On 13 and 14 April 2026, the „Lawyer Meets Engineer“ meeting, a regular exchange between lawyers and engineers on energy law in the wastewater industry, took place in Oldenburg at the invitation of the Oldenburg-East Frisian Water Association. Topics surrounding energy legislation at EU and federal level and its impact on the water industry were discussed there. The next exchange will take place in […]
In 2016, the last comprehensive amendment of the association legal provisions of the special legal water associations in NRW was carried out. In the meantime, numerous new legal and political requirements have been placed on water management. These include the new EU Municipal Wastewater Directive with the requirement of energy neutrality, but also politically driven specifications for greater resilience […]
28,000 vacancies for skilled labour in climate-related professions in NRW. That is every second unfilled skilled labour position in the state. To counteract this, the industry associations for energy and water supply, wastewater disposal and climate-related professions are now joining forces - under the patronage of Mona Neubaur, Karl-Josef Laumann and Oliver Krischer. In the last [...]
Effective flood management requires an integrated approach. Holistic river basin management, as practised by the NRW water associations for decades, provides a sensible framework for this. The fact that the NRW State Flood Protection Pact signed today by the Ministry of the Environment, the district governments, the municipalities, cities and districts, together with the water boards, now wants to take an integral view of flood protection and improve it, is a good and important [...]
Things are finally moving: shortly before Christmas - as announced by the Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Transport of North Rhine-Westphalia - the draft bill for the H₂O-NRW Water Strategy for the Future was published. The paper contains 17 goals grouped under the four thematic clusters of resilience, security, cooperation and design. The goals should not be viewed in isolation, [...]
Call for donations December 2025 Info event: Donation platform Ukraine on 12 January 2026, 12:00-13:00 via MS Teams (dial-in link available via external link) On behalf of the associations agw, AöW, BDEW, DBVW, DWA, GWP and VKU, we cordially invite you to our digital info event „Donation platform Ukraine“ (registration not necessary), where we will answer your questions and provide a compact overview of the Ukraine [...].
@Wupperverband On 10 November, the renatured Wupper in Wuppertal-Laaken and the Wupper reservoir provided an impressive backdrop for a meeting between the boards of directors of North Rhine-Westphalian water associations and the State Minister for the Environment, Oliver Krischer. The annual exchange offers an opportunity to discuss water management challenges and current projects and developments on site at one of the associations. The […]
