OiEau - Annual report

LIFE Eau&Climat project: Supporting local decision-making for climate-adapted Water Management Adapting to climate change is amajor goal inwater resource management. The LIFE Eau&Climat project (Supporting long-term local decision- making for climate-adapted Water Management) aims to help local stakeholders enhance their knowledge and to encourage them to address this challenge. This four-year project, managed by OiEau, was launched on 1 st September 2020. It is designed to help local water resource management stakeholders assess the effects of climate change, factor them into their planning and implement adaptive measures. This project brings together 14 partners with local water management organisations that are responsible for water development and management schemes (SAGE) as well as scientific and technical bodies. Its total budget amounts to 3.7 million euros, of which 2 million euros is provided by the European Union, with French co-financing fromWater Agencies and the Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME). The various initiatives will involve developing decision-making tools for local stakeholders, facilitating the mobilisation of these stakeholders, improving access to water-related climate data, and stepping up exchanges between researchers and managers. The project also seeks to promote the reproducibility of the results obtained in other territories, in France and in Europe, particularly through training. For further information: https://www.gesteau.fr/life-eau-climat Ms SIAUVE (OiEau), the project coordinator, "The LIFE Eau&Climat project aims to allow local water management stakeholders, and in particular members of Local Water Commissions (LWC), to take current and future effects of climate change into account in a very practical way. First of all this will involve creating tools to assess the vulnerabilities of their territory and defining local adaptive strategies. This will also be achieved by making the necessary hydro-climatic data available and by informing, raising the awareness of and training all those who need to be mobilised, i.e. elected representatives, members of the Local Water Commissions (LWC), engineering firms, major French water sector stakeholders, etc." 54