Montenegro adopts updated water strategy with flood and drought risk priorities
Montenegro’s Cabinet reported adopting an updated Water Management Strategy through 2035 and an action plan for 2025–2028. The update places greater emphasis on climate adaptation and risks from droughts, floods and flash floods.
Compared with the 2017 strategy, the update also prioritises better monitoring and data management and alignment with EU water-management requirements.
What changed
It brings extreme-water-event risks into the national framework for managing water resources and infrastructure.
Who this is for
Water-management authorities and communities within Montenegro’s Adriatic and Danube basins.
Dates & context
The Cabinet account is dated 1 October. Adoption of a strategy and action plan does not demonstrate that protective infrastructure or monitoring improvements have already been delivered.
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