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LIFE & WaterThe EU LIFE Programme
Environment
Title: WIZ - WaterIZe spatial planning: encompass future drinkwater management conditions to adapt to climate change
Project number: LIFE09 ENV/IT/000056
Contact: Oberdan CEI
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.wiz-life.eu/
Title: RESTORE - Rivers: Engaging, Supporting and Transferring knOwledge for Restoration in Europe
Project number: LIFE09 INF/UK/000032
Contact: Environment Agency for England Antonia Scar
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.ecrr.org/
MANAGING
DRINKING
WATER
WIZ The ‘WIZ’ project addresses the pressures on drinking water resources in southern Europe caused by urbanisation and climate change. The project has developed an approach that permits integrating urban planning and climate change in the management of water resources at local level. This approach is made up of two components:
• A decision process that integrates a model for predicting the effects of climate change on the availability of water resources with spatial data provided by municipalities. This model gives water authorities harmonised data and a clearer picture of the water demands in an area, thus improving the validity of investment plans.
• Two online platforms: - WIZ4All: Where citizens can find information about current and future
water availability for specific locations, and also contribute by reporting the perceived quality of the water in their area, or any malfunctions or disservices.
- WIZ4Planners: a decision-support service for local authorities and other stakeholders concerned with territorial and urban planning. It provides information related to estimates of the needs and availability of clean water, with comparisons between settlement scenarios and climatic scenarios, and also gives cost estimates for water supply infrastruc-ture. The open-source code of the WIZ platform engine enables constant improvements to be made to the system.
The project succeeded in developing a model with high potential replicabil-ity that effectively engages all local actors in the management of water resources.
RESTORE River ecosystems throughout Europe have been affected by engineering projects for flood protection, navigation, water supply and hydroelectricity. Sustainable river restoration, which re-establishes ecosystems and their functions, serves to implement both the Habitats Directive and the Water Framework Directive.
The RESTORE project addressed a shortcoming in knowledge transfer in Europe on river restoration activities. The project aimed to develop a knowl-edge-exchange network linking policy-makers, river basin planners, practi-tioners and experts.
The project’s main outputs were the development of the European river restoration website (www.restorerivers.eu), which is the main source of in-formation on river restoration in Europe, and the RiverWiki, which contains information on over 500 river restoration case studies from 31 countries. These tools provide information and explanations of policy opportunities and constraints, the effectiveness of different restoration methods, design issues, and project costs and benefits.
Although several river restoration networks already existed, the project es-tablished a wider European forum to support these and emerging networks. This helped identify the needs of networks and the barriers to effective operation and cooperation.
A good practice guide ‘Rivers by Design’ was published for planners, devel-opers and architects, to raise awareness of the potential to include river restoration in urban regeneration schemes.
The project’s outcomes have raised the profile of river restoration work amongst policy-makers in Europe.
The LIFE Programme is the EU’s funding instrument for the environment. Since 1992 it has co-financed innovative pilot and demonstration projects - with European added value - to improve the implementation and ongoing development of EU environment policy and legislation.
There have been over 900 LIFE projects - with some 662 million euros allocated - exclusively on water. These projects have provided integrated approaches that have helped water authorities to adopt good water management solutions aimed at meeting the requirements of the EU Water Framework Directive.
LIFE projects have contributed with new solutions for optimising water use in different sectors; ensuring water quality; developing cost analysis methodologies and water pricing services; and up-scaling methods of monitoring and planning
water resources. LIFE has also helped link water management to other policy sectors, such as agriculture and energy.
LIFE has helped conserve freshwater habitats and has contributed significantly to the management of river basins and water levels, restora-tion of floodplains and river ecosystems, habitat connectivity, the involvement of stakeholders and improving public awareness.
LIFE has also supported the fight against climate change, especially regarding water scarcity and issues around natural water hazards.
Two good practice LIFE projects are profiled below, followed by a list of 14 other notable projects. Further details about all the LIFE water projects can be found in the LIFE project database: ec.europa.eu/environment/life/project/Projects/.
RIVER
RESTORATION
NETWORKING
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Lippe-Aue Restoration of the natural river and floodplain dynamics
Beneficiary: Stadt Hamm, Umweltamt
WATER Cyprus Strengthening the scientific foundation of water quality programs
Beneficiary: Environment Service, Ministry of Agricul-ture, Natural Resources and the Environment
Life Grote Nete Restoration of the lowland river system ‘Grote Nete’
Beneficiary: Natuurpunt Beheer v.z.w.
www.life-grotenete.be/ LIFE05 NAT/B/000090
AQUAVAL Sustainable Urban Water Management Plans, promo-ting SUDS and considering Climate Change, in the Pro-vince of Valencia
Beneficiary: Ayuntamiento de Xàtiva
www.aquavalproject.eu LIFE08 ENV/E/000099
STREAM Improvement of the status of urban and rural river environments and floodplains
Beneficiary: English Nature, national authority
LIFE05 NAT/UK/000143
PALM Pump And Leakage Management
Beneficiary: SGI Studio Galli Ingegneria SpA
LIFE Obere Drau II Demonstration of successfully meeting water enginee-ring, flood protection and nature conservation objectives
Beneficiary: Bundeswasserbauverwaltung vertreten durch das Amt der Kärnter Landesregierung
www.life-drau.at/ LIFE06 NAT/A/000127
A.S.A.P. Actions for systemic aquifer protection: implementation and demonstration of a Protocol to scale down ground-water vulnerability to pollution due to overexploitation
Beneficiary: ACQUE S.p.A.
www.klink.it/gate/asap LIFE06 ENV/IT/000255
Raised Bogs Development of good practice in active raised bog habi-tat restoration in Latvia
Beneficiary: University of Latvia
www.purvi.lv/
WATER CHANGE Medium and long term water resources modelling as a tool for planning and global change adaptation. Appli-cation to the Llobregat Basin
Beneficiary: CETAQUA, Centro Tecnológico del Agua
Riparia-Ter Recovery of riparian habitats of the Ter river in Catalonia
Beneficiary: CONSORCI ALBA-TER, local authority
www.liferipariater.com/ LIFE08 NAT/E/000072
WALPHY Design of a decision tool for hydromorphological resto-ration of water bodies in Walloon Region
Beneficiary: Service Public de Wallonie
www.walphy.be/ LIFE07 ENV/B/000038
Kokemäenjoki-LIFE Improved wetland habitat with indirect benefits in redu-cing flood risks
Beneficiary: Centre of Economic Development, Trans-port and the Environment for South-western Finland
ArtWet Mitigation of agricultural nonpoint-source pesticide pollution and phytoremediation in artificial wetland ecosystems
Beneficiary: ENGEES (Ecole Nationale de Genie de l’Eau et de l’Environnement de Strasbourg)
LIFE06 ENV/F/000133
LIFE08 NAT/LV/000449
www.life-water.eu/ LIFE08 ENV/CY/000460
LIFE06 NAT/FIN/000129
LIFE05 NAT/D/000057www.hamm.de/lifeplus-projekt.html
www.life-waterchange.eu/ LIFE07 ENV/E/000845
www.leakagemanagement.eu/ LIFE09 ENV/IT/000136
www.ymparisto.fi /kokemaenjokiLIFE
SELECTIVE LIST – PROJECTS ON WATER
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