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BMBF-Research Program Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) of the Lower Jordan Rift Valley

SMART IWRM at the Lower Jordan River Basin– Reviewing models, results and uptake from large scale integrated water resources researchL. Wolf1,10, A. Subah2, A.Tamimi3, J. Guttman4, J. Bensabat5, R. Mueller6, S.Geyer6, M. Sauter7, H.P. Wolff8, A. Tiehm9, D.Riepl10, W. Ali10, H. Hoetzl10

BMBF Foerderkennzeichen 02WM1079

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25 partner institutionsImplementation of IWRM requires multidisciplinary information. IWRM must be extremely sensitive to national, political, cultural, and social conditions

Integrated Water Resource

Management at the Lower Jordan River“Sustainable Management

of Available Water Resources with Innovative Technologies in the Lower

Jordan Valley”

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Urbanisation: Increased Wastewater and Stormwater generation

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Wastewater Recipient: Agriculture in the Lower Jordan Valley

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A closed river basin..

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Israel JordanJericho City (Palestine)**

Year 2010 2020 2050 2010 2015 2025 2010 2020 2050TWW Reuse in Agriculture

MCM/ y 450 570 930 117 165 247 0 0.8 1.2

Inland brackish water desalination

MCM/ y 25 50 70 57 82 82 0 5 15

Seawater desalination

MCM/ y 280 750 750 210 370 0 0 0

Groundwater (renewable) *

MCM/ y 1200 1140 1020 405 380 329 3.5 3 3

Groundwater (non- renewable)**

MCM/ y 40 40 40 74 154 154 0 2 2

Total Demand***

MCM/ y 2000 2440 3050 1315 1407 1652 2.57 3.32 7.19

PopulationMill. Pers. 7.6 9.1 15.6 6.15 6.9 8.5 0.02 0.03 0.06

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WP1 Project Management

WP6 WaterManagement Tools

WP5 Water Resources Protection

WP4 Water Resources Assessment

WP3 Technologies

‐Wastewater

‐Artificial recharge

‐Brackish water

WP2 Database

WP7 Socio‐Economics

WP8 IWRM Scenarios

WP9 Dissemination & Capacity building

SMART II Workpackage Structure

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Groundwater recharge in Wadi Arab calculated with different methods Tino Roedinger, Christian Siebert, Stefan Geyer (UFZ)

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What is your subjective impression on the uncertainty in determining the volume of renewable groundwater resources in the Jordan Valley?

Opinions of stakeholders & researchers participating in the SMART Coordination meeting

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„Groundwater Vulnerability Map SMART Israel/Palestine, 1:200.000“

Geology Aquifers Soils

Bastian, 2008Data layers: Protective cover of aquifers

Aquifers Soils Recharge

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High time resolution GW-Monitoring with telemetry in urbanised karst areas (Example Hazzir Spring)

- long term monitoring of improvements in upstream wastewater systems - improving delineation of groundwater protection zones

EC [µS/cm]

NO3 [mg/L]

Q [L/s]

[mg/L]

[L/s]

[µS/cm]

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Wadi Shueib – Improving process detail for robust predictions wih WEAP & Knowledge structuring

David Riepl – PhD-Student SMART Project

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IWRM strategies for each sub basin

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Spot location/ Household/Farm

Small natural systems/Village/Town

Wadi/Subcatchment/Metropolis

River Basin/National level

Data generation Data generation Data generation Data generation

Climate stationsRunoff/Flow measurements

Runoff/Flow measurements Water transfer data

Pumping testSedimentation rate monitoring

Infiltration testsWater quality probes Water quality probes

Water quality sampling Water quality sampling Water quality samplingSoil moisture monitoring Geophysical exploration Geophysical explorationSoil water quality Remote Sensing Remote SensingLab column studies GIS GISSBR Reactor Tracer tests

Constructed WetlandSupply & Demand registers

Supply & Demand registers

Supply & Demand registers

MBR Reactor

Water pricing information/Economic statistics

Water pricing information/Economic statistics

Water pricing information/Economic statistics

Recharge weirs Questionaires Interviews Questionaires InterviewsMAR injection well MAR injection well

Data generation in SMART

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Models used in SMART/ LJV

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SMART outcomesTransboundary water database Refined groundwater models Improvement of monitoring networksDemonstration of decentralised wastewater treatment technologies Implementation of groundwater protection zones Artificial recharge trialsBrackish gw-desalination Social acceptance Environmental fate of emerging pollutantsDecision support systemsKnowledge management

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What do you think about the  current water prices for  different uses?

Agriculture Domestic Business

too low 20 7 14

8 9 9

appropriate 11 12 10

0 6 6

too high 4 9 3

Opinions of stakeholders & researchers participating in the SMART Coordination meeting

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Dropedia SMART KMS – a wiki with a semantic structure

David Riepl – PhD-Student SMART Project

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Dropedia SMART IWRM 2.0 Knowledge management software

Support the planning and decision process in a participatory and collaborative frameworkLarge group of people can contribute with minimal technical barrierFlexibly structure water related knowledge by

Conceptual models / Water network schematicsGeographical contextContent hierarchy

Link to Oracle-Databases with hard data and customised queriesGoogle maps link – Data exchange with Water Allocation Models via kmz-files

21.10.2011

See David Riepl et al,IWRM2011

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Dropedia SMART IWRM 2.0 Knowledge management software

David Riepl – PhD-Student SMART Project

IWRM Analyses: e.g. IWRM Analysis Wadi ShueibEditing in Wiki-Style Functionality

model assumptions

system description

Context information: e.g. Wadi Shueib withpopulation, area, …

See David Riepl et al,IWRM2011

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More public data & information availability will increase public acceptance of water policy

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Capacity buildingworkshops with institutional stakeholders on groundwater protection, integrated management & decentralised wastewater treatment solutionsUniversities in the project reason and Germany have now IWRM process knowledge>25 PhD students (most still ongoing). More than 5 are already in senior positions at institutions in the project regiontraining courses for schools with 230 teaching sets employed in Jordan, monitored implementation of the program

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UptakeSMART Research informed the formulation of National Water StrategiesNew hydrological data & monitoring networks need to gain ownership by the stakeholders.Similar Water Planning and Allocation Models are now used in SMART, GLOWA and local authoritiesSMART is consulted in the formulation of new guidelines (e.g. groundwater protection, wastewater reuse)

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ConclusionsSMART-IWRM was efficient in promoting innovative technologies/concepts which are not yet sufficiently supported by institutional arrangementsWastewater reuse and groundwater protection remain urgent topics.Academic research as a trusted advisor.Capacity building by the research project was very well recieved.The transboundary exchange and collaboration with experts from Jordan, Israel and Palestine was kept up and is percieved as a major benefit by the local partners

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Thanks to all participants and funders BMBF Foerderkennzeichen 02WM1079

GermanyKarlsruhe Institute of TechnologyUniversity of GöttingenUniversity of HeidelbergUFZ Environmental Research Cent.DVGW Research Inst. & TZWBDZ Cent. Decentr.Sewage Treatm.ATB Environmental Technic GmbHHans Huber AG, Stulz-Planaqua

IsraelMekorot Co Ltd., Tel AvivTel Aviv UniversityHebrew UniversityBen Gurion UniversityEnvironmental & Water Resources

Engineering, Haifa

JordanMinistry of Water and IrrigationJordan Valley AuthorityJordan University, AmmanAl Balqa Applied UniversityECO Consult

PalestinePalestine Water AuthorityPalestinian Hydrological GroupAl Quds University

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IWRM Responses

Supply side measures

Seawater desalinationWastewater reuseGroundwater desalinationStormwater harvestingReduction of network losses

Demand side measuresWater tariff structuresEfficient water use in irrigation, industry & households

Environmental protection

Setting environmental targetsReduction of over-utilisationGroundwater protection zonesSurface Water protection zonesImproving WWTP coverage

Capacity building & Awareness raising

Knowledge managementEducation programsDemonstration activities