Fourth IDMP CEE workshop: Guidelines for Drought Management Plans & National Consultation Dialogues by Elena Fatulova

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Guidelines for Drought Management Plans & National Consultation

DialoguesElena Fatulova

IDMP CEE Final Workshop; 21-22 April, 2015, Bucharest, RomaniaApril 20152 www.gwpcee.org

• Aim of Act. 2.1 – to develop Guidelines for Drought Management Plans (DMPs)

• 10 CEE countries involved in the activity (BL, CZ, HU, LT, MO, PL, RO, SK, SLO, UA)

• Act. 2.2 – National Consultation Dialogues - supportive activity for Guidelines development

• First round of NCDs – 2013-2014 – Activity 1.2 Review

• Second round of NCDs – 2014 – Guidelines of DMPs

Aim & Output


• First phase: October 2013 - March 2014 - Slovak case study 15 September 2014 – first draft of Guidelines

• Second phase (progress since the 3rd IDMP workshop): 2nd NCDs organized in 9 countries by December 2014 31 December 2014 – national examples of the key DMP components

- 6 templates completed and comments to draft of the Guidelines provided

24 February 2015 – revised draft of the Guidelines 9 April 2015 – final version of Guidelines for DMPs completed (PRG

comments included)

Progress Report – Activity 2.1 & 2.2


General guidelines:

• WMO/GWP National Drought Management Policy Guidelines: A Template for Action (D.A. Wilhite) - Global level – stepwise approach

• Drought Management Plan Report Including Agricultural, Drought Indicators and Climate Change – EU Guidelines –principles of integrated water management in context of WFD

• Drought Management Guidelines, European Commission, MEDA Water, MEDROPLAN – practical regional experiences from South Europe

Related source documents for Guidelines


Guiding principles of the Guidelines


DMP – a part of integrated water management

Water Framework Directive Flood directive

Climate change policy

Water legislation

River Basin Management plan

National level Flood Risk Management Plan

National level

Drought Management Plan - not

legally binding

River Basin Management plan

River basin/sub-basin level

Flood Risk Management

Plan - River basin/sub-

basin level

EU Strategy on adaptation to climate

change - action plans


7 steps in the drought policy


• Drought – considered as a relevant issue • Competent authority identification• Drought Committee establishment

1. step – Drought policy development

Drought Competent

Authority

Drought Committee Working groups (e.g.

monitoring, risk assessment)

WG 1 WG 2

WG n


STEP 4 Produce/update the Drought Management Plan


Example of the regional contribution

Review of additional national indicators used in CEE countries: In addition to EU indicators which are used rarely in CEE countries, high variety of national indicators is used in the region. Bulgaria – Aridity Index (De Martonne), Palfai Index (PAI), Palfai Drought Index (PaDI) (used also in Hungary) Standardized Flow index (SFI), Standardised groundwater index (SGI), Canadian Fire Weather Index (FWI); Czech Republic - Amount of usable water in loam soils, Basic water balance of grasslands, Potential evapotranspiration of grassland, weekly amount of precipitation, Danger of Fires Index (DFI); Lithuania - Percent of Normal, (PN) Deciles (PD), Effective Drought index (EDI), Streamflow Drought Index (SDI), Selianinov hydrothermal coefficient (HTC); Moldova - Dry Periods Index (IZU) after M. Nedealcov, Climatic resources; Poland - Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) Climatic Water Balance (CWB), Threshold Level Method (ThLM), Ground Drought Risk Index (KN); Romania - Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI), Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI), Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), Soil moisture reserve, precipitation and air temperature (statistical methods based on monthly and yearly values), stream flows (statistical indicators), Groundwater levels); Slovakia – Palmer Drought Severity Index, Tomlain climatic indicator of irrigation, Konček index of irrigation, forecast of forest fire risk index; Ukraine - Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI),

hydrothermal indicator (HTI) of Selyaninova, humidification indicator of Shashko (Md), Moisture Content Indicator of Protserova, number of days with relative humidity ≤ 30% (No), number of days with maximum temperature > 30 °C (NT), content/supply of productive moisture in 0-20, 0-50, 0-100 cm soil layer of the lands with winter, early spring and late ardent crops (W0-20, W0-50, W0-100). Slovenia - ten-day totals and comparison to long-term average (temperature, precipitation and sunshine radiation, water balance, evapotranspiration), water availability of plants, phenological development and impact of weather (drought) on plants, outlook for five days, Soil Water Balance, Precipitation Percentiles, Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI).


• Publishing of DMP (including provisional planning documents)

• Making DMP available for comments

• Consultations aimed at active involvement of the interested parties

STEP 5: Public participation


• Improvement (harmonisation) of data collection and monitoring (Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Ukraine – forest monitoring)

• Improvement of planning process – drought indicators, historical evaluation and drought forecast (Poland, Moldova, Hungary), methodology for risk assessment hazard and risk maps (Romania, Lithuania, Slovakia)

• Improvement of agricultural drought management (Slovenia)

• Support for implementation of measures – water leakages from water supply systems, increasing of reservoirs volume, construction of small water storage ponds, use of treated waters for irrigation (Bulgaria, Slovakia, Hungary), increasing soil water holding capacity (Slovakia, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary), determination of e-flows (Lithuania, Slovakia)

• Climate change modelling (Czech Republic, Lithuania, Slovakia)

STEP 6: Research and science programme


• Quantitative status assessment of groundwater according to WFD – differentiation of water scarcity and drought issues in RBMPs

• Ecological status assessment of surface water –prolonged drought (e-flows assessment)

• Climate change aspects and adaptation strategy

Related issues – requirements of Water Framework Directive


Weaknesses identified in Activity 1.2 Review Achievements during Activity 2.1 & 2.2

Current status of DMP - not satisfactory Guidelines – main tool for improvement of DMP

Lack of methodology Methodology for DMP tailored for region completed

Drought - not considered as a relevant issue All participants attended NCDs confirmed drought as a relevant issue (included representatives from ministries)

Organizational arrangements – not established/not clear

All countries indicated preparedness of existing organization structures to deal with drought

Insufficient coordination and communication among sectors and institutions

Two rounds of NCDS started communication among sectors and institutions in 10 CEE countries

Drought monitoring not sufficient Recommendations for drought monitoring given (impact?)

Drought indicators and thresholds CEE countries provided drought national indicator system;

thresholds are still rare

Data availability Recommendations for data collection provided

Insufficient legislation WFD – legal basis for DMP development

Valuable source of national experiences created during NCDs – basis for IDMP CEE continuation

Added value – comparison with situation described in Act. 1.2 – Review of the current status......


• To launch the initiatives focused on harmonization of methods used for development of the main elements of DMP:

- assessment of historical drought events

- drought indicator system in connection with drought monitoring

- thresholds for classification of drought stages

- early warning system

• To develop guidelines for the weakest elements of planning process:- risk assessment (single and multiply risks assessment)

- climate change assessment

• To initiate demonstration projects focused on quantitative water management issues (e.g. e-flows, water accounts)

Proposals for next steps – based on identified weaknesses


Thank you for your attention

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Fourth IDMP CEE workshop: Guidelines for Drought Management Plans & National Consultation Dialogues by Elena Fatulova