Open AccessLIFE+ TRUST project: tool to assist the implementation of the Framework Directive 2000/60/CE, methodology and results
Author(s) -
Vincenzo Marsala
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
acque sotterranee-italian journal of groundwater
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2280-6458
pISSN - 1828-454X
DOI - 10.7343/as-082-14-0109
Subject(s) - water framework directive , groundwater recharge , climate change , water balance , evapotranspiration , downscaling , environmental science , groundwater , mediterranean climate , environmental resource management , environmental planning , aquifer , water resource management , directive , geography , computer science , engineering , geology , water quality , programming language , ecology , oceanography , archaeology , geotechnical engineering , biology
The TRUST project is funded by the European Commission’s by the Life+ Programme. The aim of the TRUST project is the identification of the adaption and mitigation measures to counteract the impacts of climate change on the groundwater of the Upper Plain in the Veneto and Friuli region in North-Eastern Italy. The TRUST project aims at implementing a water balance modelling tool to support institutions in formulating sustainable water management planning policies and best practices. This paper reviews the development and application of the tools for the groundwater balance model that simulate the groundwater deficit. Projections on the water deficit as a function of Climate Change have used future precipitation and evapotranspiration patterns derived from climate simulations (SRES-IPCC scenarios A1B and A2) of the Mediterranean region for the 20th and 21st centuries. Model outputs showed that a significant part of future water deficit might be recovered with Managed Aquifer Recharge that will permit the groundwater management preventing the climate change effect
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