Pisa

10/09/18 - LIFE REWAT International Workshop: Digital water and nature based solutions

Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna - Pisa 10 Settembre 2018

Presentazione del Workshop

Il progetto EU LIFE REWAT (sustainable WATer management in the lower Cornia valley through demand REduction, aquiferREcharge and riverREstoration; https://www.liferewat.eu), co-finanziato dall’Unione Europea, si svolge nella pianura costiera del fiume Cornia (Toscana), dove il sistema acquifero rappresenta l’unica risorsa di acqua dolce per scopi potabili, irrigui e industriali, contribuendo anche al fabbisogno idrico della vicina isola d’Elba. Lo sfruttamento intensivo delle acque sotterranee ha portato ad un consistente deficit del bilancio idrico, causando fenomeni di subsidenza, alterazione degli ecosistemi, salinizzazione delle acque di falda.
Il principale obiettivo del progetto è rendere sostenibile l’utilizzo delle risorse idriche.
Tale obiettivo viene perseguito per mezzo di concetti innovativi come quelli dei servizi agroecosistemici per l’acqua e soluzioni basate su sistemi naturali e un utilizzo massiccio di strumenti ICT (Information and Communication Technologies; sensori e strumenti software). Sono stati messi a punto cinque interventi dimostrativi (riqualificazione fluviale, ricarica della falda in condizioni controllate; riuso di reflui trattati per scopi irrigui; uno schema di irrigazione ad alta efficienza; riduzione perdite dalla rete acquedottistica) per promuovere la gestione delle risorse idriche, unitamente ad attività di participazione e di capacity building. Gli strumenti ICT vengono ampiamente utilizzati per gestire e monitorare l’impatto di queste azioni sulle risorse idriche sotterranee.
Il 1° LIFE REWAT International Workshop “Digital water and nature based solutions: innovative tools for sustainable water management ” vuole focalizzare l’attenzione sulle potenzialità delle soluzioni basate su sistemi naturali per la mitigazione dei rischi naturali legati all’acqua aumentando la resilienza ai periodi di siccità e agli eventi alluvionali, per il miglioramento della qualità delle acque e l’adattamento ai cambiamenti climatici.
Il workshop fornirà inizialmente, attraverso presentazioni di relatori di rilievo internazionale, una panoramica dei concetti di soluzioni per l’acqua basate su sistemi naturali, il loro utilizzo e la loro diffusione su scala globale per vari scopi. Verrà inoltre affrontato il tema dell’utilizzo di risorse idriche non convenzionali. La presentazione delle attività dei progetti co-finanziati dall’Unione Europea (attraverso i programmi LIFE e HORIZON 2020) permetterà di dimostrare l’utilizzo di queste soluzioni in applicazioni reali. Verrà illustrata inoltre l’applicazione di strumenti ICT per la gestione delle infrastrutture blu/verdi e verrà discussa la possibilità di aprire un mercato digitale per i servizi collegati all’acqua.
Nel pomeriggio, durante la Tavola Rotonda “From pilot demo-sites/applications to large scale transferability: how to move innovations to the water market ”, i relatori delle sessioni mattutine e alcuni rappresentanti di importanti aziende/istituzioni discuteranno il ruolo dell’innovazione nel mercato dell’acqua e le azioni necessarie per diffondere le pratiche di gestione sostenibile delle risorse idriche al mondo reale. I partecipanti avranno la possibilità di condividere il proprio punto di vista, commentare e porre delle domande ai relatori sia durante le presentazioni, che durante la discussione della sessione mattutina, che durante la Tavola Rotonda nel pomeriggio.
Il workshop è co-organizzato nel contesto della European Innovation Partnerships on Water (EIP WATER; www.eip-water.eu) – Action Groups “Managed Aquifer Recharge Strategies and Actions” e dell’iniziativa ICT4WATER cluster (www.ict4water.eu).
La partecipazione è gratuita. La registrazione è obbligatoria (si faccia riferimento alle informazioni riportate sulla copertina). Sono disponibili solo 80 posti. Il Workshop si svolgerà in Inglese - sarà possibile usufruire del servizio di traduzione in Italiano mediante auricolari.
Il giorno 11 Settembre è prevista una visita guidata agli impianti dimostrativi (ricarica della falda, riqualificazione fluviale, schema di irrigazione ad alta efficienza). La partecipazione è gratuita. E’ disponibile un numero di posti limitato su un bus– per il quale è obbligatoria la registrazione.

Il programma preliminare del workshop è disponibile qui: SCARICA IL PROGRAMMA

Partecipazione gratuita – registrazione obbligatoria
Per registrarsi inviare una mail a Simone Maria Piacentini (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), comunicando:
- Nome
- Cognome
- e-mail
- Ente di appartenenza
- Tipologia di ente (università/ricerca, gestore servizio idrico, autorità di bacino, ente governativo, società di consulenza, libero professionista).
17-18/05/18 - Corso base di formazione “Modellistica numerica per la gestione della risorsa idrica sotterranea” – Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa

Nell’ambito del progetto EU LIFE REWAT (www.liferewat.eu), il Corso base “Modellistica numerica per la gestione della risorsa idrica sotterranea”, che si svolgerà a Pisa nei giorni 17-18 Maggio 2018, mira ad iniziare i partecipanti alle tecniche di modellistica numerica e all’implementazione di modelli.

Il corso si compone di lezioni teoriche ed esercitazioni. Le esercitazioni verranno svolte utilizzando la piattaforma di simulazione gratuita ed open source, integrata in QGIS, FREEWAT, sviluppata nell’ambito del progetto EU H2020 FREEWAT (FREE and open source software tools for WATer resource management; www.freewat.eu).
Per la partecipazione al corso sono richieste conoscenze di base di Sistemi Informativi Territoriali (utilizzo di software GIS) e di idrologia superficiale/sotterranea.

Per ulteriori informazioni sul programma del corso e sulle modalità di iscrizione si consulti la locandina allegata: IL PROGRAMMA
1st International LIFE REWAT Summer School - Digital water management and water-related agroecosystem services: geostatistics, hydroinformatics and groundwater flow numerical modelling

Call for application

Objectives

The Summer School Digital water management and water-related agroecosystem services: geostatistics, hydroinformatics and groundwater flow numerical modelling is organized within the framework of the EU LIFE REWAT project (sustainable WATer management in the lower Cornia valley through demand REduction, aquifer REcharge and river REstoration; www.liferewat.eu).

The LIFE REWAT project takes place in the coastal Cornia plain (Tuscany, Italy). There, the aquifer system provides the only source of water for drinking, irrigation, industrial purposes and it also contributes to the water needs of the nearby Elba island.

Since 60 years, intensive exploitation of groundwater resulted in consistent head lowering and water balance deficit, causing subsidence, reduction of groundwater dependent ecosystems, and salinization of freshwater resources.

Rebalancing the water budget of the hydrologic system by means of innovative concepts (such as those of water-related agroecosystem services and Nature-Based Solutions - NBS) is the main objective of the LIFE REWAT project.

Five demonstration measures (river restoration; managed aquifer recharge; reuse of treated wastewater for irrigation; high irrigation efficiency scheme; leakage management in water distribution systems) are set in place for promoting water resource management, along with capacity building and participatory actions.

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT; sensors and software use) are widely used in order to monitor the impact of such actions and to monitor quantitative and qualitative status of the groundwater resource.

Taking steps from the LIFE REWAT activities, the Summer School aims at proposing innovative ideas on water resource management by focusing on the concept of water-related agro-ecosystem services and on NBS and blue infrastructures. Digital tools (software applications) constitute the other pillar of the Summer School, aiming at preparing the participants to develop the skills for dealing with the management and analysis of water-related spatial data by using state-of-the-art ICT.

Date and venue

The Summer School will be held at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, in Pisa (Italy), on September 3^rd - 14^th.

Target participants

The Summer School is designed for early career scientists (MSc students, PhD students or post-doc), technicians from public authorities (water authorities, river basin authorities, environmental protection agencies) and geo-environmental companies, water utilities operators with at least a 1^st level degree or an MSc degree in engineering, environmental sciences, earth sciences, agricultural engineering, physics, mathematics, informatics.

As the Summer School will be held in English, applicants must have an advanced knowledge of the English language.

Because of the need of keeping ICT applied laboratory small, enrolment will be limited to a maximum of 24 participants. The Summer School will be activated with a minimum of 12 participants.

Structure and teaching methods

The Summer School is structured in:

-8 days of class lectures and practical exercises (software application);

-a one-day Technical Trip at the innovative pilot schemes designed and realized in Val di Cornia (Tuscany region, Italy) within the framework of the EU LIFE REWAT project;

-a one-day International Workshop where up-to-date application of the water-related agroecosystem services and NBS concepts will be showcased by speakers drawn from relevant EU and international projects.

Class lectures and exercises are divided in four modules:

-Module I - Innovation in water resource management: water-related agroecosystem services and nature based solutions;

-Module II - Data management, spatial data analysis and geostatistics;

-Module III - Hydroinformatics: introducing programming to water resource management;

-Module IV - Numerical modelling of groundwater flow in aquifers.

The teaching activities will make use of an extremely interdisciplinary approach granted by the diverse competences of the key staff members. Theoretical and applied lectures will make use of real data collected at the Val di Cornia coastal plain within the framework of the EU LIFE REWAT project.

The Summer School programme capitalises also on the experience of the FP7 MARSOL (www.marsol.eu) and H2020 FREEWAT (www.freewat.eu) projects.

Free and Open Source Software will be used for applied lectures. QGIS (https://www.qgis.org/en/site/) will be used as a GIS desktop. The FREEWAT platform will be used in Module IV.

How to apply

Applicants shall submit their application on-line through this website no later than July 17^th 2018 at 12:00 AM (GMT).

The online application requires a registration and login procedure.

Applicants are required to attach:

-an up-to-date CV in .pdf file

-a presentation and motivation letter (500 words maximum)

-other documents considered of interest (e.g., scientific publications, awards, etc.)

-a scanned copy of a valid passport/ID card

A Committee will evaluate the documents submitted by each applicant and will select the candidates eligible to attend the Summer School, by producing a ranking list. Successful candidates will be notified by e-mail with an admission notice.

Enrolment fee

The Summer School enrolment fee amounts to € 400,00. It includes: attendance to all the lessons, lectures’ handouts and the canteen facility (lunch and dinner) during the 10 Summer School days (including the Technical Trip and the International Workshop). Any other expense – such as visa, accommodation and travel costs, etc. – is to be covered by the participants.

The first 12 eligible students in the ranking list will benefit of a reduced fee of € 260,00 and free accommodation. The accommodation consists in a double room for 13 nights (from Sunday 2^nd September to Saturday 15^th September) in an apartment in a residence 15 minutes walking from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna premises.

Further info, online resources and contacts

Participants are required to use their own laptop.

A final assessment test is foreseen at the end of the Summer School.

The acknowledgement of 5 European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) is envisaged for students attending 90% of the whole Summer School programme and passing the foreseen learning test. Training credits are foreseen for Italian engineers, geologists, agronomists on the basis of specific agreements signed with the respective professional bodies in Italy.

Further information can be retrieved consulting the Summer School call for application.

Write to Rudy Rossetto (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) or Giovanna De Filippis (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) to get further information on the Summer School programme and modules.

DOWNLOAD THE PROGRAMME

We are happy to announce that within the EU co-financed LIFE REWAT project (www.liferewat.eu), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna will host in Pisa (Italy) the first edition of the Summer School

Digital water management and water-related agroecosystem services: geostatistics, hydroinformatics and groundwater flow numerical modelling

from September 3rd to 14th 2018.

For further information on the Summer School structure, how to apply and the enrolment fee, please visit: https://www.freewat.eu/1st-international-life-rewat-summer-school-digital-water-management-and-water-related-agroecosystem

Twelve exemptions on lodging and subsistence available.

Deadline for the application: July 17 th 2018 at 12 am (GMT)

The Summer School aims at proposing innovative ideas on water resource management by focusing on the concept of water-related agro-ecosystem services and on nature-based solutions and blue infrastructures. Digital tools (software applications) will constitute the other pillar of the Summer School, aiming at preparing the participants to develop the skills for dealing with the management and analysis of water-related spatial data by using state-of-the-art Information and Communication Technologies.

The Summer School is designed for MSc students and early career scientists (PhD students or post-doc), technicians from public authorities and geo-environmental companies, water utilities operators with a background in engineering, environmental sciences, earth sciences, agricultural engineering, physics, mathematics, informatics.

The participants will develop digital skills in water resource management, by using state-of-the-art ICT software. Open source and free software will be used.

Info also available by writing to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
2nd International LIFE REWAT Summer School - Digital water management and water-related agroecosystem services: geostatistics, hydroinformatics and groundwater flow numerical modelling

Call for application

September 9^th—20^th, 2019

Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna

Pisa, Italy

Objectives

The Summer School Digital water management and water-related agroecosystem services: geostatistics, hydroinformatics and groundwater flow numerical modelling is organized within the framework of the EU LIFE REWAT project (sustainable WATer management in the lower Cornia valley through demand REduction, aquifer REcharge and river REstoration; www.liferewat.eu).

The LIFE REWAT project takes place in the coastal Cornia plain (Tuscany, Italy). There, the aquifer system provides the only source of water for drinking, irrigation, industrial purposes and it also contributes to the water needs of the nearby Elba island.

Since 60 years, intensive exploitation of groundwater resulted in consistent head lowering and water balance deficit, causing subsidence, reduction of groundwater dependent ecosystems, and salinization of freshwater resources.

Rebalancing the water budget of the hydrologic system by means of innovative concepts (such as those of water-related agroecosystem services and Nature-Based Solutions - NBS) is the main objective of the LIFE REWAT project.

Five demonstration measures (river restoration; managed aquifer recharge; reuse of treated wastewater for irrigation; high irrigation efficiency scheme; leakage management in water distribution systems) are set in place for promoting water resource management, along with capacity building and participatory actions.

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT; sensors and software use) are widely used in order to monitor the impact of such actions and to monitor quantitative and qualitative status of the groundwater resource.

Taking steps from the LIFE REWAT activities, the Summer School aims at proposing innovative ideas on water resource management by focusing on the concept of water-related agro-ecosystem services and on NBS and blue infrastructures. Digital tools (software applications) constitute the other pillar of the Summer School, aiming at preparing the participants to develop the skills for dealing with the management and analysis of water-related spatial data by using state-of-the-art ICT.

Date and venue

The Summer School will be held at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, in Pisa (Italy), on September 9^th- 20^th.

Target participants

The Summer School is designed for early career scientists (MSc students, PhD students or post-doc), technicians from public authorities (water authorities, river basin authorities, environmental protection agencies) and geo-environmental companies, water utilities operators with at least a 1^st level degree or an MSc degree in engineering, environmental sciences, earth sciences, agricultural engineering, physics, mathematics, informatics.

As the Summer School will be held in English, applicants must have an advanced knowledge of the English language.

Because of the need of keeping ICT applied laboratory small, enrolment will be limited to a maximum of 24 participants. The Summer School will be activated with a minimum of 12 participants.

Structure and teaching methods

The Summer School has a duration of 10 days, and it is structured in:

a.     9 days of class lectures and applied software laboratories,

b.     one day Technical Trip at LIFE REWAT innovative pilot schemes in Val di Cornia.

c.     the 2^nd FREEWAT International Workshop.

Class lectures and exercises are divided in five modules:

Module I: Innovation in water resource management: water-related agroecosystem services and nature-based solutions;

Module II: Data management, spatial data analysis and geostatistics;

Module III: ICT for Hydrochemistry

Module IV: Hydroinformatics: introducing programming to water resource management;

Module V: Numerical modelling of groundwater flow in aquifers.

Further information on the Summer School programme and modules may be obtained by writing to Rudy Rossetto (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

The teaching activities will make use of an extremely interdisciplinary approach granted by the diverse competences of the key staff members. Theoretical and applied lectures will make use of real data collected at the Val di Cornia coastal plain within the framework of the EU LIFE REWAT project.

The Summer School programme capitalises also on the experience of the FP7 MARSOL (www.marsol.eu) and H2020 FREEWAT (www.freewat.eu) projects.

Free and Open Source Software will be used for applied lectures. QGIS (https://www.qgis.org/en/site/) will be used as a GIS desktop. The FREEWAT platform will be used in Module IV.

How to apply

Applicants shall submit their application on-line through

https://www.santannapisa.it/it/formazione/summer-school-digital-water-management-and-water-related-agroecosystem-services-0

no later than July 22^th 2019 at 9:00 AM (GMT).

The online application requires a registration and login procedure.

Applicants are required to attach:

-an up-to-date CV in .pdf file

-a presentation and motivation letter (500 words maximum)

-other documents considered of interest (e.g., scientific publications, awards, etc.)

-a scanned copy of a valid passport/ID card

A Committee will evaluate the documents submitted by each applicant and will select the candidates eligible to attend the Summer School, by producing a ranking list. Successful candidates will be notified by e-mail with an admission notice.

Enrolment fee

The Summer School enrolment fee amounts to € 400,00. It includes: attendance to all the lessons, lectures’ handouts and the canteen facility (lunch and dinner) during the 10 Summer School days (including the Technical Trip and the International Workshop). Any other expense – such as visa, accommodation and travel costs, etc. – is to be covered by the participants.

The first 14 eligible students in the ranking list will benefit of a reduced fee of € 260,00 and free accommodation. The accommodation consists in a double room for 13 nights (from Sunday 8^th September to Saturday 21^st September) in an apartment in a residence in Pisa.

Further info, online resources and contacts

Participants are required to use their own laptop.

A final assessment test is foreseen at the end of the Summer School.

The acknowledgement of 4 European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) is envisaged for students attending 90% of the whole Summer School programme and passing the foreseen learning test. Training credits are foreseen for Italian engineers, geologists, agronomists on the basis of specific agreements signed with the respective professional bodies in Italy.

Further information can be retrieved consulting the Summer School call for application at https://www.santannapisa.it/it/formazione/summer-school-digital-water-management-and-water-related-agroecosystem-services-0

Write to Rudy Rossetto (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) to get further information on the Summer School programme and modules.

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DOWNLOAD THE BROCHURE

We are happy to announce that within the EU co-financed LIFE REWAT project (www.liferewat.eu), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna will host in Pisa (Italy) the first edition of the Summer School

Digital water management and water-related agroecosystem services: geostatistics, hydroinformatics and groundwater flow numerical modelling

from September 3rd to 14th 2018.

For further information on the Summer School structure, how to apply and the enrolment fee, please visit: https://www.freewat.eu/1st-international-life-rewat-summer-school-digital-water-management-and-water-related-agroecosystem

Twelve exemptions on lodging and subsistence available.

Deadline for the application: July 17 th 2018 at 12 am (GMT)

The Summer School aims at proposing innovative ideas on water resource management by focusing on the concept of water-related agro-ecosystem services and on nature-based solutions and blue infrastructures. Digital tools (software applications) will constitute the other pillar of the Summer School, aiming at preparing the participants to develop the skills for dealing with the management and analysis of water-related spatial data by using state-of-the-art Information and Communication Technologies.

The Summer School is designed for MSc students and early career scientists (PhD students or post-doc), technicians from public authorities and geo-environmental companies, water utilities operators with a background in engineering, environmental sciences, earth sciences, agricultural engineering, physics, mathematics, informatics.

The participants will develop digital skills in water resource management, by using state-of-the-art ICT software. Open source and free software will be used.

Info also available by writing to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
3-10/9/18 - Recap Prima Summer School Internazionale Life REWAT

Nell’ambito del Progetto Europeo Life Rewat, per la gestione sostenibile delle acque nella bassa pianura del Fiume Cornia, si è svolta la prima Summer School Internazionale Life REWAT organizzata dalla Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa che ha ospitato studenti e docenti provenienti da tutto il mondo, Italia, Africa, Sud America, Emirati Arabi ecc..

La Summer School "Digital water management and water-related agroecosystem services: geostatistics, hydroinformatics and groundwater flow numerical modelling" che si è tenuta dal 3 al 10 settembre 2018 ha affrontato i temi del progetto, grazie alla professionalità ed alla competenza dei numerosi relatori che sono
intervenuti. Tra questi Rudy Rossetto (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna), Fabio Masi (Iridra srl), Laura Ercoli (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna), Luca Sebastiani (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna), Ezio Crestaz (Joint Research Centre/EC), Enrico Guastaldi (GeoExplorer Impresa Sociale Srl), Iacopo Borsi (TEA SISTEMI S.p.A.), Massimiliano Cannata (Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera Italiana), Wolfgang Schmid (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) e Giovanna De Filippis (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna). Una giornata della Summer School è stata dedicata alla visita all'intervento di ricarica della falda in Val di Cornia previsto dal Progetto Life REWAT, dove i presenti hanno potuto valutare e discutere direttamente sul campo le azioni svolte sul territorio.

Ad arricchire l'esperienza formativa dei 25 studenti partecipanti alla summer school anche il workshop intitolato “Digital water and nature based solutions: innovative tools for sustainable water management ” che ha affrontato ed approfondito il tema della potenzialità delle soluzioni basate su sistemi naturali per la mitigazione dei rischi naturali legati all’acqua e dell’utilizzo delle risorse idriche non convenzionali.

In occasione del workshop è stato presentato anche il Progetto T.R.I.G-Eau, che si occupa di affrontare la problematica del rischio alluvioni dovuto al tombamento dei corsi d’acqua e al sempre maggiore incremento di aree urbanizzate e superfici impermeabilizzate. Il progetto vuole sviluppare la resilienza dei territori promuovendo infrastrutture verdi per la gestione dei deflussi metereologici. Più info: https://interreg-maritime.eu/web/t.r.i.g-eau

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Il Ministero dell'Ambiente in visita agli impianti dimostrativi di Life REWAT

Mercoledì 25 settembre 2019, una delegazione del Ministero dell'Ambiente e della Regione Liguria sarà in visita agli impianti dimostrativi del progetto Life REWAT

Di seguito il link al comunicato stampa sul sito del Ministero dell'Ambiente

Ministero dell'Ambiente

We are happy to announce that within the EU co-financed LIFE REWAT project (www.liferewat.eu), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna will host in Pisa (Italy) the first edition of the Summer School

Digital water management and water-related agroecosystem services: geostatistics, hydroinformatics and groundwater flow numerical modelling

from September 3rd to 14th 2018.

For further information on the Summer School structure, how to apply and the enrolment fee, please visit: https://www.freewat.eu/1st-international-life-rewat-summer-school-digital-water-management-and-water-related-agroecosystem

Twelve exemptions on lodging and subsistence available.

Deadline for the application: July 17 th 2018 at 12 am (GMT)

The Summer School aims at proposing innovative ideas on water resource management by focusing on the concept of water-related agro-ecosystem services and on nature-based solutions and blue infrastructures. Digital tools (software applications) will constitute the other pillar of the Summer School, aiming at preparing the participants to develop the skills for dealing with the management and analysis of water-related spatial data by using state-of-the-art Information and Communication Technologies.

The Summer School is designed for MSc students and early career scientists (PhD students or post-doc), technicians from public authorities and geo-environmental companies, water utilities operators with a background in engineering, environmental sciences, earth sciences, agricultural engineering, physics, mathematics, informatics.

The participants will develop digital skills in water resource management, by using state-of-the-art ICT software. Open source and free software will be used.

Info also available by writing to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
IL PROGETTO LIFE REWAT CITATO IN UN ARTICOLO SCIENTIFICO INTERNAZIONALE SU 60 ANNI DI UTILIZZO DELLA RICARICA DELLA FALDA A SCALA GLOBALE PER CONTRASTARE I PERIODI DI CARENZA IDRICA E SICCITA’

Il progetto LIFE REWAT è stato citato nell’articolo “Sixty years of global progress in managed aquifer recharge” (Dillon et al., 2018) pubblicato sull’Hydrogeology Journal. L’articolo raccoglie ed analizza i progressi compiuti a scala globale nell’utilizzo della tecnica di ricarica degli acquiferi negli ultimi sessanta anni. Nell’articolo, si stima che attraverso le tecniche di ricaricasi potrà arrivare a fornire circa il 10% delle domanda di acque sotterranee.

Il progetto LIFE REWAT è citato nel testo facendo riferimento all’impianto di ricarica della falda in condizioni controllate di Suvereto come esperienza di rilievo a livello europeo, insieme ad altri progetti quali FP7 MARSOL, H2020 Aquaness, etc.

L’articolo, in lingua inglese, è disponibile gratuitamente all’indirizzo web:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10040-018-1841-z

Buona lettura!
Visita guidata degli studenti del Master di Geotecnologie Ambientali

Venerdì 13 Luglio gli studenti del Master di Geotecnologie Ambientali dell’Università di Siena, seguiti dal Dott. Rudy Rossetto, hanno svolto una lezione in campo presso gli impianti dimostrativi in Val di Cornia realizzati nell’ambito del progetto LIFE REWAT.

In particolare, hanno avuto modo di comprendere le specifiche progettuali della realizzazione dell’impianto di ricarica delle falde in condizioni controllate in lcoalità Forni a Suvereto, con particolare riferimento al sistema di monitoraggio delle acque superficiali e sotterranee.

Durante la lezione, gli studenti hanno effettuato prove sperimentali relative al monitoraggio piezometrico ed al rilevamento dei parametri chimico-fisici delle acque sotterranee e superficiali.

Infine hanno visitato gli interventi di riqualificazione fluviale realizzati nell’alveo del Fiume Cornia.

Gli impianti dimostrativi sono a disposizione per visite guidate e per lezioni sperimentali – per informazioni si prega di contattare

Rudy Rossetto – This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

We are happy to announce that within the EU co-financed LIFE REWAT project (www.liferewat.eu), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna will host in Pisa (Italy) the first edition of the Summer School

Digital water management and water-related agroecosystem services: geostatistics, hydroinformatics and groundwater flow numerical modelling

from September 3rd to 14th 2018.

For further information on the Summer School structure, how to apply and the enrolment fee, please visit: https://www.freewat.eu/1st-international-life-rewat-summer-school-digital-water-management-and-water-related-agroecosystem

Twelve exemptions on lodging and subsistence available.

Deadline for the application: July 17 th 2018 at 12 am (GMT)

The Summer School aims at proposing innovative ideas on water resource management by focusing on the concept of water-related agro-ecosystem services and on nature-based solutions and blue infrastructures. Digital tools (software applications) will constitute the other pillar of the Summer School, aiming at preparing the participants to develop the skills for dealing with the management and analysis of water-related spatial data by using state-of-the-art Information and Communication Technologies.

The Summer School is designed for MSc students and early career scientists (PhD students or post-doc), technicians from public authorities and geo-environmental companies, water utilities operators with a background in engineering, environmental sciences, earth sciences, agricultural engineering, physics, mathematics, informatics.

The participants will develop digital skills in water resource management, by using state-of-the-art ICT software. Open source and free software will be used.

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