Malta’s Second Water Catchment Management Plan covers the period 2016 – 2021. This Second Plan assesses the new challenges that have been identified through implementation of the First Water Catchment Management Plan. Furthermore an increase in knowledge on the state of our surface waters due to better monitoring results have enabled additional water management issues to be identified. Thus the second plan aimed to target water management issues which Malta failed to identify or deal with under the first cycle. It proposes actions or measures needed to deal with the various significant issues identified in the plan and revises the 2011 set objectives for those waters that were deemed to be at risk of not achieving good water status by 2015.

The implementation of the Second WCMP is being supported by a LIFE IP project led by the Energy & Water Agency and co-financed under the EU LIFE Programme.

During the second cycle the intercalibration of all four biological quality elements in coastal waters was successfully carried out.

Documents/Links
Second Water Catchment Management Plan
SEA Screening Matrix
EU Reporting Creative Commons License​

Intercalibration Report for two Biological Quality Elements: Posidonia oceanica and Macroalgae
Intercalibration Report for two Biological Quality Elements: Phytoplankton and Benthic invertebrates