Water Information Systems and IWRM indicators production

In the framework of the UfM regional project “Creating Shared National Water Data Management Systems towards a Mediterranean Water Knowledge Hub”, Plan Bleu (Regional Activity Center of UNEP Mediterranean Action Plan) and EMWIS are organising a technical workshop on integrated water resources management (IWRM) indicators at the premises of the of Secretariat the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) in Barcelona on 30 September and 1st October.

This is one preliminary activity of this project launched in parallel to the UfM label process. The objective is to make an assessment of indicators used for Integrated water resources management in the four pilot countries of this project (Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia) as well as in the framework of international initiative acting the Mediterranean area in order to design National Water Information Systems able to feed the indicators with the necessary datasets.

This action also aims to facilitate monitoring of Mediterranean Strategy for Sustainable Development (MSSD) and its outputs will feed the MSSD revision process planned in 2014 and 2015.