HYDROCARE – Hydrological cycle of the CADSES regions

5C117

National Consortium of Universities for the Physics of Atmospheres and Hydrospheres
Via Viviano Venanzi 15
62032 Camerino
Italy

Mr. Donato Di Camillo
Tel.:	+390737616803
Fax:	+390737616804
Email:	donato.dicamillo@unicam.it
Homepage:	http://www.hydrocare-cadses.net

4 - Environmental protection
4.3 - Integrated water management

(See here for a priorities and measures overview)

3rd Call

HYDROCARE originates from the acknowledgement of the strategic relevance of water for the linked issues of economic development and environmental protection. The integrated approach of the project, based on the coupled analysis of both water resource and hydro-meteorogical events, derives from the appraisal of the suitability of transdisciplinary approaches to complex problems. HYDROCARE will develop an integrated system capable of assessing the impact of hydro-meteorological events on water resources in the CADSES region. Emphasis will be put on the development of effective transnational tools for a rational exploitation of water resources and the management of the extreme hydro-meteorological events to preserve and enhance economic and environmental welfare. Such managing tools will be also illustrated in practical terms by performing several case studies. Other main topics of the project are the reconstruction of the large and basin-scale hydrological cycle of the CADSES area to be achieved by suitably merging observations (both local and remote) and models, and the development of a higher level ICT network within a transnational frame to collect and exchange hydro-meteorological data. Provision of relevant information to end users such as farmers, entrepreneurs, public administrations and agencies is also foreseen. HYDROCARE entails a set of quite different and complementary partners covering a large part of the CADSES area. Local authorities, scientific institutions, and technical services will participate with their vast expertise and experiences. Collaboration is foreseen between bodies based in old and new EU Member States, as well as in non-Member States.

Expected outcomes of HYDROCARE are: - Development of an integrated approach for water resource management, directly bridging the evaluation of the quality and quantity of the water resources of the CADSES area with soundly based tools to reconstruct and model the large and basin-scale hydrological cycle, - Establishment of effective, internationally shared tools for public and private institutions for proper management of the water resources as well as for planning future development in the CADSES area with special attention to the dynamics of the costs of potable water, - Development of set of standards at European level for the collection, evaluation, storage and interpretation of the hydro-meteorological data coming from different sources, with particular regard to extreme events of great potential impact on the welfare of the population and the state of the environment, - Creation of a common and homogeneous database and development of a website with a bulletin updated monthly, covering extreme hydro-meteorological events in the CADSES area.

Total budget (EUR):	2.466.200,00 EUR
ERDF:	1.442.625,00 EUR

Start:	01/2006
End:	12/2007

• National Consortium of Universities for the Physics of Atmospheres and Hydrospheres , Camerino, Italy
• National Agency for the Environmental Protection and Technical Services - Department of Internal and Marine Waters Protection, Rome, Italy
• Marche Region - Public Works Design Service, Ancona, Italy
• University of Camerino - Department of Earth Sciences, Camerino, Italy
• Autonomous Province of Trento - Service for Hydraulic Works, Trento, Italy
• National Technical University of Athens - Department of Water Resources, School of Civil Engineering, Athens, Greece
• Municipality of Argostoli, Kefalonia, Argostoli, Greece
• Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany
• Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute, Bratislava, Slovakia
• Institute of Meteorology and Water Management - Branch of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland
• National Institute of Hydrology and Water Management, Bucharest, Romania