Support decisions on how to use water resources to adapt to climate change
River basin organisations need information to support decisions on how to use water resources to adapt to climate change
Need characteristics
Societal challenges
- Knowledge and Technology
Themes
Sustainably manage and allocate freshwater resources
Sub themes
Information to support decisions for allocation
Stakeholder group
- River Basin Organisations (RBOs)
Task/Job
- Generation of knowledge on water resources
- Monitoring and prediction
- Data acquisition and analysis
- Forecasting
- Harmonisation of monitoring indicators
Pain
- Lack of data
Gain
- Strengthening regional weather and water monitoring networks
Simplified climate and water scenarios
- Dryer
- Wetter
- Wetter & Dryer
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