**7. References**

40 Current Issues of Water Management



Despite of all challenges, the *FASRB* is considered as a solid basis for the integrated water resources management in the Sava river basin. Although rather demanding in terms of the need for resources and continuous, joint efforts of the Parties, the *FASRB* implementation is perceived as a process providing multiple benefits, and making a steady progress toward

the key objective – sustainable development of the region within the basin.

ICPDR International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River INSPIRE Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community

UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

level from the viewpoint of the *EUSDR* implementation;

interests of all Parties.

AL Albania

HR Croatia

ME Montenegro RBD River Basin District RBM River Basin Management RIS River Information Services

*WFD Water Framework Directive*

RS Serbia SI Slovenia

**6. Acronyms and abbreviations** 

BA Bosnia and Herzegovina EC European Commission EU European Union Eurostat EU Statistical Office

*EUSDR EU Strategy for the Danube Region*

GIS Geographical Information System

*FASRB Framework Agreement on the Sava River Basin*

ISRBC International Sava River Basin Commission IWRM Integrated Water Resources Management

UNECE United Nations Economic Commission for Europe


http://ec.europa.eu/transport/inland/promotion/promotion\_en.htm


http://ec.europa.eu/regional\_policy/cooperation/danube/index\_en.htm

*Framework Agreement on the Sava River Basin*, 2002, Available from:

http://www.savacommission.org/basic\_docs


**3** 

*Portugal* 

**Web-Based Decision Support** 

*Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minho* 

José Pinho, José Vieira, Rui Pinho and José Araújo

**Framework for Water Resources** 

**Management at River Basin Scale** 

In recent years a major effort has been done to make water quality modelling tools available for water resources management at a river basin scale. The European water framework directive clear states that these tools must be used in making the diagnostic of surface water bodies water quality status and to anticipate the impact of measures to be implemented in order to achieve a good ecological status by 2015 in European waters (European Commission 2000; Rekolainen 2003; Horn et al. 2004; Ravesteijn & Kroesen 2007; Volk et al.

In order to make modelling tools usable by all the actors enrolled in water resources management process at river basins, these tools must be simple, user-friendly and robust. Water managers have shown strong interest in the integration of model tools throughout the use of graphical interfaces in their activities (Borowski & Hare 2007). These tools must be able to establish water management scenarios but it is well known that water managers have lack of time for training in the use of complex systems. Also software and hardware

Several solutions are being implemented throughout European countries, resulting from the development and integration of different software packages using different integration

This chapter presents a hydroinformatic environment (Price, 2000) specifically designed for a Portuguese north-western river basin (river Cávado) in order to define, simulate and analyse hydrodynamics and water quality management scenarios – the ODeCav System. The software solution was designed to be operated in a web environment, taking advantage of the integration capabilities of this software environment and the user friendliness of web interfaces. It is composed of the following main components: water monitoring data-bases, hydrodynamics and water quality river models, and reports facilities for the presentation of output results. The applicability of this hydroinformatic environment is exposed in the study of waste water treatment plants (WWTP) discharges impacts on the river water

costs appear to be an important constrain in implementing these tools.

quality for different river flow regimes.

technologies (Dudley et al. 2005, Berlekamp et al. 2007, De Kok et al. 2009).

**1. Introduction** 

2008).


*Manual on Good Practices in Sustainable Waterway Planning*, 2010, Available from: http://transfer.message.at/\_ZJyVSK80VdDitR

	- http://www.savacommission.org/basic\_docs
