First meeting Task Force Water Governance in border regions
Report Workshop
Water management and climate change: satellite solutions to enhance cross-border collaboration
ESA’s SPACE RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY
CENTRE, 4 th June 2013
Noordwijk the Netherlands
www.eurisy.org
www.floodwise.eu
Content
1. Background 1
2. Introduction 1
3. Capitalizing on experience 2
4. Visit of the European Space Research and Technology Centre 2
5. Future opportunities to foster cross border water management 2
6. Conclusions, appointments and perspectives 5
Annexes Annex 1 Workshop program
Annex 2 Participant list
Annex 3 Pitches
Annex 4 Project ideas
The Organizers The workshop was made possible by Eurisy, co-organized with Euregio Meuse-Rhine and AP Water with the support of ESA and the Netherlands Space Office.
About Eurisy Eurisy is a non-profit association of space agencies financed to raise awareness of satellite applications, including those derived from the two flagship investment programmes of the EU in satellite infrastructure, namely Galileo – the European global satellite navigation system and Copernicus – the European Earth observation programme. For more information, please see www.eurisy.org.
About APWaterThe Ambassador Platform for Water Management (APWater) of ESA's Integrated Applications Promotion (IAP) programme (http://iap.esa.int) is hosted by Het Waterschapshuis (http://www.hetwaterschapshuis.nl) in Amersfoort, The Netherlands. "Het Waterschapshuis" is the directing, managing and implementing organisation for the joint ICT for Dutch water management players. The objective of this Ambassador Platform is to assist ESA's IAP programme in spreading awareness among potential stakeholders (institutions, industry and users) on the theme of Water Management. For more information, please see iap.esa.int/c/water.
About Euregio Meuse Rhine (EMR) The Foundation EMR is statutory seated in Maastricht (NL). The EMR‘s main responsibility is to promote cross-border collaboration in the border region of Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany at regional level (NUTS 3 areas around the city of Maastricht, Liege, Aachen, Hasselt, Leuven). The EMR functions as a turntable at euregional level, as well policy wise between the regional authorities, as well business wise between for the Sme’s. The EMR is supported by the INTERREG program of the European Commission and has a policy record of over 35 years (www.euregio-mr.org). Regarding water management the EMR has been lead partner from several renowed water management projects such as FLAPP and FLOOD-WISE, involving border regions from inside and outside the European Union. The Task Force is an initiative of the EMR to continue these activities involving creative solutions, such as input of the satellite technology.
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1. Background
Climate change is making drought and flooding events more frequent, which in the future years might severely affect the amount and the quality of water of European rivers and basins, with consequences on people’s health and food supply. Given the transnational nature of water ecosystems, the EU Water Framework Directive (23 October 2000) promotes the idea that water management should be considered not only as a national or regional issue, but rather a as a cross-border one. Optimal water use in fact, presupposes close cooperation and coherent actions of water and environmental managers at the EU, national and local levels, as well as involvement and consultation of public and private stakeholders operating in other areas.
The Task Force (TF) Water Governance in border regions, an initiative of the Euregio Meuse Rhine (www.euregio-mr.com), which has been lead partner of several water-management projects, such as the current project FLOOD-WISE (www.floodwise.eu) and the past project FLAPP (www.flapp.org). Its goal is to strengthen knowledge and trans-border collaboration among public authorities, semi-public organisations and private companies active in the water field.
The first meeting of the Task Force took place on 4th of June 2013, and aims at discussing opportunities
to establish partnerships and implement innovative projects in the field of cross-border water management and climate-change adaptation. Eurisy (www.eurisy.org) and APWater (http://iap.esa.int/c/water) contributed to this effort by bringing the examples of European water managers using satellite-based services to face issues related to climate change. These first-hand experiences were presented to the audience with the objective of understanding the potential of these technologies and of discussing how they could be integrated into multi-level water management systems.
2. Introduction
The first meeting of the Task Force Water Governance, the former partners of the INTERREG IVC FLOOD-WISE project, was successfully held on the 4th of June in the European Space Research and Technology Centre -ESTEC (Noordwijk, The Netherlands), with the participation of around 30 people interested in the theme of trans-border collaboration for efficient water management.
See Annexes 1 and 2 for the workshop day.
The best way (easy and effective) to introduce the host ESA/ESTEC is to have a look at the video link "meet ESA": http://www.esa.int/About_Us/Welcome_to_ESA . The video takes only 4 minutes, is didactic and not boring.
The goal of the meeting was to capitalise on the network of the Task Force Water Governance in border regions, established during the FLOOD-WISE project, by gathering ideas for new initiatives to improve water management at local, regional and cross-border levels and by looking at the added value of innovative satellite services in this area. Such ideas were presented by local authorities who are directly responsible for managing the effects of climate-change on water quantity and quality, and for ensuring the respect of relevant national and EU legislation (notably, the EU Water Framework and Floods Directives).
Eurisy contributed to the meeting by inviting, on the one hand, local authorities with experience in using satellite-derived solutions to share their experience. On the other hand, experts from the Netherlands Space Office (NSO) and from ESA’s IAP and its Ambassador Platform for Water Management were invited to feed in their expertise on satellite solutions which may fit the needs of the Task Force, and which could be integrated in future projects.
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3. Capitalizing on experience
The morning session focussed on first-hand experience from public water managers who used or are using satellite services to forecast rain (the Dutch National Rain Radar service); to monitor the effects of climate change on water quality (the Lake Garda Community); to produce flood risk maps on transnational rivers (the Romanian National Institute of Hydrology and Water Management); to assess evapo-transpiration, to monitor dikes and to anticipate/react to water demand and shortages (the Sat-Water initiative).
All presentations underlined the need for multi-level, horizontal and vertical cooperation among local, regional, national and international water authorities and concerned stakeholders in order to raise awareness on satellite solutions that are already available and to ensure new developments fully take into account societal needs.
4. Visit of the European Space Research and Technology Centre
The attendants of the meeting were taken on a guided tour through the Erasmus Highbay, a showcase of the various platforms used by ESA for research in microgravity.
Among the mock-ups in this high bay area is the Columbus laboratory 1 to 1 module. The tour ended with the ISS 3D Virtual Reality Tour. A fly around experience showing the International Space Station (ISS) in its current configuration, both on the out- as well as on the inside. The graphics were alternated with spectacular 3D still and 3D video real time images shot on or from the station.
5. Future opportunities to foster cross border water management
The afternoon session was divided in 2 parts:
- Pitches, project proposals and finally
- Conclusions, appointments and perspectives.
Pitches
With reference to the received ideas, suggestions, proposals and projects we grouped the reactions into 6 categories in the context of a cross border setting. As a warming up for the afternoon session 6 pitches were presented by the authors:
1. Integration and adjustment of EU regulations such as the Water Frame Work Directive and Floods Directive (Harry Tolkamp)
2. Chemical, nuclear, thermal and litter pollution in combination with low discharges (Harry Tolkamp)
3. Land banking and ecological river restoration (Alfred Evers) 4. Sewage treatments and water systems (Harry Tolkamp) 5. Forecast and early warning on flood hazards and pollution accidents (Frank Heijens) 6. Integrated water management , focussing both on flood control and drought management and the
role of groundwater use and applications of MARS systems (Bert Satijn)
These pitches are listed in annex 3.
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Project proposals
10 project ideas were received and more or less regrouped, merged into each other, discussed and concluded. For the original ideas see annex 4.
1 Institute: University of Liege – Research group Hydraulics in Environmental and Civil Engineering (HECE) Benjamin Dewals
Fine spatial scale, a must for risk estimation Enhanced flood risk estimation at a fine spatial scale. While climate change and rainfall-runoff processes are satisfactorily modelled at a relatively large spatial scale, other environmental changes as well as flood hazard, exposure and vulnerability need to be modelled at much finer spatial scales to capture the relevant processes. Data, methods and experience are still lacking to address this issue, while this is critical to guide the design of adaptation measures based on sound estimates of future flood risk.
2 Institute: HydroScan, WISE-RTD Association Guido Vaes
Feasible decision support system Instead of real time modelling and forecasting an intermediate solution is to build is presented to build a Decision Support System based upon the information of different sources/authorities/countries and of different kind (different models, different measurements, …) and combine the outputs to one real time flood risk map that is provided to the users online through a GIS web viewer.
3 Ministerie van I enM, DGRW and Rijkswaterstaat (RWS) Aleksandra Jaskula
Minimum ecological flow Quantification of the effects of climate change on low flows, water quality and the user functions in the Meuse basin. Quantification of the minimum ecological flow and determining the structural and non structural measures for sustainable supply and demand management for surface water and groundwater.
Key question your project aims to answer: How to set the boundary conditions for determining a minimal ecological flow in river basins, under future climate and socio-economical changes – using the Meuse as a case study
4 Kastoro Consulting Gijsbert Tweehuysen
River Litter sampling A new method to assess the amount of litter in a river (this project is an integrated part of the Mosa Pura project). How can the developed sampling method be further optimized to quantify the presence of river litter as an indicator for the land-based contribution to marine debris and as a tool for assessment the potential of solution-oriented products and services?
5,6 Central Research Institute for Complex Use of Water Resources (CRICUWR) Minsk, Republic of Belarus Harry Tolkamp
Harmonization of legislation of the Republic of Belarus In the field of assessment and management of flood risks with EU regulation. a number of issues which is need to be harmonized with EU legislation, in particular flood risks assessment and flood risks management using most effective and progressive EU practices in the area and by execution of a pilot project in the
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transboundary Neman river between Belarus and Lithuania. Improvement of water resources management and international cooperation through cross-border harmonization of different approaches.
Problems which have to be harmonized between Belarus and Poland:
1. Different standards of water quality (e.g. due to higher natural background levels of Mg, Fe and Cu).
2. Definition and selection of water bodies. 3. Classification of water bodies (typology) based
upon hydro-morphological parameters. 4. Characterization of the water bodies on ecological,
hydro-morphological and physic-chemical status.
7 Central Research Institute for Complex Use of Water Resources (CRICUWR) Minsk, Republic of Belarus Alfred Evers
Establishment of an International Committee of Bug River Basin A legal and institutional basis will be developed for the establishment of an International Committee for the Bug River Basin (Poland, Belarus, Ukraine) by making use of the experiences of existing international river basin committee’s within the EU (ICPDR, IMC, IRC, etc.).
8 ICRP-Gabriel Lippmann Belvaux Luxembourg Lucien Hoffmann (not present)
Draught early warning The general aim is to use satellite data combined to in-situ data to improve drought early warning and monitoring for an improved management of agricultural crops.
APPROACH: Combine Earth observation data with in-situ data to provide, at high temporal and spatial scales, maps of soil moisture, evapotranspiration, plant stress in order to derive indices useful for crop management.
9 ICRP-Gabriel Lippmann Belvaux Luxembourg Patrick Matgen (not present)
Operational flood forecasting The overall goal of this project is to demonstrate the merit of jointly assimilating soil moisture and flood extent information into operational flood forecasting systems. This project will thus focus on the remote sensing of the two most important variables that govern the hydrologic and hydraulic models: soil moisture and flood extent. The outcome of this project will demonstrate that operational water management would greatly benefit from updating the models using both types of remotely sensed information simultaneously.
Key question your project aims to answer: Can the predictive uncertainty of operational flood forecasting systems be reduced via the periodical assimilation of remote sensing-derived soil moisture and flood extent observations?
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10 Municipality Rogaška Slatina Slovenia Kristijan Novak (not present)
Vonarje Lake ecological balance in flood protection Flood Protection measures on the border river Sotla (international border river between Croatia and Slovenia) with the focus on the revitalization of the Vonarje Lake area to ensure the conditions for future cross-border activities; flood protection, tourism. cross-border revitalization plan
Source: Task Force Water Governance for border regions
6. Conclusions, appointments and perspectives
Some of the before mentioned project ideas included the use of satellite applications to enhance cross-border cooperation. These satellite applications could support the harmonisation of the information used by water managers in different countries and at different levels. At the same time they could help to quantify, to prevent and to face the effects of climate change on water quality and could improve the efficiency of operational flood forecasting systems, among others. Eurisy will endeavour to follow-up and report on how these ideas will be implemented in future projects.
"The first meeting of the task force water governance put on relieve many needs to improve water management operations as well as to respond to floods and water related emergencies. It became relevant that from some of these need innovative ideas and may provide solutions relaying on terrestrial and space technologies. IAP is looking forward to a more consolidated description of those ideas that make evident the relevance of space technologies. From this point onwards, IAP would like to explore together with the TFWG, private industry and/or R&D institutions, the better use of ESA resources (IAP programme) in order to capitalise such ideas, in the form of feasibility studies first and demonstration project after, as a way to become operational and sustainable solutions.
The IAP goal is to improve water governance by the means or help of space technology.
Intermezzo
IAP proved this process by publishing an Invitation to Tender AO/1-7563/13/NL/EM on 10 June 2013. Please read the Statement of Work.
The title:Water Availability-Improved Monitoring, Forecasting and Control of Water Availability, Quality and Distribution
Deadline: 2nd
September 2013
Budget: maximum € 500.000, Remember first you have to register at ESA.
This is not the only way of tendering; you also might put forward your own ideas to IAP all year around. This is called an open call for proposals. The result of these open calls depends on direct negotiation with IAP. So you are also invited to submit your own ideas.
Finally the meeting highlighted the need to foster awareness of operational satellite services among public authorities, since they are in the ideal position to enable society to benefit from investments in satellite infrastructure.
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FIRST MEETING OF THE TASK FORCE WATER
GOVERNANCE
Water management and climate
change: innovative solutions to
enhance cross-border
collaboration
EUROPEAN SPACE RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY CENTRE
4 JUNE 2013, NOORDWIJK, THE NETHERLANDS
Workshop Announcement and Programme
With the support of
Co-organised with
cooperation with
Eurisy. 94 bis Avenue de Suffren. 75015 Paris. France. www.eurisy.org. [email protected]
9:00 - 09:15 Welcome of participants
Alfred Evers, Project Coordinator, INTERREG IVC ‘FLOOD-WISE’ Network/ Task Force Water Governance
Stefaan De Mey, Secretary General, Eurisy
Norbert Hübner, Head of Feasibility Studies Section, Integrated Applications Promotion programme-IAP, ESA/ ESTEC
09:15 - 09:45 Introductions
Jasper van Loon, Advisor Science and Applications, Netherlands Space Office -NSO
Piet Reijers, Relationship and Innovation Manager, Het Waterschapshuis / APWater and César Bastón Canosa, Integrated Applications Promotion programme, ESA/ESTEC
09:45 - 10:15 Coffee break
10:15 - 11:30 Capitalising on experience: satellite services to improve
water management
Representatives of water administrations share their experience in using satellite services.
Hanneke Schuurmans, Project Leader/ Hydrology Consultant, Royal HaskoningDHV, The Netherlands “National Rain Radar: precise rain forecasts for water managers”
Nicola Gallinaro, Eulakes Project Manager, Lake Garda Community, Italy “Effects of Climate Change on European Lakes: from knowledge to coordinated actions”
René van der Zwan, Senior Hydrologist, Rijnland District Water Control Board, The Netherlands “Sat-Water Initiative: a water-board alliance to optimise water use for agriculture”
Mary-Jeanne Adler, Scientific Director, National Institute of Hydrology and Water Management / Senior Adviser, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Romania “Danube Flood Hazard and Risk Maps Atlas: an integrated approach for the Danube Basin”
11:30 - 12:30 Visit of the European Space Research and Technology
Centre
12:30 - 14:00 Networking lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Future opportunities to foster cross-border water
management
Presentation of project ideas for future implementation submitted by water managers to the Task Force Water Governance.
Moderator: Harry Tolkamp, Senior Strategic Policy Advisor, Waterschap Roer en Overmaas/ Project Development Team, Task Force Water Governance
15:00 - 15:15 Coffee break
Eurisy. 94 bis Avenue de Suffren. 75015 Paris. France. www.eurisy.org. [email protected]
15:15 - 16:00 Open discussion: transferability of good practices and
potential alliances for innovation support
Representatives, members and potential members of the Task Force Water Governance will discuss possible synergies to implement long and short-term initiatives to facilitate multi-level water management and cross-border cooperation. The water managers in the room will evaluate the usefulness of the satellite services previously presented and discuss their possible integration into future initiatives.
Facilitators: Harry Tolkamp, Fred van den Brink and Alfred Evers, members of the Project Development Team of the Task Force Water Governance
16:00 - 16:30 Conclusions and appointments
Harry Tolkamp, Senior Strategic Policy Advisor, Waterschap Roer en Overmaas/ Project Development Team, Task Force Water Governance
Stefaan De Mey, Secretary General, Eurisy
Eurisy. 94 bis Avenue de Suffren. 75015 Paris. France. www.eurisy.org. [email protected]
Background
Climate change is making drought and flooding events more frequent, which in the future years might severely affect the amount and the quality of water of European rivers and basins, with consequences on people’s health and food supply. Given the transnational nature of water ecosystems, the EU Water Framework Directive (23 October 2000) promotes the idea that water management should be considered not only as a national or regional issue, but rather a as a cross-border one. Optimal water use in fact, presupposes close cooperation and coherent actions of water and environmental managers at the EU, national and local levels, as well as involvement and consultation of public and private stakeholders operating in other areas. The Task Force (TF) Water Governance is an initiative of the Euregio Meuse Rhine, which has been lead partner of several water-management projects, such as the current project FLOOD-WISE (www.floodwise.eu) and the past project FLAPP (www.flapp.org). Its goal is to strengthen knowledge and trans-border collaboration among public authorities, semi-public organisations and private companies active in the water field. The first meeting of the Task Force aims at discussing opportunities to establish partnerships and implement innovative projects in the field of cross-border water management and climate-change adaptation. Eurisy and APWater will contribute to this effort by bringing the examples of European water managers using satellite-based services to face issues related to climate change. These first-hand experiences will be presented to the audience with the objective of understanding the potential of these technologies and of discussing how they could be integrated into multi-level water management systems.
About Eurisy
Eurisy is a non-profit association of space agencies financed to raise awareness of satellite applications, including those derived from the two flagship investment programmes of the EU in satellite infrastructure, namely Galileo – the European global satellite navigation system and Copernicus – the European Earth observation programme. For more information, please see www.eurisy.org.
About APWater
The Ambassador Platform for Water Management (APWater) of ESA's Integrated Applications Promotion (IAP) programme (http://iap.esa.int) is hosted by Het Waterschapshuis (http://www.hetwaterschapshuis.nl) in Amersfoort, The Netherlands. "Het Waterschapshuis" is the directing, managing and implementing organisation for the joint ICT for Dutch water management players. The objective of this Ambassador Platform is to assist ESA's IAP programme in spreading awareness among potential stakeholders (institutions, industry and users) on the theme of Water Management. For more information, please see iap.esa.int/c/water.
Registration
Participation is by invitation only and attendance is free.
Annex 2: Participant List First Meeting Task Force Water Governance
Last Name First Name Organization Workshop E-Mail Adler Mary Jeanne Nat Inst Hydrology x [email protected]
Barbier Christian University of Liege x [email protected]
Basoni Anna Lake Garda Community, It x
Baston Cesar ESA/ESTEC x [email protected]
Branislav Pekic Embassy of the Republic of Serbia [email protected]
Canosa Cesar Baston ESA/ESTEC x [email protected]
de Bijl Joop Waterschap AA en Maas x [email protected]
De Groof Arnaud Spacebel x [email protected]
De Mey Stefaan Eurisy x [email protected]
De Ruijter Marcel Unie van Waterschappen, the Hague x [email protected]
Dewals Benjamin University opf Liege x [email protected]
Evers Alfred Task Force x [email protected]
Fiore Grazia Eurisy x [email protected]
Gallinaro Nicola Lake Garda Community x
Heijens Frank Waterschap Roer en Overmmaas x [email protected]
Hendriks Angelique Provincie Limburg x [email protected]
Hoffmann Lucien Centre de Recherche Public -Gabriel Lippmann [email protected]
Horlait Jean Charles SPW x [email protected]
Hübner Norbert ESA/ESTEC x [email protected]
Jaskula Aleksandra Rijkswaterstaat x [email protected]
Jolink Erik Waterschap Hunze en Aas [email protected]
Kapersma Hoogheemraadschap Delftland x [email protected]
Kuypers Hill Government Service Land Water Managment [email protected]
Ledent Philippe Spacebel [email protected]
Leujeune Martine AMICE x [email protected]
Mooren Hans Benelux x [email protected]
Novak Kristijan Rogaska Slatina Slov [email protected]
Porojan Stefaan Embassy of Ramania [email protected]
Rijers Piet Warterschapshuis x [email protected]
Satijn Bert Centre Water Governance x [email protected]
Schuurmans Hanneke HaskoniongDHV x [email protected]
Semeniuk Oleksander Embassy Ukraine x [email protected]
Sephton Tony ESA Oxfordshire United Kingdom x [email protected]
Tolkamp Harry Task Force x [email protected]
Tweehuysen Gijsbert Kastoro Consulting x [email protected]
Tychon Bernard University of Liege, Campus Arlon x [email protected]
van Benthem Marlen Netherlands Space Office NSO
van den Brink Fred Province of Limburg [email protected]
van Erp Piet Waterschap Regge en Dinkel (WRD) x [email protected]
van Loon Jasper Netherlands Space Office NSO x
Vilters Roger IGL BV x [email protected]
Zwan van der René ESA STA Water Availability Tender Representative x [email protected]
Annex 3 Cross border integration and adjustment of EU Water Frame Work Directive and Floods Directive
Problem description
EU directives such as the WFD and the FD address member states but embrace the so-called integrated
River Basin approach, which means that the scope of measures should be seen in the perspective of the
whole river basin and not from within the member states themselves.
Result of this is that cross-border adjustment of goals and measures is a minor issue in river basin
management plans, leading to inequality of plans in the border region, problems of harmonizing goals and
adjustment of measures, left out cross-border investments.
Objectives
Stimulating cross-border cooperation on mutual vision and harmonizing goals and measures
Development of appointments of regular exchange of data
Learning from each other
Key questions to be answered
How to harmonize goals and measures and adjustments of plans in border regions?
How to define goals?
How to identify benefits of cross-border investments?
Possible proposal
Exchange of obstacles and solutions on the addressed problems via pilot study areas in border regions
Development of mutual vision and path way to harmonize goals and measures
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Chemical, nuclear, thermal and litter pollution in combination with low discharges
Problem description
Many rivers in the EU and beyond are confronted with pollution from various origin and nature.
Despite regulation and water purification there are relatively new problems water managers are
confronted with, such as nuclear, thermal, litter and new chemical compounds, which are not cleared via
the normal water purification sites. Climate change even worsens this problem since both high as well as
low discharges may enlarge these water quality problems. In many cases the low lying countries receive
the most problems, so cross-border cooperation is needed.
Objectives
Identification of scale of problems, possible solutions
Exchange of possible solutions and ways to cooperate across the borders to resolve the problems
Key questions to be answered
How big is the problem, what can we do about it?
Which cross-border actions should be taken?
Possible proposal
Exchange knowledge between river basins and between bordering countries
Identify good practices and possible solutions
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Land banking and ecological river restoration
Problem description
In recent years Europe suffered from major damaging floods. Traditional ways to tackle flooding such as
building higher dykes are not sufficient anymore. Current policies increasingly use the concept of “room for the river” and controlled flooding. This will lead to considerable claims on land along river banks.
Objectives
A more integrated and larger-scale approach for river restoration projects is becoming common policy.
The varieties of land use often implicate complex ownership situations to deal with in river restoration
projects, and within more extended areas.
In many countries, a range of new legislation and policies have already led to a demand for new,
alternative river restoration tools and techniques, often by wider environmental improvements, such as
water quality, or multiple land use.
Often the most evident barrier for new developments forms the acquisition of land (or rights to change
land use). Without alternative mechanisms such as strategic spatial land-use planning and the land bank-
type initiatives evident in the Netherlands, integrated solutions aiming at multiple benefits such as flood
control and nature conservation may remain limited pan-Europe.
Key questions
1 Land use planning
Land use planning is an important tool for optimal integration of water issues in spatial planning of rural
areas. This is certainly the case when applied in projects aimed at nature development, river ecosystem
conservation and protection, ensuring (agricultural) sustainability at the same time.
2 Land Banking
Land planning is one of the instruments to deal with ongoing territorial changes in land use. Land use and
land ownership structures can be re- arranged by a coordinated programme of buying, selling, leasing
and exchange of land between different owners and users: Land banking. This involves both acquisition
and temporary land management.
Possible proposal
Land development requires new partnerships between public and private sectors and stakeholders and
collaborative ways of working. Networks have to include a mix of organisations dealing with policy
development, implementation and research/innovation. It is important to integrate river restoration
programs or flood protection policies and ambitions with economic, environmental, infrastructural policies.
Communication, information and sharing of knowledge and (field) experiences with land use planning and
land banking enhances the success of river restoration.
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Sewage treatment and water systems
The speed with which countries in Europe implement new sewage treatment techniques varies strongly
with both technical insights and political drives.
It is well known at the moment that pharmaceuticals (hormones, medicines and their metabolites, micro-
plastics from skin products, etc.) are an upcoming problem for both our drinking water production and the
surface water quality.
Switzerland already decided to prescribe the extra treatment step to remove these substances at the
sewage treatment plants, which is a safe method to protect the surface and groundwater quality against
contamination with pharmaceuticals. But is this the best place to tackle the problem?
Would it not be more cost effective to spend the necessary investments earlier in the water cycle, at the
source (use less product; use better degradable products; prevent the substances from entering the water
cycle; remove or neutralize hazardous substances somewhere between the living place and the sewage
treatment plant; use of advances treatment systems at the drinking water preparation plant; etc.)?
Research on the treatment possibilities and the timing of the implementation could benefit from
international harmonization and exchange of experiences.
Development of new concepts of sewage treatment might benefit from international cooperation and
comparison of the efficiency of various treatment systems and sizes.
New concepts on waste water treatment, not seeing the waste water as waste but as a valuable source of
products may create new conditions and new design criteria for the used water factories.
And in this light also there may be a paradigm shift necessary. Sewage treatment has grown up scale the
last 3 decennia based on the old knowledge that larger plants are less sensitive to small disturbances,
cost less in energy consumption, are more robust and in the end are most cost effective.
At the same time these plants are built for at least 30 or 40 years, but renovated every 10 or 15 years.
This means it is very difficult and really an inescapable loop of investments and improvements. This
hinders true innovative approaches and also makes it almost impossible to downscale.
Downscaling may have many advantages, e.g. less transport, less pipe maintenance, less renovations,
while plants can be smaller, are easier to adapt to new circumstances and are easier to build. Especially
when there is really no discharge to surface water in a concept that uses the used water as a source of
basic materials to produce several kinds of reused water, fertilizer, nutrients, building materials, energy,
polymers, etc.
Developing new concepts to enhance this paradigm shift is the challenge for the coming years. Of course
we cannot abolish the existing plants, but especially with changing population densities, new insights in
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water treatment methods, a start should be made.
This can make use of the principle of the modular sustainable treatment facilities as they are now being
developed in Limburg by the Water Treatment Company (WBL) of the Regional Water Authorities in
Limburg (NL). Flexibility in design, in building and in operation might be the answer to these future
challenges.
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Forecast and early warning on flood hazards and pollution accidents
Problem description
An important issue during flood hazards is the uncertainty of what is going to happen. When does a flood
wave reach his top and how high will the water come? Flood forecasting and early warning systems can
reduce this uncertainty and can help making decisions about taking emergency-measures and informing
people.
During pollution accidents good information about the flow of the polluted water can help taking the right
measures on the right place and time and is again helpful with informing the people.
Example: For the river Roer WaterschapRoer en Overmaas is thinking about the development of a flood
forecasting system. As the Roer is a cross-border river originating in Germany a cross-border cooperation
is necessary.
Possible objectives
Development of a cross-border forecasting/early warning system
Development of a cross-border monitoring network on water quantity and water quality
Learning from each other
Creation of financial benefits (cross-border/large scale contracting)
Key questions to be answered
Are there other organisations which have plans for flood forecasting in cross-border rivers?
Definition of common goals
Practical:
Building one cross-border forecasting model
Realtime hydrologic data available across the border
Accessibility of the model: where is it, who runs and maintains it
…
Possible proposal
Basic: Exchange of knowledge on cross-border flood forecasting and early warning systems
Optimal: joint development (transnational or international) of forecast or warning systems in more cross
border river catchments with focus on floods and pollution accidents
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Integrated water management , focussing both on flood control and drought management and the role of groundwater use and applications of MARS systems
MARS= Management of Aquifer Recharge and Storage (MARS). MARS advocates the use of the buffering capacities of the underground for water not only in case of drought but also in case of heavy rainfalls.
Problem description
Water scarcity caused by droughts and higher risks of floods are challenging national authorities and
regional water operators and require optimal integrated water resources management.
The geological and climatologically characteristics are a decisive factor whether the conditions are
proper for the MARS method and that the concerned region is able to obtain a sustainable situation to
optimize the buffering capacities of the natural underground water reservoirs, called aquifers.
Objectives
To use and buffer capacity of aquifers in order to obtain integrated water security, water safety
Finally developing a tool for the Management of Aquifer Recharge and Storage
Key questions to be answered
- geo-hydrolical and climatoligical surveys of the region
- dry periods, how to extract groundwater
- flood period, how to use aquifers as storage how to recharge groundwater
- water balance
Possible proposal The project- Management of Aquifer Recharge and Storage (MARS) advocates the use of the buffering capacities of the underground for water not only in case of drought but also in case of heavy rainfalls. In Romania the end-users of this technique are mainly water companies that have
- to secure the water supply sources for long term. - the technique of water storage in the underground is also of potential interest for local managing
authorities in the cases that heavy rainfalls, and for agriculture that face already today water scarcity problems.”
As aquifers are not bound to country borders, the groundwater problem is a groundwater governance issue.
PS Definition Water governance: WG is the art of coordinating administrative actions and decision making
between and among different actors.
Its success depends on a number of capacities of these actors to apply a wide variety of social and
technical sciences. Water governance is worldwide related to three issues: food security, climate change
and energy.
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Applying agency (authority, organization, company, River basin Commission, etc.) Institute: University of Liege – Research group Hydraulics in Environmental and Civil Engineering (HECE)
Contact person: Prof. Benjamin Dewals, Prof. Michel Pirotton, Dr Pierre Archambeau
Postal address: Department ArGEnCo, Chemin des Chevreuils 1, Bat B52/3
Visiting address:
Postal code: 4000
City: Liege
Country: Belgium
Telephone: +3243669283
E-mail:[email protected] , [email protected] , [email protected]
Project proposal Category/Sector (technical, institutional, legal, policy, financial, communication, others (please specify): Technical /
scientific
Brief description of the project: Enhanced flood risk estimation at a fine spatial scale
Objective
Please formulate the proje t’s goals i a few se te es: While climate change and rainfall-runoff processes are satisfactorily modeled at a relatively large
spatial scale, other environmental changes as well as flood hazard, exposure and vulnerability need
to be modeled at much finer spatial scales to capture the relevant processes. Data, methods and
experience are still lacking to address this issue, while this is critical to guide the design of
adaptation measures based on sound estimates of future flood risk. Key question your project aims to answer:
Beneficiaries
Who will e efit fro the proje t’s results: Planning authorities
Location Where is the project located:
Actors
Lead partner:
Partners requested:
Project duration
What will be the duration of the project:
Budget estimation
Annex 4
What is the estimated budget needed:
Type of program for funding (INTERREG V, FP7, LIFE +, etc.)
Indicate which type of funding you have in mind:
Do you need help with finding the right funding?
Task Force Water Governance (TFWG), with special focus on border regions
Task Force Water Governance Project Development Team Phone: +31 (0)43 3897487; Postal address: P.O. Box 5700 | 6202 MA Maastricht | The Netherlands General email: [email protected] Contacts: Alfred Evers: [email protected]. +31 6 5495 6148 Harry Tolkamp: [email protected]. +31 6 5237 5690 Fred van den Brink: [email protected]: +31 43 3897499
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Applying agency (authority, organization, company, River basin Commission, etc.) Institute: HydroScan, WISE-RTD Association
Contact person: Guido Vaes
Postal address: Diestsesteenweg 104A
Visiting address:
Postal code:B-3010
City:Kessel-lo (Leuven)
Country:Belgium
Telephone:+32 16 24 05 01
E-mail: [email protected]
Project proposal Category/Sector (technical, institutional, legal, policy, financial, communication, others (please specify):
Brief description of the project:
Traditional warning systems for flood are based upon measures of rainfall or water levels in
combination with experience/expert judgment. With the fact that modeling becomes more popular
and real time computing becomes more or less feasible, some authorities developed online warning
systems based on real time modeling and forecasting (i.e. Flemish Environment Agency flood
warning model). This however involves large computer power, integration of the whole water
system in one model fed by measurements over the whole catchment. Apart from the costs to set
up this system and the expertise and manpower to keep it running, it also involves problems
integration of the water system, certainly in border regions or where different water authorities at
different scales have to collaborate. Therefore an intermediate solution is to build a Decision
Support System based upon the information of different sources/authorities/countries and of
differe t ki d differe t odels, differe t easure e ts, … a d o i e the outputs to o e real time flood risk map that is provided to the users online through a GIS web viewer. Each subregion,
authority can create maps with flood risk zones for different probabilities using their own models or
even experience-based maps. Each of them also provides their specific real time measurements.
Based upon an algorithm that processes the measurements statistically in real time (that can go
fast) the proper maps of each subregion are selected from the database of risk zones and put
together to a catchment wide unique map for the real time situation. This map is updated in real
time when new measurements are in real time arriving on the server. This map is shown in a web
viewer and combined with other information that can be useful for the flood management.
Objective
Please for ulate the proje t’s goals i a few se te es: Provide a better support to flood management during crisis situations and provide a kind of forecast
that integrates the domain of different water authorities, even cross-border. Key question your project aims to answer:
Beneficiaries
Who will e efit fro the proje t’s results: Water managers, disaster management services
Location
Where is the project located:
Actors
Lead partner:
Partners requested:
Project duration
What will be the duration of the project:
Budget estimation
What is the estimated budget needed:
Type of program for funding (INTERREG V, FP7, LIFE +, etc.)
Indicate which type of funding you have in mind:
Do you need help with finding the right funding?
Task Force Water Governance (TFWG), with special focus on border regions
Task Force Water Governance Project Development Team Phone: +31 (0)43 3897487; Postal address: P.O. Box 5700 | 6202 MA Maastricht | The Netherlands General email: [email protected] Contacts: Alfred Evers: [email protected]. +31 6 5495 6148 Harry Tolkamp: [email protected]. +31 6 5237 5690 Fred van den Brink: [email protected] t: +31 43 3897499
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June 2013
Applying agency (authority, organization, company, River basin Commission, etc.)
Institute:Ministerie van IenM, DGRW and Rijkswaterstaat (RWS)
Contact person: Saskia Onnink (DGRW), Hendrik Buiteveld (RWS)
Postal address: P.O. Box 20901, 2500 EX The Hague, The Netherlands
Visiting address: Plesmanweg 1-6
Postal code: 2597 JG
City: The Hague
Country: The Netherlands
Telephone: +31621160597
E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]
Project proposal
Category/Sector (technical, institutional, legal, policy, financial, communication, others (please specify): policy, technical
Brief description of the project:
According to the Interreg project AMICE, but also other projects, climate change will influence water management in the
Meuse basin. There are several future water management challenges, which are also present in other international river
basins. The issues range from setting up transnational scenarios, a common way of analyzing effects and to identifying
possible measures.
The project should strengthen the cooperation within the river basin and promote the cooperation between river basins.
The project should deliver building block usable in the River basin Commission.
The general umbrella is the effects of climate and socio-economical changes on user functions. More specific there are the
following subjects:
- impacts on low flow, water quality and water temperature and the consequences for the functions
- how a minimal ecological flow can be maintained in the Meuse basin
- water supply and demand, now and in the future
Objective
Please for ulate the proje t’s goals i a few se te es: Quantification of the effects of climate change on low flows, water quality and the user functions in the Meuse basin.
Quantification of the minimum ecological flow and determining the structural and non structural measures for sustainable
supply and demand management for surface water and groundwater.
Key question your project aims to answer:
How to set the boundary conditions for determining a minimal ecological flow in river basins, under future climate and
socio-economical changes – using the Meuse as a case study
Beneficiaries
Who will e efit fro the proje t’s results: The operational water managers of the sub districts in the different countries of the International Meuse district. The
partners in the Treaty of the Meuse, cooperating in the IMC. The inhabitants of the Meuse district.
Location
Where is the project located:
Meuse Basin
Actors
Lead partner:
Partners requested:
Research partners and operational water managers of France- (Rhin-Meuse), Wallonie, Flanders, The Netherlands and if
possible Germany and Luxemburg too. Partners from other river basins.
Project duration
What will be the duration of the project:
4 year
Budget estimation
What is the estimated budget needed:
3-4.000.000
Type of program for funding (INTERREG V, FP7, LIFE +, etc.)
Indicate which type of funding you have in mind:
INTERREG
case study in FP7 project
Do you need help with finding the right funding? Yes
Task Force Water Governance (TFWG), with special focus on border regions
Task Force Water Governance Project Development Team Phone: +31 (0)43 3897487; Postal address: P.O. Box 5700 | 6202 MA Maastricht | The Netherlands General email: [email protected] Contacts: Alfred Evers: [email protected]. +31 6 5495 6148 Harry Tolkamp: [email protected]. +31 6 5237 5690 Fred van den Brink: [email protected] t: +31 43 3897499
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Applying agency (authority, organization, company, River basin Commission, etc.)
Institute: Kastoro Consulting
Contact person: ir. Gijsbert P.J. Tweehuysen
Postal address: Luiperbeekstraat 23 Klimmen
Visiting address: Luiperbeekstraat 23
Postal code: 6343 PT
City: Klimmen
Country: the Netherlands
Telephone: +31 (0) 653693382
E-mail: [email protected]
Project proposal
Category/Sector (technical, institutional, legal, policy, financial, communication, others (please specify): technical
Brief description of the project:
River Litter sampling: a new method to assess the amount of litter in a river (this project is an
integrated part of the Mosa Pura project)
Objective
Please for ulate the proje t’s goals i a few se te es: Plastic litter pollutes the oceans. Most of this litter originates from land, transported by rivers to the
sea. There is no method to date that can quantify this contribution. Last year a sampling method
has been developed, but further development and testing is needed to be able to assess the
contribution of European rivers to the amount of marine debris in the European seas. This project
can support European authorities with a measuring tool to set standards, develop legislation and
define mitigating measures aimed at reduction at source. It will also support industries to develop
products and services to recover or prevent river litter. Key question your project aims to answer:
How can the developed sampling method be further optimized to quantify the presence of river
litter as an indicator for the land-based contribution to marine debris and as a tool for assessment
the potential of solution-oriented products and services?
Beneficiaries
Who will e efit fro the proje t’s results:
River authorities, industries, water users and the general public, municipal, regional, national and
supra national authorities.
Location
Where is the project located:
In 4 European rivers (apart from the Meuse, no other rivers are selected yet)
Actors
Lead partner:
? Partners requested:
Lo al a d atio al authorities, Water oards, RBC’s IMC , U iversities, o pa ies re overy a d recycling companies)
Project duration
What will be the duration of the project:
4 years
Budget estimation
What is the estimated budget needed:
Budget based on the costs for (additional) equipment development, sampling, analyzing and
(scientific) reporting for 1 year in 1 river: € 75.000. Total budget for 4 rivers, for 4 years: € 1.200.000.
Type of program for funding (INTERREG V, FP7, LIFE +, etc.)
Indicate which type of funding you have in mind: ? ?
Do you need help with finding the right funding? Yes
Task Force Water Governance (TFWG), with special focus on border regions
Task Force Water Governance Project Development Team Phone: +31 (0)43 3897487; Postal address: P.O. Box 5700 | 6202 MA Maastricht | The Netherlands General email: [email protected] Contacts: Alfred Evers: [email protected]. +31 6 5495 6148 Harry Tolkamp: [email protected]. +31 6 5237 5690 Fred van den Brink: [email protected] t: +31 43 3897499
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Applying agency (authority, organization, company, River basin Commission, etc.)
Institute: Central Research Institute for Complex Use of Water Resources (CRICUWR)
Contact person: Vladimir Korneev
Postal address: ½ Slavinskogo str., Minsk, Republic of Belarus
Visiting address: ½ Slavinskogo str., Minsk, Republic of Belarus
Postal code: 220086
City: Minsk
Country: Republic of Belarus
Telephone: +375 17 2634833
E-mail: [email protected]
Project proposal
Category/Sector (technical, institutional, legal, policy, financial, communication, others (please specify):
Legal, institutional, policy, technical.
Tentative working title:
Harmonization of legislation of Flood Risk Management tools.
Brief description of the project:
In Belarus, health of communities and environmental protection has progressively emerged as
major police issues for the government. Since 1999 significant progress has been achieved in
introduction the principles of international environmental legal acts and commitments, leading to a
revision of the national legislative framework. The country has now a well-developed legal system
with a considerable number of Belarusian laws. However much remains to be done to harmonize
the national legal acts with the EU legislation. In the field of water management the main legal
document is Water Code (1998). In order to improve water legislation, a series of laws on
amendments and adjustments to Water Code of the Republic of Belarus (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010)
were prepared.
A new version of Water Code containing river basin management principle and surface water
quality assessment based on EU regulations was developed in 2013. Legal and institutional
framework of Belarus in water management of Belarus is progressively enough. However there are
a still a number of issues which is need to be harmonized with EU legislation, in particular flood risks
assessment and flood risks management using most effective and progressive EU practices in the
area and by execution of a pilot project in the transboundary Neman river between Belarus and
Lithuania.
Objective
Please for ulate the proje t’s goals i a few se te es: Harmonization of legislation of the Republic of Belarus in the field of assessment and management
of flood risks with EU regulation.
Key question your project aims to answer:
Improvement of national legislation and development of technical documents to be discussed with
the Ministry of Environment. The project aims to extend capacity of the Republic of Belarus in
strategic planning and governance in the field of flood risk management and relevant information
exchange across borders and institutes. In particular, the project will suggest adjustment of the
national flood risk management framework to the EU regulations to cover gaps in the current
legislation. The project will contribute additional efforts to raise flood risks awareness by
implementing a pilot project in flood prone territory and by developing a flood risks management
plan for the pilot implementation of the transboundary Neman river between Belarus and
Lithuania.
Beneficiaries
Who will e efit fro the proje t’s results: Ministries of Environment of Belarus and Lithuania, EU.
Location
Where is the project located:
Belarus, Lithuania.
Actors Lead partner:
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Belarus (Min of
Environment)
Central Research Institute for Complex Use of Water Resources (CRICUWR).
Partners requested:
EU-organizations responsible for the monitoring, assessment, and management of water resources,
preferably Vilnius University of Lithuania.
Project duration
What will be the duration of the project:
2- 3 years.
Budget estimation
What is the estimated budget needed:
1000.000-2.000.000 EURO.
Type of program for funding (INTERREG V, FP7, LIFE +, etc.)
Indicate which type of funding you have in mind:
Do you need help with finding the right funding?
Yes.
Task Force Water Governance (TFWG), with special focus on border regions
Task Force Water Governance Project Development Team Phone: +31 (0)43 3897487; Postal address: P.O. Box 5700 | 6202 MA Maastricht | The Netherlands General email: [email protected] Contacts: Alfred Evers: [email protected]. +31 6 5495 6148 Harry Tolkamp: [email protected]. +31 6 5237 5690 Fred van den Brink: [email protected] t: +31 43 3897499
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Applying agency (authority, organization, company, River basin Commission, etc.)
Institute: Central Research Institute for Complex Use of Water Resources (CRICUWR)
Contact person: Vladimir Korneev
Postal address: ½ Slavinskogo str., Minsk, Republic of Belarus
Visiting address: ½ Slavinskogo str., Minsk, Republic of Belarus
Postal code: 220086
City: Minsk
Country: Republic of Belarus
Telephone: +375 17 2634833
E-mail: [email protected]
Project proposal
Category/Sector: technical, institutional, legal, policy, financial, communication, others (please specify):
Legal, Technical.
Tentative working title:
Cross-border harmonization of river basin management tools, taken into account WFD and FRD.
Brief description of the project:
For the implementation of the objectives of European directives such as the Water Framework
Directive and the Flood Risk Directive, countries may have different approaches, which may form an
obstacle for the integration of national plans into an international river basin plan. This holds true
especially in the border region of the EU, where rivers flow from non-EU to EU countries or vice
versa. But also between EU countries harmonization of approaches, such as identification and
characterization of water bodies, may hinder the integrated management of transboundary rivers.
Objective
Please for ulate the proje t’s goals i a few se te es: Improvement of water resources management and international cooperation through cross-border
harmonization of different approaches.
Key question your project aims to answer:
Problems which have to be harmonized between Belarus and Poland:
1. Different standards of water quality (e.g. due to higher natural background levels of Mg, Fe and
Cu).
2. Definition and selection of water bodies.
3. Classification of water bodies (typology) based upon hydro-morphological parameters.
4. Characterization of the water bodies on ecological, hydro-morphological and physic-chemical
status.
Beneficiaries
Who will e efit fro the proje t’s results: Ministries of Environment of Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, and local authorities in these countries. Also
the EU will benefit from this cooperation between EU and non-EU countries through better
implementation of EU regulations.
Location
Where is the project located:
Poland, Belarus, Ukraine.
Actors Lead partner:
Central Research Institute for Complex Use of Water Resources (CRICUWR).
Partners requested:
EU organizations responsible for monitoring, assessment and management of water resources,
preferable:
-Volyn Regional Board of Water Management, Ukraine (Western Bug Basin Water Department,
Lutsk, Ukraine),
-District Office of Włodawa, Poland, -Board of the Lublin Basin Vistula and Bug Borders in Lublin, Poland,
-Institute of Meteorology and Water Management, Warsaw, Poland.
Project duration
What will be the duration of the project:
3 years.
Budget estimation
What is the estimated budget needed:
500.000 EURO.
Type of program for funding (INTERREG V, FP7, LIFE +, etc.)
Indicate which type of funding you have in mind:
Do you need help with finding the right funding?
Yes
Task Force Water Governance (TFWG), with special focus on border regions
Task Force Water Governance Project Development Team Phone: +31 (0)43 3897487; Postal address: P.O. Box 5700 | 6202 MA Maastricht | The Netherlands General email: [email protected] Contacts: Alfred Evers: [email protected]. +31 6 5495 6148 Harry Tolkamp: [email protected]. +31 6 5237 5690 Fred van den Brink: [email protected] t: +31 43 3897499
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Applying agency (authority, organization, company, River basin Commission, etc.)
Institute: Central Research Institute for Complex Use of Water Resources (CRICUWR)
Contact person: Vladimir Korneev
Postal address: ½ Slavinskogo str., Minsk, Republic of Belarus
Visiting address: ½ Slavinskogo str., Minsk, Republic of Belarus
Postal code: 220086
City: Minsk
Country: Republic of Belarus
Telephone: +375 17 2634833
E-mail: [email protected]
Project proposal
Category/Sector (technical, institutional, legal, policy, financial, communication, others (please specify):
Legal, Institutional.
Tentative working title:
Development of integrated river basin approach in water management for the transnational Bug
River Basin through establishment of an International Bug River Basin Committee.
Brief description of the project:
A legal and institutional basis will be developed for the establishment of an International
Committee for the Bug River Basin (Poland, Belarus, Ukraine) by making use of the experiences of
existing i ter atio al ri er asi o ittee’s ithi the EU (ICPDR, IMC, IRC, etc.).
Objective
Please for ulate the proje t’s goals i a few se te es: Development of regulation for the establishment of an International Committee in the Bug River
Basin. Key question your project aims to answer:
Improvement of water resources management and strengthening of international cooperation
through the establishment of a sustainable legal and institutional basis for cross-border
harmonization of data and methods, and the development of plans and measures.
Beneficiaries
Who will e efit fro the proje t’s results: Ministries of Environment of Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, and local authorities in these countries. Also
the EU will benefit from this cooperation between EU and non-EU countries through better
implementation of EU regulations .
Location
Where is the project located:
Poland, Belarus, Ukraine.
Actors Lead partner:
Central Research Institute for Complex Use of Water Resources (CRICUWR).
Partners requested:
EU organizations responsible for monitoring, assessment and management of water resources,
preferable:
-Volyn Regional Board of Water Management, Ukraine (Western Bug Basin Water Department,
Lutsk, Ukraine),
-Distri t Offi e of Włoda a, Poland,
-Board of the Lublin Basin Vistula and Bug Borders in Lublin, Poland,
-Institute of Meteorology and Water Management, Warsaw, Poland.
Project duration
What will be the duration of the project:
2 years.
Budget estimation
What is the estimated budget needed:
250 000 EURO.
Type of program for funding (INTERREG V, FP7, LIFE +, etc.)
Indicate which type of funding you have in mind:
Do you need help with finding the right funding?
Yes.
Task Force Water Governance (TFWG), with special focus on border regions
Task Force Water Governance Project Development Team Phone: +31 (0)43 3897487; Postal address: P.O. Box 5700 | 6202 MA Maastricht | The Netherlands General email: [email protected] Contacts: Alfred Evers: [email protected]. +31 6 5495 6148 Harry Tolkamp: [email protected]. +31 6 5237 5690 Fred van den Brink: [email protected] t: +31 43 3897499
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Date: May 31 2013
No, I participate at the first meeting of the Task Force on 4th
June 2013
Applying agency (authority, organization, company, River basin Commission, etc.) Institute: CRP-Gabriel Lippmann
Contact person: L. Hoffmann
Postal address: 41, rue du Brill
Visiting address:
Postal code: L-4422
City: Belvaux
Country: Luxembourg
Telephone: 00352 470261400
E-mail: [email protected]
Project proposal Category/Sector (technical, institutional, legal, policy, financial, communication, others (please specify):
Brief description of the project:
Objective
Please for ulate the proje t’s goals i a few se te es: BACKGROUND: Projected climate change scenarios indicate for our regions less rainfall and higher
temperatures for the summer period, leading to an increased risk of drought periods for agricultural
crops and thus decrease of agricultural production. It is thus of importance for agricultural crop
management, eg for a farmer to decide whether it is necessary to irrigate fields, to forecast and
monitor whether crops are/will be water-stressed.
AIM: The general aim is to use satellite data combined to in-situ data to improve drought early
warning and monitoring for an improved management of agricultural crops.
APPROACH: Combine Earth observation data with in-situ data to provide, at high temporal and
spatial scales, maps of soil moisture, evapotranspiration, plant stress in order to derive indices
useful for crop management.
Key question your project aims to answer:
Beneficiaries
Who will e efit fro the proje t’s results: Farmers, water managers
Location Where is the project located:
Actors
Lead partner:
Partners requested:
Project duration
What will be the duration of the project:
Budget estimation
What is the estimated budget needed:
Type of program for funding (INTERREG V, FP7, LIFE +, etc.)
Indicate which type of funding you have in mind:
Do you need help with finding the right funding?
Task Force Water Governance (TFWG), with special focus on border regions
Task Force Water Governance Project Development Team Phone: +31 (0)43 3897487; Postal address: P.O. Box 5700 | 6202 MA Maastricht | The Netherlands General email: [email protected] Contacts: Alfred Evers: [email protected]. +31 6 5495 6148 Harry Tolkamp: [email protected]. +31 6 5237 5690 Fred van den Brink: [email protected] t: +31 43 3897499
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Unfortunately, I will not be able to participate at the first meeting of the Task Force on 4th
June
2013
Applying agency (authority, organization, company, River basin Commission, etc.) Institute: Centre de Recherche Public – Gabriel Lippmann
Contact person: Lucien Hoffmann/Patrick Matgen
Postal address: 41, rue du Brill
Visiting address: 41, rue du Brill
Postal code: L-4422
City: Belvaux
Country: Luxembourg
Telephone: (+352) 470261400
E-mail: [email protected]
Project proposal Category/Sector (technical, institutional, legal, policy, financial, communication, others (please specify): institutional
Brief description of the project:
Numerical models are of key importance for flood prediction and disaster management. However, the associated
uncertainties tend to be high, for several reasons, including a lack of reliable hydro-meteorological measurements in
places where they are most needed. Space-borne remote sensing, in particular microwave remote sensing, has emerged
during the past decade as a powerful new measurement technique that has the potential to overcome data scarcity by
providing hydrology-related information (e.g., precipitation, evaporation, soil moisture, discharge) in areas where no
ground measurements exist. However, there is a need to continue investigating how different remote sensing
observations can be periodically assimilated into operational flood prediction systems for reducing the predictive
uncertainty. Microwave remote sensing hold a particularly large potential because the data can be used in two important
ways for flood prediction and monitoring. Firstly, the data can be used to continuously monitor how much water is stored
in the soil as this determines the residual infiltration capacity and secondly, by observing inundated areas during a flood, it
is possible to monitor the propagation of flood waves. Hence, there is an interesting complementarity of soil moisture and
flood extent observations for improved flood prediction. In this project, it will be shown that the joint assimilation of both
data sets into hydrologic-hydraulic models benefits flood predictions.
Objective
Please for ulate the proje t’s goals i a few se te es:
The overall goal of this project is to demonstrate the merit of jointly assimilating soil moisture and flood extent
information into operational flood forecasting systems. This project will thus focus on the remote sensing of the two most
important variables that govern the hydrologic and hydraulic models: soil moisture and flood extent. The outcome of this
project will demonstrate that operational water management would greatly benefit from updating the models using both
types of remotely sensed information simultaneously.
Key question your project aims to answer:
Can the predictive uncertainty of operational flood forecasting systems be reduced via the periodical assimilation of
remote sensing-derived soil moisture and flood extent observations?
Beneficiaries
Who will e efit fro the proje t’s results:
- Water managers operating flood forecasting systems
- Relief organisations (Civil protection, etc.)
- Society at large
Location Where is the project located:
Provisional test areas include transnational river basins (e.g. river Moselle, Zambezi etc.) for which comprehensive remote
sensing data sets have been compiled over the last years. The method can be tested in different catchments.
Actors
Lead partner: Centre de Recherche Public – Gabriel Lippmann
Partners requested:
Stakeholders in flood management operating flood forecasting systems
Research institutes active in the area of microwave remote sensing, hydrological modeling or data assimilation
Project duration
What will be the duration of the project:
Budget estimation
What is the estimated budget needed:
Type of program for funding (INTERREG V, FP7, LIFE +, etc.)
Indicate which type of funding you have in mind:
European Space Agency (e.g. STSE and IAP programs), FP7
Do you need help with finding the right funding?
yes
Task Force Water Governance (TFWG), with special focus on border regions
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of June 2013
Yes/no: I will join the buffet dinner on the 3rd
of June (as off 19.00 h)
Applying agency (authority, organization, company, River basin Commission, etc.) Institute: Mu icipality Rogaška Slati a
Contact person: Mr. Kristijan Novak
Postal address: Izlet iška 2
Visiting address:
Postal code: SI 3250
City: Rogaška Slatina
Country: Slovenia
Telephone: + 386 3 81 81 732
E-mail: [email protected]
Project proposal Category/Sector (technical, institutional, legal, policy, financial, communication, others (please specify): technical,
institutional, financial
Brief description of the project: Flood Protection measures on the border river Sotla (international border river between
Croatia and Slovenia) with the focus on the revitalization of the Vonarje Lake area to ensure the conditions for future
cross-border activities.
Objective
Please for ulate the proje t’s goals i a few se te es: - In the vulnerable cross-border area (nature habitat) find balance between primary goal (flood protection) and
stakeholders initiatives (on one side tourism and on the other national water authorities)
- Find a balance between flood protection measures on the Sotla river and future revitalization of the Vonarje lake
area
- Build co-ordinated measures to eliminate the flood risk in Sotla river basin and focus on provision of financial
resources for these measures
Key question your project aims to answer:
- Who are main stakeholders of the project
- Which responsible authorities to address
- Which experts to address
- How to connect different stakeholders goals into cross-border revitalization plan
Beneficiaries Who will e efit fro the proje t’s results: local and regional communities on both sides of the border
Location Where is the project located: River Sotla, border river between Slovenia and Croatia
Actors
Lead partner: Rogaška Slati a Mu icipality Slove ia
Partners requested: Podčetrtek Mu icipality Slove ia , Hu a Sutli Mu icipality Croatia , Pregrada Mu icipality (Croatia)
Project duration What will be the duration of the project: 3 – 5 years
Budget estimation
What is the estimated budget needed: N/A
Type of program for funding (INTERREG V, FP7, LIFE +, etc.)
Indicate which type of funding you have in mind: INTERREG V
Do you need help with finding the right funding? YES
Task Force Water Governance (TFWG), with special focus on border regions
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