Sector
Drinking water, wastewater treatment, network loss reduction, stormwater management and water reuse.
Pipeline
What European cities are preparing in this sector, with stage, investment and procurement window.
Chisinau Moldova
DEMONetwork losses are high and a large share of connections are unmetered, so consumption cannot be established.
Valencia Spain
DEMOPublic green space is irrigated with potable water in a region under recurring drought restriction.
Gdansk Poland
DEMOShort high-intensity rainfall now overwhelms the combined system in the lower city several times each year.
Izmir Turkiye
DEMOCoastal assets are assessed individually, under different sea level assumptions, with no single view of exposure.
Iasi Romania
DEMOFlash flooding along the river corridor now reaches occupied buildings, and the warning time available to residents is under thirty minutes.
Zagreb Croatia
DEMOA significant share of treated water does not reach a metered customer, and the network records are incomplete.
Funding
Calls whose scope covers this sector, with the ESCA assessment of what each instrument suits.
The main route for municipal infrastructure in the Western Balkans, and the point at which procurement capacity becomes the binding constraint rather than the money.
The most accessible EU instrument for adaptation work that is too small for cohesion programming and too specific for national funds.
Recovery financing with reform conditionality attached. The reform requirements are not administrative decoration; they determine disbursement.
Intelligence
Annual assessment of what European cities are preparing, what is funding it, and where preparation capacity is the binding constraint rather than capital.
Expertise
Independent adviser
Croatia
Non-revenue water reduction and district metering in south-eastern European networks.
Working languages English, Croatian
Network
Listed by category. Membership is a relationship with ESCA and implies no endorsement of any organisation.
Austria
Financing institution active in central and south-eastern Europe.
Scope of the partnership Support for the Accession Cities preparation programme. The partnership covers programme funding and technical input. It confers no role in ESCA governance, no influence over the project pipeline and no preferential position in any procurement.
Belgium
Federation representing municipally owned utilities across Europe.
Scope of the partnership Joint working groups on municipal utility capability. The federation nominates working group participants and has no role in ESCA governance or in the assessment of projects.
Poland
Member city. Contributes to the water and resilience working group.
Moldova
National municipal association. Partner in the Accession Cities programme.
Finland
Water network monitoring and leak detection. Industry member.
Water & Sanitation
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