Summary of important progress and achievements of STARS4Water in the reporting period:
More than in traditional projects we have achieved strong engaged with the stakeholders in river basin hubs and beyond, working on co-creation and capacity building, streamlined scientific and RBO’s workflows, using the hubs as living labs. The stakeholder communities are diverse but have indicated that they are committed to work jointly with and in STARS4Water. Generic approaches in co-design and co-development are tailored to the needs of individual river basins and matched with their own ongoing processes. We jointly set priorities for research and new developments in the STARS4Water project that will support the stakeholders in water resources management and operation. The project:
- introduced co-creation process with respect to developing the next generation data services and models to stakeholders.
- generated datasets on hydrological indicators at river basin level, including precipitation, potential evapotranspiration, volumetric soil moisture, snow water equivalent, ground water recharge, river discharge, precipitation deficit, domestic water demand, industrial water demand, agriculture water demand, low and high flow occurrence and duration, maximum snow water equivalent
- launched the STARS4Water Metadata Portal, Impact Reporter and STARS4Water Academy.
- co-designed a generic interactive dashboard on future water resources availability at river basins.
- co-created new data-driven modelling approaches on reservoir storage, water table depth anomalies, agricultural water use, groundwater storage change, ecological flows and predictive mapping of groundwater quality.
- co-designed socio-economic scenarios for catchments of the Rhine, Danube, Drammen, East Anglia, Seine, Duero and Messara.
River basin stakeholder gained understanding of climate risks and impacts on the safe operating space.
