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Event International technical workshop on water balances (Attendance by invitation)

The current pilot action funded by the EC (DG Environment) started with the signing of an agreement on 21 December 2011.

The Coordinating entity is the Spanish Consulting firm Evaluación de Recursos Naturales, S.A. (EVREN), and the main partner is the Euro-Mediterranean Information System on know-how in the Water sector (EMWIS/SEMIDE). In addition, the Júcar River Basin Authority (CHJ) acts as a collaborating entity to ensure the coherence of data compilation and assessment.

The duration of the action is one year extended to 21 March 2013.

 

The objectives of the action:

This action aims at obtaining and assessing socio-economic, environmental and climatic data, develop updated water accounts according to water availability and existing demands in the Júcar River Basin district, all which would allow assessing existing desertification risks. It is intended, through management and water savings recommendations, to contribute to halting water scarcity, drought and desertification in the basin. 

Specific objectives include:

  • Compile and assess data (flows, precipitation, evapotranspiration, climatic aspects, groundwater levels, demands etc.) and adapt them to the European Catchment and Rivers Network System (ECRINS) developed by the EEA; as well as to the UN System of Environmental-Economic Accounting for Water (SEEA-W).
  • Propose a methodology for the management of data and their integration in the aforementioned systems.
  • Obtain updated water accounts and detect desertification risks in the basin.
  • Assess results and transmit them to managers and stakeholders through a participative process.
  • Establish a series of recommendations for feasible water savings options and management measures targets.
  • Transfer and disseminate results to EU and non-EU Mediterranean countries.

Contact information Dr. Jauad El KHARRAZ BP23 - Unité Technique du Système Euro-méditerranéen d’Information sur les savoir-faire dans le Domaine de l’Eau (UT-SEMIDE) - 06901 SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS - FRANCE / Elisa VARGAS, EVREN (email: jauad.el-kharraz@semide.org ; e.mino@semide.org ; evargas@evren.es)
Phone: +33 4 92 94 22 90 / Fax: +33 4 92 94 22 95 // +34 91 5344805 M. +34 629610713 Fax +34 91 1309958
Event type Conference
File link http://www.emwis.net/initiatives/desert-jucar/meetings/final-regional-conference-halt-jucar-des-project-madrid-27-02-2013
File link copy 20130227_agenda_workshopv3_SN.doc (DOC, 86 Kb)
Source EMWIS Technical Unit
Subject(s) AGRICULTURE , FINANCE-ECONOMY , HYDRAULICS - HYDROLOGY , INDUSTRY , INFORMATION - COMPUTER SCIENCES , INFRASTRUCTURES , MEASUREMENTS AND INSTRUMENTATION , METHTODOLOGY - STATISTICS - DECISION AID , NATURAL MEDIUM , POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT , RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY , TOOL TERMS , WATER DEMAND
Relation http://www.emwis.net/initiatives/desert-jucar
Geographical coverage Spain,
Address Madrid
Organizer EVREN and CHJ, in partnership with EMWIS
Target audience Regional
Period 27/02/2013
Status Confirmed
Working language(s) ENGLISH , SPANISH
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