40 Years Listening to the Beat of the Earth

Klaus Hinsby, WREG chair

Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland

Activities of the Water Resources

Expert Group (WREG)

UNECE Resources Management Week, 2019,

UNFC and UNRMS for Europe,

Palais de Nations, 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland

WREG members

Chair and co-chairs: Klaus Hinsby (GEUS), Hans Peter Broers (TNO), Laurence Gourcy (BRGM), Anna Kuczynska (PGI)

+ > 60 members from current EU member states and Norway

WREG MISSION & ACTIVITIES

Sustainable management and geoethical use of groundwater resources for current and future generations and protection of:

Groundwater eligible uses: drinking water, irrigation and industry*

Groundwater dependent terrestrial and associated aquaticecosystems (incl. marine ecosystems)*

*According to the Water Framework and Groundwater directives and associated guidelines

CURRENT AND FUTURE MAIN RESEARCH AND POLICY SUPPORT ACTIVITIES

Conducting groundwater research and identifying knowledge gaps for the EU research agenda on (ground)water incl. Horizon 2020/Europe, JPI, ERDF, BONUS etc. – e.g. in GeoERA (Horizon 2020 ERA-NET)

Support and advise to DG-ENV of the European Commission related to the Common Implementation Strategy (CIS) of the Water Framework Directive and the CIS Working Group on Groundwater incl. contributions to guidance

Contributions to future activities in the new UNFC Working Group on Groundwater

Convening / co-convening groundwater related sessions at relevant conferences and meetings – e.g. EGU, AGU, IAH and UNECE/UNFC/UNRMS

Groundwater – one of 4 research themesin the GeoERA program (www.geoera.eu):

EGDI / www.europe-geology.eu

Tessa Witteman

TNO

GeoERA - GroundwaterMain objective: To provide groundwater data and knowledge for the

assessment and protection of groundwater resources and EGDI, and to

support EU policy

1) Protection from Surface activities 2) Protection from shallow and deepsubsurface activities

GeoERA groundwater : the four groundwater projects and theirmain contributions to the GeoERA Information Platform / EGDI

EGDI

HOVER

RESOURCE

TACTIC

VoGERA

HOVER: GW Quality and age

(include development of gw ageclassification system defining

pristine and contaminated gw

VoGERA: GW vulnerability to deep energy relatedactivities (mainly reportsfrom pilots in UK, NL, BE & HU to EGDI)

TACTIC: GW and climate change(e.g. Pan EU GW recharge map and +40 pilots across Europe to EGDI)

RESOURCE: GW Quantity

(e.g. Pan EU gw resource mapand pilots to EGDI)

Synergy on Pan EU gw resource and recharge map

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and

innovation programme under grant agreement No 731166

HELP US BUILD THE EUROPEAN SUBSURFACE INFORMATION PLATFORM (EGDI) FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND GEOETHICAL EXPLOITATION OF

SUBSURFACE RESOURCES

8GeoERA

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION

http://www.europe-geology.eu/

PLEASE VISIT THE GeoERA website: http://geoera.eu/ and ..

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