What does resilient water management cost in North Rhine-Westphalia? What would be the cost of inaction in adapting to climate change? How can the financing instruments for water and wastewater management and water protection be strengthened and further developed? These questions will be examined in a study being prepared by FiFo Cologne in collaboration with the Osnabrück-based Gesellschaft für Wirtschaftliche Strukturforschung (GWS) on behalf of the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament's Enquete Commission on “Water in Times of the Climate Crisis”. At the kick-off meeting on 12 May 2025 in the state parliament, the project team presented its research plan to the Enquete Commission.