{"id":11380,"date":"2026-02-09T08:51:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T08:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.agw-nw.de\/?p=11380"},"modified":"2026-04-22T08:12:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:12:48","slug":"signing-of-the-state-pact-for-flood-protection-nrw-on-09-02-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agw-nw.de\/en\/unterzeichnung-landespakt-hochwasserschutz-nrw-am-09-02-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"agw signs NRW state flood protection pact on 09.02.2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"11380\" class=\"elementor elementor-11380\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-736ae41f e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"736ae41f\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ac2cf14 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"ac2cf14\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.agw-nw.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/photo-2026-02-09-12-04-46_2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-11386\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.agw-nw.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/photo-2026-02-09-12-04-46_2.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.agw-nw.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/photo-2026-02-09-12-04-46_2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.agw-nw.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/photo-2026-02-09-12-04-46_2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.agw-nw.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/photo-2026-02-09-12-04-46_2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.agw-nw.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/photo-2026-02-09-12-04-46_2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.agw-nw.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/photo-2026-02-09-12-04-46_2-16x12.jpg 16w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-75dc90af elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"75dc90af\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>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 sends out a good and important signal.<\/p><p>\u201eThe water associations welcome the holistic approach to flood protection in river catchment areas and are happy to contribute their planning and technical expertise to the pact,\u201c says Dr Uwe Moshage, Chairman of the agw.<\/p><p>The water boards contribute to the improvement of the landscape water balance through numerous measures, including renaturalisation projects. Investments in technical flood protection and co-operations to support the creation of municipal flood protection concepts also serve to improve flood protection.<\/p><p>\u201eWe hope that the state pact on flood protection in North Rhine-Westphalia signed today will provide the urgently needed acceleration and streamlining of planning and approval procedures, a resounding effect on land availability and improved provision and faster access to funding in the future,\u201c says Jennifer Sch\u00e4fer-Sack, Managing Director of agw. The water associations attach great importance to the fact that the regional pacts provide constructive support for flood protection measures that have already been implemented.<\/p><p><strong>Further information:<\/strong><\/p><ul><li><a style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.umwelt.nrw.de\/vorsorge-zeiten-des-klimawandels-landesregierung-unterzeichnet-pakt-fuer-hochwasserschutz-mit-allen\">Press release of the Ministry of the Environment<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.agw-nw.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/landespakt_unterzeichnet_090226.pdf\">State pact for flood protection<\/a><\/li><li><a style=\"border-color: #c7cade; background-color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.agw-nw.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/munv_pressemitteilung_pakt-hochwasserschutz_final_090226.pdf\">Press release of the Ministry of the Environment for download<\/a><\/li><li>Photos of the signing (Source MUNV: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umwelt.nrw.de\/bildergalerie\/pakt-fuer-hochwasserschutz-nrw\">Pact for Flood Protection NRW | umwelt.nrw.de<\/a>)<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4b2a1c9 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"4b2a1c9\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wirksames Hochwassermanagement erfordert eine integrative Handlungsweise. Das ganzheitliche Flussgebietsmanagement, wie es die NRW-Wasserverb\u00e4nde seit Jahrzehnten praktizieren, bildet daf\u00fcr einen sinnvollen Rahmen. Dass jetzt mit dem heute unterzeichneten Landespakt Hochwasserschutz NRW das Umweltministerium, die Bezirksregierungen, die Kommunen, St\u00e4dte und Kreise gemeinsam mit den Wasserverb\u00e4nden den Hochwasserschutz integral betrachten und verbessern wollen, setzt ein gutes und wichtiges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aktuelles"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>agw unterzeichnet Landespakt Hochwasserschutz NRW am 09.02.2026 - AGW-NRW<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.agw-nw.de\/en\/signing-of-the-state-pact-for-flood-protection-nrw-on-09-02-2026\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"agw unterzeichnet Landespakt Hochwasserschutz NRW am 09.02.2026 - AGW-NRW\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Wirksames Hochwassermanagement erfordert eine integrative Handlungsweise. 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