European Fundend Projects

ID:
projects-620

fiwar:
LIFE06 ENV/IT/000255

Project_Acronym:
A.S.A.P.

Project_Name:
Actions for systemic aquifer protection: implementation and demonstration of a Protocol to scale down groundwater vulnerability to pollution due to overexploitation

Funding Authority:
LIFE

Call for proposals:
Environment

Focus Area:
Water resources protection

Begin Date:
2006-10-02

End Date:
2009-10-01

Status:
Completed

Budget:
€ 002 190 832.00

Description:
The A.S.A.P. project aimed to demonstrate the economical and technical viability of a procedure for preventing the over-exploitation of groundwater systems. This would be achieved through an integrated approach to optimising networks that combine technologies such as leak detectors, GIS and modelling systems and simulators. The aim was to reduce extraction from the demonstration system by 10% and to reverse the current decline in the water level from -0.5 m/year to +0.5 m/year, so that it would return to the level it had in the year 2000. The project also sought to reduce the likelihood of low-quality water and pollutants migrating into freshwater, as a result of changes in groundwater flow patterns from adjacent systems. Pumping would be reduced as far as possible, without compromising the quality of water even in periods with strong seasonal fluctuations in demand.

Resource:
https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/life/publicWebsite/project/LIFE06-ENV-IT-000255/actions-for-systemic-aquifer-protection-implementation-and-demonstration-of-a-protocol-to-scale-down-groundwater-vulnerability-to-pollution-due-to-overexploitation

Inland water types:
Groundwater'