- Life Trivers

LIFE TRIVERS
LIFE13 ENV/ES/000341
Implementing the Water Framework Directive to temporary
rivers: tools for the assessment of their ecological status
Objectives, Participants, Summary of the project,
deliverables, Timetable, Overall Organization of the project
and Meetings Agenda.
OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT
The main objective of the project is to improve the management of temporary streams and rivers
(TRs), by providing the European River Basin Authorities and relevant stakeholders with an operational
tested software tool (TREHS, Temporal Rivers Ecological and Hydrological Status) designed to sound
implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) to this kind of water bodies.
PARTICIPANTS
Coordinating Institution:
Departament d’Ecologia, Universitat de Barcelona (DEUB-UB).
Member s of the consortia:
IDAEA, CSIC, Barcelona (CSIC)
Agència Catalana de l’Aigua, Barcelona (ACA)
Confederación Hidrográfica del Júcar, València (CHJ).
THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM TARGETED AND MAIN RESULTS
The environmental problem targeted is the evaluation of the Ecological Status in Temporary rivers
according to the figure in the Annex I. The scientific issues relevant to the LIFE TRIVERS project were,
for the most part, studied in the FP7 MIRAGE program. The main issue is to produce software
(TREHS)that may help the Water Managers in the determination of the network of temporary rivers in
its basin. Also if the temporariness is due to natural or climatic changes or to human intervention in
the area, with a predictive model of the evolution of the river characteristics though time (from
Permanent to an Ephemeral river) according to the climate or the human use of the water. The TREHS
will allow to the managers to select the appropriate dates for sampling and the methods for
determining the ecological status that make the results comparative to other river systems..
The expected results and products to deliver to the Water Managers, Stakeholders and general public
are:
1. An operational software a tool for the sound diagnosis of temporary rivers ecological status
designed for water managers (Software TREHS) (Action B1)
2. Collection of data (hydrological, physico-chemical and biological) to assess variability at natural
and impacted sites in 25 pilot water bodies.(Data base with ca. 500 records for each basin) (Action
B2)
3. Characterization of the regimes of over 100 temporary streams based on the river regime
implications on aquatic life.(Data base) (Actions A1 and B1))
4. Evaluation of the relationships between variability in hydrological and physico-chemical conditions
and aquatic community response in relation to the determination of ES in 25 pilot basins. (Report
for managers) (Actions B1 and B2)
5. Guidelines and field protocols updated to the best available techniques for WFD implementation,
including the measure of Ecological Status and the definition and methods for measuring the
Hydrological Status.(Manual of methods for managers) (Action B2)
6. Dissemination of results via the web-site,(number of visitors) deliverables,(reports) scientific
(papers) and technical reports (manuals) and organization of a final conference (Proceedings)
(Actions B1, B2 and B3)
7. Review of approaches and methods used in Spain for the preparation of RBMPs with particular
focus on temporary streams.(Manual of methods) (Action B3)
8. An application designed for Tablets and Smart phones to be used by managers and stakeholders to
detect and report the pressures and impacts produced in TR. This application will also serve as a
method to establish the Ecological Status in a simplified manner (Software for the general public,
TREHS.net).(Action B3)
All the Deliverables of the Project are in the Annex II with the date to be delivered. The Project
Manager will be in charge of the coordination of all the activity of the project and the delivery of the
products of the project in due time. The project is not only a scientific and applied project, because
one important step in the development of the project will be the participatory processes open to the
stakeholders and general public to allow this people to suggest measures for conservation and/or
restoration of temporary rivers.
These achievements will be made according to the actions provided in Annex III with the timetable of
its duration and completion.
PROJECT ORGANIZATION
The diagram of the project Organization is included in the Annex IV of this document.
- The overall project organization is in charge of the Coordinating Group formed by Professor Narcis
Prat (UB), Dr. Francesc Gallart (IDAEA) and the Project Manager. The CG Is the responsible of the
accomplishment of the objectives of the project. The Coordination Group will meet at any time when
necessary.
- A Steering Committee will be formed in which together with the people in the Coordinating Group,
two more people were included, Dr. A. Munné (ACA) and Mr Teordoro Estrela (CHJ). The Steering
Committee will be in charge of the development of the different Actions of the project and the
transfer of the results to the Water Managers. The Meetings of the Steering Committee will be at the
dates indicated in the Annex V.
- A Dissemination team will be formed in which together with the Steering Comittee people, the UB
Communication team will be incorporated, this groups will implement the actions of disseminations of
the results of the project to the stakeholders and general public though the instruments already
included in the project (videos, conferences , press releases etc...).
- The Administrative Management will be provided by the UB thorough the Administrative Services of
the Dept. of Ecology or the University of Barcelona.
Annex 1. Environmental Problem Targeted.
Annex II. Project products
UB
UB
F.E.M. -Group Comunicació
ACA
CHJ
CSIC
External
Entregables por Institución
Se indica el dia, si no se dice lo contrario es a finales de mes
Negrita: Informes del proyecto
Entradas del Facebook i el twitter no estan temporalizadas
Acción 2014
I
II
III IV V VI VII VIII IX X
D5
Folleto "Que és un rio temporal y porqué hay que conservarlos
D5
Video: "Temporay rivers"
D1
Creación página web
A1
Creació de logo
D2
Carteles de información
D4
Dossier de prensa
D2
Primer informe de acciones de diseminación
D7
Informe del primer seminario
A1
Informe: Métodos usados en el Plan Hidrológico
A1
Informe: Rios temporales en el Distrito de Cuenca y cuencas candidatas para estudios del TRIVERS
A1
Informe: Rios temporales en el Distrito de Cuenca y cuencas candidatas para estudios del TRIVERS
2015
Informe inicial
D6
Manual del TRESH
D4
Dossier de prensa
B2
Informe resultados primer año
D7
Informe del segundo seminario
2016
B1
Informe/Publicación: Análisis del régimen de los ríos temporales
B1
TRESH Tool
Informe de mitad del periodo
D5
Folletos primeros resultados
B2
Base de datos con los resultados
D4
Dossier de prensa
B2
Lista de presiones e impactos de las masas de agua
B2
Lista de presiones e impactos de las masas de agua
B2
Informe del Estado Ecológico masas de agua
D6
Manual del TRESHSSApp para ciudadanos
D5
Video con resultados proyecto
2017
B3
Informe para ciudadanos. Preservación y restauración RT
16
B1
Documentación y base de datos TREHS software
30
B1
Informe/Publicación: Alteración régimen RT
30
Informe de progreso
30
D4
Dossier de prensa
XI
XII
15
14
14
12
12
15
16
16
16
19
19
12
B3
B3
D7
D7
C2
C1
D3
D4
Programa de Medidas. Propuesta para ciudadanos
Programa de Medidas. Propuesta para ciudadanos
Documentos de la Conferencia Internacional sobre RT
Informe del 4o Seminario de TRIVERS
2018
Informe del impacto socio-económico de TRIVERS
Resultados del uso del TRESH.net por los ciudadanos
Informe Layman
Dossier de prensa
Informe final
Annex III. Timetable of Actions
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15
30
30
15
30
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Annex IV: Overall Project Management.
UB: Universitat de Barcelona. FEM Research Group; CSIC: “Consejo Superior de Investigaciones
Científicas”. ACA: Agència Catalana de l’Aigua. CHJ: Confederación Hidrográfica del Júcar. UB-CU:
Universitat de Barcelona. Communication Unit. : A, B, C, D: Project Actions. TREHSapp: Temporary
Rivers Ecological and Hydrological Status. EC: European Comission.-
UB
U
B
UB+CSIC
Annex V. Meetings of the LIFE TRIVERS Project.
Stg: Steering Group; SKg: Stakeholders; SKg+Public, Stakeholders and Public participants in the
meetings; Public: Public participation processes in the studied Basins. Int conferc: International
Conference.
Group
STg
SKg
SKg +
Public
Public
Int Confer
2014 III
IV
Barcelona Valencia
Valencia
2015_IV
Murcia
Murcia
2016_IV 2017_II
Zaragoza
Zaragoza
ACA
basins
ACA
basins
2017_III
2017_IV
Barcelona
Barcelona
2018_II
Barcelona
Jucar
Basins
Jucar
Basins
Barcelona