Climate actions
Cleaning rain water drainage system
Objective
Protect and maintain an efficient water network.Description
Maintenance actions concern mowing and bush removal (trees, shrubs, grass etc…), riverbank maintenance, landslide management, maintenance and monitoring of ditches and of field morphology.
Expected results
Good water discharge; reduction of weeds and other natural obstacles in the rainwater ways.Result indicators
Number of free rainwater drainage ways.Involved actors
Governments, Public administration, civil society organization.Expected timeline for action
- Short term (1-4 years)
Best practices
Criticalities
Vegetation can damage the discharge efficiency, so drainage must be kept not obstructed.
Scope of the action
- Adaptation
Type of proposed actions
- Green
Sector of action
- Agriculture / Forests / Land use
- Water resource management
Climate impacts
- Extreme precipitation
- Floods
- Other
Implementation scale
- Municipality
- Region / Country