The New Water Culture Foundation

The FNCA is an Iberian (Spain and Portugal) non-profit organization composed by over 200 outstanding members from academia, research institutions, public administration, private sector, stakeholders and citizens, aiming at promoting a change towards a more sustainable water management and a new water culture. The FNCA promotes a more comprehensive water analysis and understanding, the application of inter and trans-disciplinary approaches, the integration of ecological, economic, social and cultural dimensions, an improved water governance and a wide cross-collaboration among researchers, stakeholders, decision-makers and the public opinion. The FNCA members jointly provides a wide research experience coming from all related scientific and technical disciplines. The FNCA applies systemic perspectives to the assessment and sustainable management of water socio-ecological systems, linking natural and social sciences, as well as technological and cultural heritage issues. It is member of the World Water Council, of the Aquanet Europe Foundation and of the Euro-Mediterranean Foundation “Anna Lindh” for the Dialogue among Cultures. It also takes part in the International Network GOBACIT. The FNCA has organized since 1998 the bi-annual Iberian Congress on Water Planing and Management, with the collaboration of more than fifty universities and research institutions from Spain and Portugal. Moreover, it has co-organized the I Latin-American Meeting for a New Water Culture (Fortaleza, Brazil, 2005), with more than 500 participants. The FNCA also promoted the European Declaration for a New Water Culture, signed in 2005 by 100 water experts from 20 European countries, with the attendance of 400 experts. Since 2006 it carries out an ongoing assessment of the Spanish water policy at the national and river-basin scales, with a special emphasis on the WFD implementation process in Spain.