Themes of the symposium
SHARING WATER: MULTIPURPOSE OF RESERVOIRS AND INNOVATIONS
Theme 1: Territorial and Water Multi-Purpose Issues
- 1A. Evaluation of current and future resources and needs
- 1B. Evaluation of socio-environmental and bio-diversity benefits and impacts, positive and negative externalities
- 1C. Analysis of resilience and adaptability of projects to respond to climate change and changing uses. Decision making methods for choosing a solution, cost-benefits analysis at a regional scale
- 1D. Lessons learnt from recent water resource crises (drought, floods…)
Theme 2: Governance and Funding
- 2A. Institutional aspects, stakeholder commitments and inter-relationships
- 2B. Financial aspects, project funding
- 2C. Participatory approaches, stakeholders involvement
- 2D. Special cases of cross-border assets
Theme 3: Innovative solutions in reservoir uses
- 3A. Multi-usage hydraulic projects: energy storage, hydropower, hybrid solutions with other renewable intermittent energies, irrigation, navigable waterways, water supply, floods mitigation, protection against marine submersions...
- 3B. Combining structural and non-structural solutions
- 3C. Integrating a project into a territory with multiple reservoirs
- 3D. Complementarities and synergies with intermittent renewable energy, related issues
Theme 4: Operating multi-usage facilities
- 4A. Hydrology for resource management at short and medium term
- 4B. Tools for operation related decision making including risk management
- 4C. Short, medium and long-term operation simulation and modelling
- 4D. Water sharing criteria, trade-off between uses, operation compatibility of additional uses
- 4E. Performance evaluation of asset management methods