselect Aims to ensure the sustainable use of transboundary water resources by facilitating cooperation. Unselect Goal is to conserve and wisely use all wetlands through local and national actions and international cooperation. Unselect Aims to protect water quality across Europe by preventing nitrates from agricultural sources via promoting the use of good farming practices. Unselect
Water Convention	Aims to combat desertification and mitigate the effects of drought. Unselect Encompasses various measures to prevent and eliminate the pollution of the Baltic Sea. Unselect The goal is to achieve good qualitative and quantitative status of all water bodies in Europe. Unselect Aims to ensure the sustainable use of transboundary water resources by facilitating cooperation. Unselect Goal is to conserve and wisely use all wetlands through local and national actions and international cooperation. Unselect Aims to protect water quality across Europe by preventing nitrates from agricultural sources via promoting the use of good farming practices. Unselect
Helsinki Convention	Aims to combat desertification and mitigate the effects of drought. Unselect Encompasses various measures to prevent and eliminate the pollution of the Baltic Sea. Unselect The goal is to achieve good qualitative and quantitative status of all water bodies in Europe. Unselect Aims to ensure the sustainable use of transboundary water resources by facilitating cooperation. Unselect Goal is to conserve and wisely use all wetlands through local and national actions and international cooperation. Unselect Aims to protect water quality across Europe by preventing nitrates from agricultural sources via promoting the use of good farming practices. Unselect

Please mark ALL these United Nations Sustainable Development Goals listed below that include concrete targets connected to water:

Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere

Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

Goal 6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development

Goal 15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

Goal 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

Match each EU directive listed below with the main obligation it sets for the Member States:

Water Framework Directive	MS must apply the criteria established in the Directive for the assessment of the chemical status of groundwater Unselect MS must lay down environmental goals for its bodies of surface water and groundwater Unselect MS must reduce and prevent water pollution caused or induced by nitrates from agricultural sources Unselect MS must ensure the collection and treatment of waste water in agglomerations of >2000 population equivalents Unselect MS must apply the surface water environmental quality standards established in the Directive Unselect MS must prepare flood hazard and risk maps as well as flood risk management plans Unselect
Directive on the environmental quality standards in the field of water policy	MS must apply the criteria established in the Directive for the assessment of the chemical status of groundwater Unselect MS must lay down environmental goals for its bodies of surface water and groundwater Unselect MS must reduce and prevent water pollution caused or induced by nitrates from agricultural sources Unselect MS must ensure the collection and treatment of waste water in agglomerations of >2000 population equivalents Unselect MS must apply the surface water environmental quality standards established in the Directive Unselect MS must prepare flood hazard and risk maps as well as flood risk management plans Unselect
Groundwater Directive	MS must apply the criteria established in the Directive for the assessment of the chemical status of groundwater Unselect MS must lay down environmental goals for its bodies of surface water and groundwater Unselect MS must reduce and prevent water pollution caused or induced by nitrates from agricultural sources Unselect MS must ensure the collection and treatment of waste water in agglomerations of >2000 population equivalents Unselect MS must apply the surface water environmental quality standards established in the Directive Unselect MS must prepare flood hazard and risk maps as well as flood risk management plans Unselect
Urban Waste Water Directive	MS must apply the criteria established in the Directive for the assessment of the chemical status of groundwater Unselect MS must lay down environmental goals for its bodies of surface water and groundwater Unselect MS must reduce and prevent water pollution caused or induced by nitrates from agricultural sources Unselect MS must ensure the collection and treatment of waste water in agglomerations of >2000 population equivalents Unselect MS must apply the surface water environmental quality standards established in the Directive Unselect MS must prepare flood hazard and risk maps as well as flood risk management plans Unselect
Nitrates Directive	MS must apply the criteria established in the Directive for the assessment of the chemical status of groundwater Unselect MS must lay down environmental goals for its bodies of surface water and groundwater Unselect MS must reduce and prevent water pollution caused or induced by nitrates from agricultural sources Unselect MS must ensure the collection and treatment of waste water in agglomerations of >2000 population equivalents Unselect MS must apply the surface water environmental quality standards established in the Directive Unselect MS must prepare flood hazard and risk maps as well as flood risk management plans Unselect
Floods Directive	MS must apply the criteria established in the Directive for the assessment of the chemical status of groundwater Unselect MS must lay down environmental goals for its bodies of surface water and groundwater Unselect MS must reduce and prevent water pollution caused or induced by nitrates from agricultural sources Unselect MS must ensure the collection and treatment of waste water in agglomerations of >2000 population equivalents Unselect MS must apply the surface water environmental quality standards established in the Directive Unselect MS must prepare flood hazard and risk maps as well as flood risk management plans Unselect

Fill in the gaps with a suitable word or expression from the drop-down list:

Auditors should have knowledge about the for water management to be able to understand how the allocation of |protection of and the provision of water services have been regulated in their country. A special may have been called to life or various legal acts issued that each different aspects of water management and protection. For auditors|legal acts are often a good source of . For example|it may be evaluated in the audit whether the national are in place and whether they are the water-related international agreements signed by the country.