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Community Research
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Improving
Integrated Water Resources Management
at catchment scale
Overview of EU Research Activities
Panagiotis Balabanis
DG Research - Directorate I
Water Cycle and Soil-related aspects
[email protected]
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Three decades of EU water research
 Water research was a major component of successive EU
environmental research programmes
 EU funded research in the field of water covered a wide
number of areas (e.g. hydrological and biogeochemical
aspects, aquatic ecosystems functioning, groundwater
management, remediation of contaminated areas, etc.)
 Earlier programmes were focussed on the development of
scientific knowledge to support environmental quality
standards and objectives
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Three decades of EU water research
Research results provided important scientific and
technological insights and policy contributions
They also highlighted that water resources
management is an extremely complex undertaking
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From estimating regional recharge to
developing guidelines for sustainable
management
Within the context of the EFEDA project (19891992) research on spatial and temporal variability
of recharge has been initiated
Results highlighted that the current level of
groundwater exploitation in the upper Guadiana
catchment was not sustainable in the long term
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From estimating regional recharge to
developing guidelines for sustainable
management (cont.)
The GRAPES (1996-1999) project initiated to assess
groundwater over-exploitation and develop a
sustainable management programme
The project GOUVERNe (2002-2003) responds to
the requirement for integrated systems of
information permitting coherent policy and
resource management decisions covering water uses
in Europe, in the context of the new Water Directive
for watershed-based water management.
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Water Key Action
“Sustainable Management and Quality of
Water”
 The Water Key Action puts the foundations for integrated
responses to water resources management with a view of:
coping
with the fragmentation in managing water
improving
the integration between disciplines
supporting
the new Water Framework Directive
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Water Framework Directive
 Expanding the scope of water protection to all waters,
groundwater and surface waters
 Achieving and/or keeping "good status" for all waters within
a set time deadline
 Development of river basin management plans (single
management system)
 Combining the approach of emission limit values (ELVs)
with water quality standards (WQSs)
 Establishing water pricing policies taking into account
principle of full cost recovery
 Getting citizens and interested parties more closely involved
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WFD: needs for research
 methodologies for assessment and classification of
the ecological status
 methodologies for establishing the reference
conditions
 Methodologies for defining heavily modified water
bodies
 groundwater assessment methodologies
 prioritisation of hazardous substances
 IWRM tools:

modelling tools and decision support systems
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Water Key Action
“Sustainable Management and Quality of
Water”
 Part of the Environment and Sustainable Development
specific programme
 250 M Euros available for RTD projects, fellowships, SME
Measures and accompanying measures in four years (19992002)
 Seven main areas: integrated management at catchment
scale, ecological quality, treatment and reuse, pollution
prevention, monitoring and forecasting, arid and semi-arid
region, standardisation
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Distribution of funding at the end of
FP5
Area of the
work-programme
Integrated management
Ecological quality
Treatment technologies
Pollution prevention
Monitoring & surveillance
Arid areas
Support to standardisation
Total
N°
projects
43
19
52
29
20
16
5
150
Funding
M€
68.6
29.9
57.6
40.3
18.4
17.8
11.5
244.1
% of
Total
28.1
12.3
23.6
16.5
7.5
7.3
4.7
100
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Area participation
50.0%
45.0%
40.0%
35.0%
30.0%
25.0%
20.0%
15.0%
10.0%
5.0%
0.0%
1.1
1.2
1.3
1.4
1.5
1.6
1.7
Nr of Contracts
23.4%
10.3%
28.3%
15.8%
10.9%
8.7%
2.7%
EC Contribution
28.1%
12.2%
23.6%
16.5%
7.5%
7.3%
4.7%
SMEs Contribution
14.4%
1.1%
48.9%
15.9%
11.9%
7.5%
0.4%
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Integrated management methodologies and
tools at catchment/river basin scale
Understanding the various components of the
natural anthropogenic and socio-economic
systems and their linkages
Development and validation of harmonised
modelling tools (The CATCHMOD cluster)
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Integrated management methodologies and
tools at catchment/river basin scale
 Integrated assessments of water quality in selected river basins
(e.g. INCA, DANUBS)
 Integrated management of wetlands and lakes (e.g. EVALUWET,
EUROLAKES)
 Improved methodologies for linking various processes and
components at catchments (e.g. FIRMA, EUROCAT)
 Groundwater management (e.g. BASELINE, W-SAHARA)
 Socio-economic aspects (e.g. EUWARENESS, ADVISOR, SLIM)
 Decision supports tools (e.g MULINO, GOUVERNe, MERIT
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European catchment changes and their
impact on the coast (EUROCAT)
River
River
Estuary
Estuary
Coast
Coast
Coastal Response
Human activities
Soil
Soil
Atmosphere
Atmosphere
Properties of the river catchments
The River-Coast as a continuum
in combination with DPSIR
Socio-Economic
Socio-Economic
Drivers
Drivers
Environmental
Environmental
Pressures
Pressures..
Policy
Policy
Response
Response &
&
Management
Management
Options
Options
Stakeholders
Gains/losses
Biophysical
properties
basin-coast
Environmental
Environmental
‘State’
‘State’ Changes
Changes::
Impacts
Impacts
Coastal
Coastal
Response
Response
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The CATHMOD cluster
 Integrating physicochemical, ecological and
socioeconomic aspects
 Developing a universally accepted well defined and
documented Open Modelling Interface.
 Providing guidelines and benchmarking criteria for
good modelling practices
 Establishing a network of experimental river basins
 Developing, harmonising and validating integrated
modelling tools at river basin scale
 Securing sustainable use of water and supporting the
implementation of the WFD
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Clustering strategy
 Need to foster synergies and to reduce overlaps
among different projects
 Need to better monitor the progress of science in
each specific field
 Need to better exploit and disseminate results
 Need to integrate the European scientific
communities
 Need to facilitate the interface with stakeholders
and decision makers
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The CATCHMOD Cluster
Harmonising Catchment Modelling Tools for Integrated
Water Resources Management
HarmoniCA
(concerted action for Cluster co-ordination)
Methodologies
Modelling benchmarking River Basin Case Studies
HarmonIT
BMW
TiszaRiverProject
(IT tools for a Open Modelling
Environment)
(Integrated modelling benchmarking)
(Integrated modelling applied to a large
wetland-rich catchment)
HarmoniQuA
(Quality Assurance in modelling)
HarmoniCOP
(Methodologies of Collaborative Planning)
EUROHARP
(Nutrient modelling optimisation)
HarmoniRiB
(Modelling ephemeral water bodies)
(Experimental river basin network for
model testing and for data uncertainty
analysis)
CLIME
TRANSCAT
(Modelling climate change impact on
lakes)
(Integrated water management in
transboundary catchments)
TempQSim
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Clustering
Integrated management
Quality
Monitoring
ENDO
CATCHMOD
WFD
Quality
Assessment
ELOISE
ACTIF
(FLOOD)
PHARMA
ARID
SENSPOL
CityNet
EUGRIS
(Soil)
PaTanTex
Sednet
DRINK
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European research towards applicable
solutions in the field of integrated water
resources management
 CATCHMOD: a cluster of 10 projects (around 30 M€) to
support the development of harmonised modelling tools for
river basin planning
 ARID: a cluster of 3 major projects on management of
scarce water resources
 CITY-NET: a cluster of 5 projects on integrated urban water
management
 ACTIF: a cluster of 8 projects on flood forecasting and
management
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Strengthening complementarity and exploitation
of results of related RTD projects dealing with
water resources use and management in arid and
semi-arid regions (ARID)
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Urban catchment
The network of European research projects
on integrated urban water management
(CityNet)
Impermeable
surface
DayWater
Retention
Rain-runoffprocess
Reservoir
CARE-W
Sewer system
Drinking water
distribution
Sewage
retention
tank
Infiltration
CARE-S
sewer
Combined
Retention
Storage tank
CSO
Sedimentation
APUSS
Overflow
AISUWRS
WWTP
Clean
water
inflow
Disposal
In-/Exfiltration
Receiving water
Groundwater
Water
purification
Treatment
CD4WC
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Harmoni-CA Concerted Action
Harmonised Modelling Tools for
Integrated Basin Management
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Harmoni-CA
will produce
Guidance and Methodologies
based on
Support and Consensus
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Harmoni-CA work packages
 Establishment of a communication forum /
Harmoni-CA Management
 Toolbox
 Guidance documents for river basin modelling
 Joint use of monitoring and modelling
 Integrated assessment and science-policy
interface
 Co-ordination of ongoing/future RTD-activities
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Achieving Technological Innovation
in Flood Forecasting (ACTIF)
 Prepare guidelines of best European practice in
flood forecasting technology
 Prepare guidelines on the access to high quality,
site specific, data for further research and analysis
 Improve the interdisciplinary scientific linkages
between specialists in meteorology, hydrology and
hazard mitigation with principal users
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Conclusions
 Past and ongoing EU research activities in the field of water have
contributed to the development of Europe’s scientific and technical
capacity in the field of water and have been at the forefront of
international efforts to support the foundations for a sustainable water
management
 The Water Key Action provides opportunities for further strengthening
the synergies between projects and for bringing together scientists and
water managers thus providing decisions-makers with appropriate
tools for managing water resources in an integrated way, balancing the
very often conflicting environmental and economic requirements
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Conclusions
More emphasis should be given to build awareness
of the outputs of EC and other relevant national
research and make the research outputs accessible
to the scientific and user communities
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