Water resource strategies and drought alleviation in Western Balkan agriculture

Project Information

WATERWEB

Grant agreement ID: 509163

Project closed

Start date 1 April 2004

End date 31 January 2008

Funded under

• Specific measures in support of international cooperation: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006.

Total cost € 1 358 880,00

EU contribution € 1 200 000,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN
Denmark

Objective

4 EU and 3 WB partners will provide strategies for managing water resources for WB by combining modern technologies from a river basin through to single plant, taking account of environmental, socio-economic and health implications, studying: -river flo w, evaporation, rainfall patterns, runoff, water availability, using geographical information systems to categorise 3 areas, -water quality and nutrient use in relation to eutrophication, microbiological hazards and ecotoxicology on the farm, -micrometeor ological studies to monitor, model and predict water/nutrient use in the field, -irrigation techniques for improving plant/crop WUE, -the commerciality of quinoa, -socio-economic parameters analysing different management strategies and implications for irr igation, reducing crop water demands, and an alternative crop. A Land-Water-Economic Information System will be created and applied to 3 river basins to represent local and regional water sources, sources of contaminated runoff, agricultural water use, a nd likely impacts of farmer uptake of new water use/treatment technology. Modelling results and trials on water/nutrient use with a various crops will be tested on local farms. Workpackages are Water quantity, Water quality, Crop water use, Socio-economi cs and Dissemination. The project will deliver procedures for strategic water management, models of water/nutrient use, irrigation methods, confidence in GIS construction/usage, and outreach of modelling resources for WB.

Fields of science

• medical and health sciences › health sciences › public health
• engineering and technology › civil engineering › water engineering › irrigation
• natural sciences › earth and related environmental sciences › hydrology › drainage basins
• natural sciences › earth and related environmental sciences › atmospheric sciences › climatology › climatic changes
• engineering and technology › environmental engineering › natural resources management › water management

Keywords

• Strategic water resource management
• agricultural runoff
• drought avoidance
• irrigation technology
• modelling

Programme(s)

• FP6-INCO - Specific measures in support of international cooperation: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006.

Topic(s)

• INCO-2002-C.1.1 - Integrated management of regional water resources planning and policy

Call for proposal

FP6-2002-INCO-WBC-1
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Funding Scheme

STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project

Coordinator

UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Norregade 10 ; COPENHAGEN K ; Denmark
• Total cost: No data

Participants (6)

UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 6 Kensington Terrace ; NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
• Total cost: No data

UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Bailrigg ; LANCASTER
• Total cost: No data

FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE, UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Nemanjina 6 ; BELGRADE-ZEMUN
• Total cost: No data

FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE, UNIVERSITY SS. CYRIL AND METHODIUS

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: blvd. Aleksander Makedonski bb ; SKOPJE
• Total cost: No data

INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT "JAROSLAV CERNI" AD

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Ul. Jaroslava Cernog 80 ; PINOSAVA
• Total cost: No data

INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA (UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA)

Portugal

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Av. Republica, Apt. 127 ; OEIRAS
• Total cost: No data