Observing Water-Related Events for Evidence-Based Decision-Making
- 1. Jožef Stefan Institute, Jamova cesta 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
- 2. Aguas del Alicante, Spain
- 3. Apa Braila, Romania
- 4. Ville de Carouge, Switzerland
Description
With the awareness of a changing climate impacting our sustainability, and in line with the European Green Deal initiative or the Sustainable Development Goal 6 addressing water, the industry, society and local governments are requiring reliable and comprehensive technology that can provide them an overview to water events to anticipate problems and the tools to analyse best practices appropriate to solve them. This paper presents the NAIADES Water Observatory (NOW), a digital solution offering a series of analysis and visualisations of water-related topics, helping users to extract important insights in relation to the water sector. Taking advantage of heterogeneous data sources, from the media and social media landscape, to published research and global/local indicators. Through collaboration with local water resource management institutions, the NWO was configured to local priorities and ingests local datasets to better fit the needs of decision-makers