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Main actions
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Understanding groundwater processes and link with surface water for catchment/basin balance
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Specific examples or recommendations
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Research and innovation activities linked to specific water catchments under extreme water scarcity conditions and water quality constraints
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Development of decision support systems for remediation strategies against groundwater contamination
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Research and innovation activities to improve hydro-meteorological forecasting and monitoring of drought events
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Modelling and meta-analysis of existing historical data linked with PhD student and young researchers exchange programmes
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Characterisation of hydrological regime and morphological status of ephemeral rivers and floods
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Research actions
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Research and innovation actions
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Training and mobility actions
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Research infrastructures
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Specific examples or recommendations
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Research actions for developing quantitative models for characterizing the hydrological regime and morphological status of ephemeral rivers
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Development of strategies for improving the efficiency of specific management strategies for alluvial aquifers
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Development of experiences on artificial recharge of alluvial aquifers
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Training courses for young researchers on hydrology models for ephemeral-river water flows, flooding dynamics and aquifers recharging
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Setting the limits for water use. Water accounting, Water use efficiency and Water governance
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Innovation actions
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Scientific network
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Coordination and support actions
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Training and mobility actions
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Specific examples or recommendations
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Pilot-demo studies in water catchments under different social and environmental constraints
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Landscape management actions including the showcase of local existing technologies to be exported to other areas with similar environmental constraints
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Network for remote sensing studies. Sharing models and image analysis
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Monitoring tools, model developments and attenuation technologies against saline intrusion in coastal areas
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Training courses on remote sensing for determinations of evapotranspiration and water accounting assessment
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Networking and training activities for further defining common water use efficiency and productivity indicators able to support achieving sustainable development goals related to water use and its quality
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Coordination and support actions for supporting climate open data, making climate information more accessible to farmers, agricultural advisers and enterprises
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Water-energy-food nexus. Technology and governance models
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Innovation actions
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Awareness raising and knowledge dissemination actions
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SMEs actions
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Specific examples or recommendations
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Multidisciplinary approach research projects linking energy and water use, including pilot-demo showing good water and wastewater management and treatment practices
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Pilot projects for showcasing water-energy efficient tools and ICT platforms
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Workshops and seminars grouping relevant stakeholders, energy providers companies and irrigators
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Technical and social aspects of water saving, on-farm water use efficiency and water management in agriculture
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Research and innovation actions
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Innovation actions
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Training and mobility actions
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SMEs actions
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Specific examples or recommendations
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Research projects devoted to determine on-farm evapotranspiration
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Long-term demonstration of effectiveness of irrigation practices
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Pilot studies where to show case irrigation scheduling technologies as well as appropriate water treatment technologies
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Network of agro-meteorological observatories and data. Standardizing data collections and storage for developing a Mediterranean platform for agro-meteorological data and irrigation recommendations
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Pilot projects on strategies to improve efficient water management in animal production systems
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Water reuse and water desalination for use in agriculture
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Research and innovation actions
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Innovation actions
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Awareness raising and knowledge dissemination actions
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Training and mobility actions
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Specific examples or recommendations
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Supporting a circular economy approach in wastewater treatment and seawater desalination, aimed at resource and energy recovery, including the beneficial use of renewable energy sources.
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Technologies for optimizing waste water treatment and desalination at urban and peri-urban level
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Demonstrative pilot for mid-long term use of waste water in agriculture, assessing social, economic and environmental sustainability
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Demonstrative pilot of natural and induced processes to improve the quality of reclaimed water
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Promotion of decentralized water management approach in order to improve sustainability
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Workshops for training waste-water managers and users
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Meta-analysis of data and results for technical legislations and for accomplishing the sustainable development goal # 6 for clean water and sanitation.
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