Paula Carreira, C2TN researcher, participated last week in the “kick-off meeting” of the PRIMA II project “Water management strategies and Adaptation actions undER a global change context FOR the MEDiterranean region” (WATER4MED) which took place in Barcelona, Spain, at the Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research.
WATER4MED is led by Spain (CSIC) and coordinated in Portugal by C2TN with funding from FCT, also including teams from Tunisia, Italy, Morocco and Jordan.
Freshwater scarcity represents a significant challenge for the Mediterranean region in the coming decades. In this context, it is essential to develop new approaches to adapt water governance models to the current context of global changes (climate change and growing demand) in order to define efficient water management strategies through numerical calculations, advanced hydrochemical methods, assessment of resilience to climate change and analysis of pollutants in the quality of groundwater and surface water.