The overall goal of the Coordination Action ASEM WaterNet is to promote science and technology co-operation between Europe and Asia on water resources management by focussing on the five main issues that were identified in Changsha: River Basin Management, Water use efficiency in agriculture, Floods, Pollution, Governance and strengthening the links between knowledge and action.
Considering these main areas of water research, the sub-objectives of the Platform will be:

1. to promote water management at the basin scale seeking transparency and ??
2. equitable and sustainable benefits;
3. to help improve efficiency in agriculture for greater welfare and sustainable
4. use of water resources;
5. to develop and/or reinforce approaches for the prevention of floods, as well as
6. mitigation of their effects and preparedness;
7. to increase knowledge on soil and aquifer pollution, in order to propose
8. prevention and remediation strategies;
9. to explore and promote best practices in water governance with emphasis on
10. the human and institutional dimensions and participatory approaches.

Our aim is to create a dynamic and, all together by joining efforts and innovation, to have an impact on improving the quality and sustainability of ASEM water resources. To be attractive to the large partnership and to outside, the network will propose information and knowledge-intensive activities with added-value compared to individual efforts of partner countries.