India and EU already share a formal partnership with a strategic vision to advance multilateral engagement on environmental protection, climate change and sustainable development. From 2000 onwards, both the EU and India deployed significant diplomatic and financial capital to advance these objectives especially on matters related to water management. The most notable being the India-EU Water Partnership (IEWP) in 2016 and India-EU Strategic Partnership: A Roadmap to 2025. The latter was endorsed during the 15th India-European Union Summit in 2020. Both of these engagements have water as a focus and priority area respectively. To further bolster the cooperation on water between the two regions, India-EU Strategic Partnership 2020 calls for establishing a Joint Working Group on Water and the EU-India Water Forum and commit to strengthening and continuing support for IEWP. It is interesting to note that IEWP is co-financed by the EU and the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) — and is ‘implemented and coordinated by GIZ India in conjunction with the BMZ funded Indo-German Technical Cooperation project ‘Support to Ganga Rejuvenation’ highlighting the strategic role of Germany in the partnership.
https://india.hss.de/news/detail/reimagining-indo-german-cooperation-for-water-management-news12277/