Water Board Company Limburg (WBL) Netherlands.

The Water Board Company Limburg was founded in 2003 as a collaboration of the two Water Boards Peel and Maasvallei and Roer and Overmaas in the province Limburg, South Holland. Within the frameworks of these two water boards, the company is responsible for operational aspects. The main task is management of water quality, combating water pollution by purifying sewerage water and therefore improving surface water quality. Low costs and high quality of performance are the main objectives to achieve this.

Dutch water boards are decentralised and the ever-present threat of flooding and loss of land requires short lines of communication between authorities and action. Typically, a water board’s territory is made up of one or more polders or watersheds. Territorially, water boards overlap with municipalities. Water boards are responsible for management and maintenance of water barriers, waterways, of pro-per water levels in polders and waterways and the maintenance of surface water quality through water treatments.
There are 27 water boards in the Netherlands.