Gest’eau is a tool for the resource center of the french community integrated water management actors. This national website is dedicated to Water Development and Management Master Plan (SDAGE), to water development and management scheme (SAGE) and to environmental contract (river, bay and groundwater). It’s a reference website mentioned in several legal orders and circulars of the French Ministry for Ecology and Sustainable Development.
Gest’eau enables to get, besides information on each SAGE & environmental contracts, contour of boundaries, documents produced in the framework of each tool and at national scale; it also makes available some synthesis documents specifically written to meet the SAGE managers’ needs.

Created in 2002 by the International 0ice for Water (IOW), with the French Ministry for Ecology and Sustainable Development, it was first dedicated only to the SAGE. Then, in 2005, it was extended to the contracts & innovative restoration actions and to aquatic environment protection actions, and in 2010 to the River Basin Management Plan.

Apart from the definition of the different water integrated management tools (SDAGE, SAGE, environmental contracts), all the SAGE and environmental contracts are detailed on complete fact sheets. Gest'eau allows to :
- share information, knowledge and experience (news, articles, letters, documents, calendar, job listings, tools, methods, experiences, guides, studies, data repositories management, ...)
- support stakeholders (web-conferences, training, ...),
- federate the actors (forums, seminars, directory, ...).

