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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

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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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http://www.euregio-mr.org/

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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


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


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


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]

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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


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)


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


- 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.

Annex 4

Task Force Water Governance

Project fiche for project ideas and proposals

Date

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







Date:

Yes, I participate at the first meeting of the Task Force on 4th

June 2013

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


Budget estimation






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







Date:

Yes, I participate at the first meeting of the Task Force on 4th

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


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


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


4 year

Budget estimation


3-4.000.000



INTERREG

case study in FP7 project

Do you need help with finding the right funding? Yes









Date: 20-02-2013


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


Project proposal

Category/Sector (technical, institutional, legal, policy, financial, communication, others (please specify): technical


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


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


4 years

Budget estimation


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.


Indicate which type of funding you have in mind: ? ?

Do you need help with finding the right funding? Yes









Date


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


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.


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.


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


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


2- 3 years.

Budget estimation


1000.000-2.000.000 EURO.




Yes.









Date






Postal code: 220086

City: Minsk


Telephone: +375 17 2634833


Project proposal

Category/Sector: technical, institutional, legal, policy, financial, communication, others (please specify):

Legal, Technical.


Cross-border harmonization of river basin management tools, taken into account WFD and FRD.


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.


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


Poland, Belarus, Ukraine.



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


3 years.

Budget estimation


500.000 EURO.




Yes









Date






Postal code: 220086

City: Minsk


Telephone: +375 17 2634833


Project proposal

Category/Sector (technical, institutional, legal, policy, financial, communication, others (please specify):

Legal, Institutional.


Development of integrated river basin approach in water management for the transnational Bug

River Basin through establishment of an International Bug River Basin Committee.


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


Poland, Belarus, Ukraine.



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


2 years.

Budget estimation


250 000 EURO.




Yes.









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


Project proposal Category/Sector (technical, institutional, legal, policy, financial, communication, others (please specify):


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.


Beneficiaries

Who will e efit fro the proje t’s results: Farmers, water managers


Actors

Lead partner:

Partners requested:

Project duration


Budget estimation













Date:

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


Project proposal Category/Sector (technical, institutional, legal, policy, financial, communication, others (please specify): institutional


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.


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


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


Budget estimation




European Space Agency (e.g. STSE and IAP programs), FP7


yes









Date:

Yes/no:I will participate at the first meeting of the Task Force on the 4th

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


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


- 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


Indicate which type of funding you have in mind: INTERREG V

Do you need help with finding the right funding? YES







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