European Fundend Projects

  • ID:
    projects-587
  • fiwar:
    LIFE95 TCY/CY/0868
  • Project_Acronym:
    No data
  • Project_Name:
    Development of an Integrated Monitoring and Early Warning System to sustain the Quality and Multifunctionality of Surface Water
  • Funding Authority:
    LIFE
  • Call for proposals:
    Third countries
  • Focus Area:
    Pollution control,Water resources protection
  • Begin Date:
    1996-03-01
  • End Date:
    2000-04-30
  • Status:
    Completed
  • Budget:
    No data
  • Description:
    Cyprus depends on rainfall for most of its water needs. Excessive water consumption is putting surface waters under stress which could be reduced, while release of anthropogenically polluted waters is causing negative impacts on ecosystems and human health. Water management is particularly difficult in Cyprus owing to periodic droughts and seasonal increases in population caused by tourism activities, which generally coincides with the island's dry months. In order to manage water quantity and maximise storage, 101 dams have been built on the island. Monitoring of the water in these dams is vital in order to identify and resolve problems. Eight years of monitoring and research activities in the field of water have made it clear to the Cypriot authorities that further integration is needed at all levels if the quality and multi-functionality of surface waters is to be sustained. This would include research, technical assessment, evaluation and management. In addition, the need to bridge the gap between research and policy creation was identified as a priority issue. The project seeks to monitor a wide range of chemical and biological parameters, which will be aggregated into an indexing and evaluation system that is expected to facilitate the integration of results into the policy-making process, and to made it possible to forecast future developments. The objective of the project is to develop an Integrated Monitoring System as a management instrument to sustain the quality and multi-functionality of surface waters in Cyprus' 7 major dams (with their inflow rivers). This should allow an integrated evaluation of surface water quality, as a source of water supply, irrigation and nature conservation. It is also hoped that it will make possible the early identification of pollution trends or emerging problems, through identification of major causes of pollution. Specifically, the project seeks to: · develop Quality Indices to assess pollution loads and their effect on the ecosystem; · develop capabilities for toxicity testing (acute, chronic, genotoxic), for virus control, modelling and risk assessment of chemicals by using quantitative structure activity relationships. The latter will be carried out through the development of: · capacity and infrastructure for toxicity testing, virus control and biomonitoring; · capacity and infrastructure for modelling; · risk assessment methodologies.
  • Resource:
    https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/life/publicWebsite/project/LIFE95-TCY-CY-0868/development-of-an-integrated-monitoring-and-early-warning-system-to-sustain-the-quality-and-multifunctionality-of-surface-water
  • Inland water types:
    Water reservoir', 'Rivers and estuaries'