Description

Designation of areas in which special rules and prohibitions are passed to protect surface and groundwater from harmful influences and to secure drinking water supply.

Requirements

• A properly functioning country-wide administration and monitoring system with access to the relevant information and sufficient technical and human capacities for its design, implementation and monitoring
• Clear and coherent political strategy and targets for policy-makers and public authorities
• Compensation payments
• Participation of all stakeholders involved, e. g. science / research, agricultural advisory services, civil society, public and private sector (incl. farmers and their interest groups)
• Property / land register / formal land rights

Possible Negative Effects

• Farmers whose land is in protected areas receive no financial compensation payments
• Social tensions due to a lack of consensus of interests between all the parties involved