Project number: SS02030027
Project title: Development of Tools and methods improving Estimation of annual EvaporatioN balance
Grant provider: TAČR
Program: Prostředí pro život 2
Project coordinator: Výzkumný ústav vodohospodářský T.G.M., v.v.i.
Project partners: Česká zemědělská univerzita v Praze (FŽP a FAPPZ), Český hydrometeorologický ústav, Agentura ochrany přírody a krajiny České republiky, České vysoké učení technické v Praze, Vysoká škola chemicko-technologická v Praze, Výzkumný ústav Silva Taroucy pro krajinu a okrasné zahradnictví, v. v. i., Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v.v.i.
Project schedule: 2020 - 2026
Principal CZU researcher: prof. Ing. Martin Hanel, Ph.D.
Total CZU budget: 6 250 000 CZK
Abstract:
The aim of the project is, through the activities of the Water Research Centre, to support better knowledge in the areas of:
- future water requirements in terms of (a) climate change and (b) induced changes in society,
- comparison of future water requirements with the amount of available water and identification of water deficit areas,
- the impact of climate change on ecosystems and continued anthropogenic effects on aquatic environments,
- inputs, quantities, paths and the effects of pollution in current indicators causing of not reaching of good water status,
- reducing the amount and level of pollution in industrial wastewater.
With the help of new findings and through their dissemination, it will be possible to support of the considerable resilience of the society in the following ways:
- preparation of adaptation and mitigation measures, assessing their effectiveness individually, within their systems,
- optimizing their design in terms of both: effectiveness and economic efficiency,
- improving, or at least holding, the good environmental status in climate change conditions.
The project will ensure long-term research projects that require the necessary time and capacities. The project is focused especially on the Specific Objective 1 of the Program, especially on the issue of water management, drought, mitigation of its impacts on human settlements and nature. The project aims to become an important contribution to the creation of the “climate package of the Czech Republic”. However, it also deals with the issue of floods, specifically in climate change conditions. The aim of the project is also to contribute to the fulfillment and updating of strategic concepts at the level of the state and regions, in particular the Strategy of Adaptation to Climate Change, Concept of Drought Protection, River Basin Management Plans and Flood Risk Management Plans. The project results will also have a legislative impact.