Protection of drinking water reserves (Denmark)
Challenge
Denmark takes pride in providing some of the world’s cleanest drinking water from natural drinking water reserves.
To maintain this status drinking water is thoroughly regulated and tested. Recent years has shown increased residues of unwanted chemicals in the drinking water. This has led to immediate political action with a new national drinking water fund.
KEYWORDS
Thematic
Drinking water, land use, forestry
Legal
The EU revised Drinking Water Directive
Tech
Grant management
Solution
Using the base model for grant management, the solution handles the individual cases as well as prioritization between them and payout.
The solution both allows applicants to apply for grants to change the land use and plant trees on vulnerable drinking water reserves, and to a lesser degree a subsidy targeted at old wells which are no longer used. They represent a potential source of contamination. At the Agency the master case is created and this allows for the self-service application on the agency website to open. Again the applications rely on GIS documentation for the lots involved.
After screening the cases are prioritized, and awarded grants can move to payout. The master case is updated each step of the way, so that aggregated funds applied for, awarded and paid out are always accurat
Results
The Danish Environmental Protection Agency went live with a fully digital application solution only few months after the legislation went through parliament. As part of the annual budget agreement it was important that funds allocated in the fiscal year was put to use.
The Danish EPA, with its constantly evolving use of the F2 platform, can gradually reduce lead time, because the base model serves as best practice for all grant management leaving the implementation for new programs to be copy-andadapt from existing solutions.
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