Climate Change and Impacts on Water Supply
Abstract
Climate change (CC) affects fresh water resources and may have significant influence on public drinking water supply. Land use activities exert pressure on water resources and will change according to CC. It is crucial for safeguarding future water supply to anticipate these climate and land use changes and to assess their impacts on water resources. Transnational action is needed to prepare SEE for the challenge of ensuring water supply for society for several decades. Policy makers and water suppliers are required to develop sustainable management practices for water resources, considering existing and future CC influences. Therefore CC-WaterS will identify and evaluate resulting impacts on availability and safety of public drinking water supply for several future decades. Elaborated measures to adapt to those changes build the ground for a Water Supply Management System regarding optimization of water extraction, land use restrictions, and socio-economic consequences under climate change scenarios for water suppliers in SEE. The joint actions to produce this technical system will be performed on a transnational level in the Alps, Danube Middle and Lower Plains and coastal areas representing different SEE-characteristic climates and topography. In CC-WaterS, SEE governmental bodies, water suppliers and research institutions work together and implement jointly developed solutions, hence to be applied on a regional or local level in SEE. The complementary knowledge of the partners, enhanced by further applicable results of past projects, will provide a strong background. Capitalising already existing knowledge and data from EU-funded scientific projects and eliminating parallel investigations, CC-WaterS will make information applicable for concrete solutions, develop tools and instruments for public water supply and implement safeguarding measures. An accessory dissemination strategy will ensure that CC-WaterS’ durable results are transferred to the relevant users.
Climate change Water management Land use South-East Europe
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Mitarbeiter*Innen
Hans-Peter Nachtnebel
Em.O.Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Hans-Peter Nachtnebel
hans_peter.nachtnebel@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-81620
BOKU Project Leader
01.05.2009 - 30.04.2013
BOKU Partner
Externe Partner
Ministery of Agriculture
Sektion Forst, Marxergasse 2, 1030 Wien, Hubert Siegel
partner
MA 31 Wiener Wasserwerke
keiner
partner
Gemeinde Waidhofen an der Ybbs
Markus Hochleitner
partner
State Forestry Agency
Ms Albena Bobeva
partner
Croatian Waters, Legal entity for water management
Ms Mojca Luksic
partner
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Department of Civil Engineering, Mr Margaritis Vafeiadis
partner
Thessaloniki Water Supply & Sewerage Co sa
Mr Athanasios Soupilas
partner
Municipal Enterprise for Planning and Development of Patras S.A.
Mr Konstadinos Konstadakopoulos
partner
Central Directorate for Water and Environment
Department of River Basin Management, Mr László Perger
partner
Regional Administration of Molise
Mr Francesco Manfredi Selvaggi
partner
Academy of Romania, Institute of Geography
Mr Petru Enciu
partner
National Meteorological Administration
Climatology Division, Ms Aristita Busuioc
partner
National Institute of Hydrology and Water Management
Ms Ada Pandele
partner
Javno podjete Vodovod-Kanalizacija
Ms Branka Bracic Zeleznik
partner
Ministry of Spatial planning and Environment, Environmental Agency of the Republic of Slovenia
Ms Petra Souvent
partner
University of Ljubljana
Ms Barbara Cencur Curk
partner
University of Belgrade
Faculty of Mining and Geology, Mr Zoran Stevanovic
partner
Jaroslav Cerni Institute for Development of Water Resources
Mr Dusan Duric
partner