Our route
Read more about what the Water Management Programme (WMP) is and how we are moving through the process.
What is the Water Management Programme (WMP)?
The Water Management Programme sets out the goals the water authority would like to and has to achieve over the six-year programme period. It also provides insight into how we intend to achieve those goals. The upcoming Water Management Programme covers the period from 2028 to 2033. The work we all do every day contributes to the goals we set out in this WMP. This gives us—and our residents, partners, and stakeholders—a document that outlines what we are doing to ensure we can continue to waterproof our future, how we contribute to clean and healthy water, and how we ensure enough water in every season.
For the period up to and including 2027, there is of course an existing Water Management Programme 2022–2027 (WMP).
Timeline
The water authority started preparations in 2025. In the first months of 2026, we will gather as much information as possible. We will do this within the water authority and we will also engage in discussions with other authorities and stakeholders. In the summer of 2026, we will draft the Water Management Programme. This will then be submitted for public consultation in early 2027. Ultimately, the Board of Directors will adopt the new WMP at the end of 2027.
Our process
In various sessions in our organisation, we gather the ambitions and tasks for the water authority for the period 2028-2033. The starting point is that we will continue the work we started in the past period. We will also explore the new developments that are coming our way and which issues no longer need to be included in the WMP. We ask ourselves: are we complete? What is still missing? What connections can be made? We determine where there may be mutual links and how feasible the plans are. Before we talk to our board, we will also consult our partners and stakeholders: on which fronts will we be working together in the coming years and what additions do they have to our ambitions and tasks? We will do this on 9 April. Before the summer, we will also be talking to a number of fellow authorities. And in the autumn, we will inform external parties of the draft.
On 27 May, the Board of Directors will talk for the first time about any choices that may need to be made.
Towards the new water management programme
We are working hard to gather ambitions and tasks for the new Water Management Programme 2028-2033. Input is gathered and compiled from across the entire organisation. This also took place during the first joint working session with our internal ambassadors just before the spring break (February 2026) at TOKO on Suikerlaan. We made this impression of that session: