CIS- SPI activities CIS Working Group C - Groundwater

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1 CIS- SPI activities CIS Working Group C - Groundwater ROB WARD 3rd CIS SPI Event 14 & 15 November 2012 MCE, Brussels

2 Working Group C - Groundwater Objectives: - Clarify groundwater issues of WFD and GWD - Develop CIS Technical guidance - Exchange best practice, information and lessons learnt during 1 st RBMP cycle - Develop recommendations/support revision of the GWD - Contribute to horizontal issues as they arise WG C Membership: - All Member States, associated/candidate countries, industrial/scientific stakeholders and NGOs (~80 members) - Ad hoc activities: participants

3 WGC achievements : Technical reports on risk assessment, monitoring and POMs, groundwater management in Mediterranean area : CIS guidance on monitoring, protected areas, prevent/limit pollutants, groundwater status and trends : - CIS guidance on risk assessment/conceptual models - Technical reports on GWDTE - Recommendations on revision of GWD - Climate change impacts/groundwater bodies/reporting

4 WGC SPI activities Standing item on WGC agenda - Relevant research presented - Research needs identified Focussed SPI workshops to support CIS/Technical guidance; - Climate change, groundwater bodies, GWDTE - Relevant EU and MS research/science Participation in SPI events - WGC SPI Questionnaire 2011/12 - Plenary discussion/feedback

5 WGC/SPI: 2010 research topics Climate change - Direct and indirect impacts (eg CCS, shallow geothermal) - Quality/quantity (recharge) Groundwater dependent ecosystems - Environmental objectives/classification system Groundwater ecosystems - Recital 20 of GWD, typology, classification Urban areas - Urban pressures on quality/quantity Pollutants - Transfer/transformations, emerging pollutants

6 WGC-SPI Consultation SPI Questionnaire (review, prioritisation, information) followed by WGC discussions: SUBJECT Sub-topics 1. CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS GROUNDWATER DEPENDENT 4 ECOSYSTEMS 3. GROUNDWATER ECOSYSTEMS 3 4. URBAN ISSUES 2 5. POLLUTANTS 4 6. PROGRAMMES OF MEASURES 3 POMs added following 2010 SPI Workshop - IWRM (ASR), Policy impact, Agriculture

7 Questionnaire responses 20 returns: 17 MS and 3 NGOs Summary responses uploaded to CIRCABC Scoring for all questionnaire topics (1-3) - priority, urgency, new knowledge needed Key priorities: - Scoring an average of >2.5 (out of 3) on priority/urgency/knowledge combination (weighted) 30 additional topics added by respondees: - Some align with main topics - Reduced to 12 but some not GW specific or research oriented

8 Collated priorities Climate change impacts: On surface water-groundwater interaction On long-term WR availability and sustainability On groundwater quality (including other environmental change factors) Tools/techniques to assess the sensitivity and vulnerability of GW Classification system for GWDTE with associated objectives/threshold values. New/emerging pressures on groundwater: Indirect impacts of CC mitigation e.g. CCS, shale gas, geothermal Emerging pollutants -fate and behaviour, Emerging pollutants: Fate, behaviour and transformations in GW Assessment criteria and environmental objectives (including classifying) Research programme to specifically addresses recital 20 of the Groundwater Directive (groundwater ecosystems)

9 Additional topics 3D aquifer models conceptual and visualisation Development of multi-stakeholder management concepts to promote and implement effective mitigation measures in catchments used for agriculture and drinking water production Development of cost effective treatment methods to remove organic trace residue pollutants from raw water used for drinking water pollution Public health and safety Legal instrument for drilling/sealing wells or boreholes Methods for surveying/monitoring and understanding the quantitative/hydraulic groundwater-surface water interaction Methods and statistics to detect significant upward trends Specific methods to define anthropogenic alterationsin groundwater level Development of measures against salt water intrusion New monitoring strategies for integrated water and ecosystem monitoring in a changing climate Effects of forestry on groundwater (quantity and quality) Use of Treated Sewage Effluent(TSE) as an alternative resource of water

10 Examples of uptake of science CIS guidance on Status assessment and trends - EU Baseline (FP5) established concept of baseline - BRIDGE (FP6) method for deriving TVs - Case studies: AQUATERRA (FP6) + MS R&D Recommendations for revision of GWD (A I/II) - EU Baseline (FP5), BRIDGE (FP6) - GENESIS (FP7) CIS guidance on prevent/limit, and risk assessment - GRACOS, CLARINET, NICOLE and MS R&D Special workshops: - GDE, Climate Change, GW Bodies Networks: IAH, EGS, IGRAC, EUREAU, Eurometaux, EEB.

11 Conclusions A good response to questionnaire (eventually) General consensus on priorities: - Climate change, GW-dependent ecosystems, pollutants, efficiency of POMs, unconventional energy - Small number of additional priorities Lessons learned from SPI process - Networks already exists need to engage more - Continuing engagement of science community - Communication of needs still needs to improve - Member State/stakeholder research

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