Strategy for Managing Water Resources until 2040

The strategy aims to ensure the sustainable and efficient long-term management of water resources in Belarus, emphasising the need to respond to growing climate-driven threats to water security. It promotes a range of solutions including expanded water storage and irrigation infrastructure, improved flood modelling and ecological approaches such as peatland re-wetting. It also notes methane emission issues from hydropower projects, and the need to balance these concerns against renewable energy benefits, co-ordinating hydropower with landscape-level water management to ensure sustainability. The strategy underscores the need to focus ecological and water quality observation and research on the areas and water systems most vulnerable to climate change.