ContentsList of contributors ixPreface xviiiForeword xixList of abbreviations xxPART I EU WATER LAW: SETTING THE SCENE1 Introduction to the Research Handbook on EU Water Law 2Cathy Suykens and Marleen van Rijswick2 The history of EU water law 10Marleen van Rijswick3 EU water law as part of EU environmental law 20Antti Belinskij, Elina Heikkilä, and Anton Ruotsalainen4 EU water law and international water law: mutually reinforcingframeworks 36Owen McIntyre5 Water in the EU Green Deal and recent evolutions in EU water law andpolicy 52Suvi-Tuuli PuharinenPART II WATER MANAGEMENT AND RELATED RIGHTS AND CONFLICTS6 Human rights and consumer protection in the EU Drinking WaterDirective 73Iris Benöhr7 Review of permits: the interplay between Article 11(5) of the WaterFramework Directive and Article 1 of Protocol 1 to the EuropeanConvention on Human Rights 89Víðir Petersen and Flore Vavourakis8 River rights: exploring the connection between the legal construct and thelegal frameworks governing rivers 112Cathy Suykens, Katie O''Bryan, and Erin O''Donnell9 Participatory rights and access to justice: water and the Aarhus Conventionin the EU 137Jerzy Jendroska10 European basin organizations in the context of climate-induced conflictrisks 157Susanne Schmeier and Gábor BaranyaiPART III THE SUBSTANTIVE WATER LEGAL LANDSCAPESECTION 1 RESTORATION AND PRESERVATION OF WATER RESOURCES11 Goals of the Water Framework Directive: prevent deterioration and protect,enhance and restore ecological status 180Moritz Reese12 Environmental quality standards for water and the long road towardsachieving good chemical status for surface water 209Henrik Josefsson13 Planning: management cycles and implications for industrial permits 234Lasse Baaner14 Monitoring, compliance and enforcement: the Water Framework Directive 250Oda Essens15 Cost recovery as a water-policy principle 268Petra Lindhout16 The regulation of groundwater in EU Law: the Groundwater Directives 285Henrik Josefsson17 The marine environment and coastal zones: the Marine Strategy Directiveand marine planning 308David Langlet18 The Drinking Water Directive 328Jasper van Kempen19 Safe bathing water 344Susanne Wuijts, Ciska Schets, and Marleen van RijswickSECTION 2 REGULATING PRESSURES AND RISKS20 Flood risk management in Europe: a deep dive into the Floods Directive 357Willemijn van Doorn-Hoekveld and Frank Groothuijse21 Water scarcity and drought risk management in the EU: towards an EUWater Scarcity and Droughts Directive? 370Marchien van Steinvoorn and Herman Kasper Gilissen22 Circular water management: wastewater and water reuse 387Annalies Outhuijse and Dafne van der Kraan23 The regulation of polluting substances in relation to EU water law 403Valérie van ''t LamPART IV WATER-NEXUSES24 Water and agricultural pollution 423Helle Tegner Anker25 Reconciling flood-risk management with nature protection law: thepromise of nature-based solutions 444Anne Lansink and Bente de Leeuw26 Water and land use: role and scope of EU legislation 468Juliane Albrecht and Thomas Hartmann27 The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and EU Taxonomy: awaterproof European plan for the energy transition? Zooming in on thewater-energy nexus 483Cathy Suykens, Kelly Verreth, and Leonie ReinsPART V APPROACHES TO IMPROVING WATER GOVERNANCE28 Nature-based solutions in sustainable water governance 507Froukje Maria Platjouw, Maximilian Nawrath, Isabel Seifert-Dähnn,Line Johanne Barkved, and Ingvild Skumlien Furuseth29 Social-ecological systems approach to water: resilience and adaptivity inwater management, governance and law 530Niko Soininen and Marleen van Rijswick30 Water law, water management and water governance: towards amultidisciplinary approach ensuring coherence, adaptiveness, andeffectiveness 549Susanne Wuijts, Peter Driessen, and Marleen van Rijswick31 Water and spatial planning: exploring governance synergies in theNetherlands - a case study and lessons for the EU 569Liping Dai.