EUROPEAN COMMISSION-V FRAMEWORK PROGRAM
INCO-MED: International Cooperation With Mediterranean Countries
RESEARCH CONTRACT NO. ICA3-CT-1999-00014
PROJECT “WAM-ME”:
WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT UNDER
DROUGHT CONDITIONS: CRITERIA AND TOOLS FOR
CONJUNCTIVE USE OF CONVENTIONAL AND MARGINAL
WATERS IN MEDITERRANEAN REGIONS
COORDINATING INSTITUTION : DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL
ENGINEERING
,
UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA
,
ITALY
FINAL REPORT OF ACTIVITIES covering period from 01 April 2000 to 31 March, 2003
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Catania, 27-28 September, 2001

Mid-Way (3 rd
) Coordination Meeting Schedule and Report
European Commission DGXII
Research Project INCO-MED N° ICA3-CT-1999-00014
(Proposal N° ICA3-1999-10035)
Water Resources Management Under Drought Conditions: Criteria and Tools for Conjunctive Use of Conventional and Marginal Waters in Mediterranean
Regions
(WAM-ME)
Report on
Mid-Way (3 rd ) Coordination Meeting
Catania, 27-28 September, 2001
Partecipants:
University of Catania: Giuseppe coordinator),
Rossi
Federico
(WAM-ME
G.A.
Vagliasindi (WAM-ME contactperson), Alessandro Ancarani, Antonio
Cancelliere, Giuseppe Mancini,
Salvatore Sipala
Giovanni Sechi, Paola Zuddas, University of Cagliari:
Francesca Salis
University of Valencia:
Water Development Department of Cyprus:
Research Institute for Ground Water
Ben Gurion University:
Joaquin Andreu
Nikos Tsiourtis
Ahmed Khater
Gideon Oron
Water Research and Science Institute of Amman: Muhammad Shatanawi, Manar Fayyad,
Adnan Al-Salihi
Meeting Activities
Activities followed the attached program. Specifically, after the welcome and a brief introduction of Prof. Rossi aiming at presenting different approaches (reactive and proactive) and measures in coping with droughts, prof. Vagliasindi showed exerts from the technical annex of the project to remind the expected deliverables and the timetable of activities. Partners were also updated on the status of the second advance payment which is being delayed by cost reporting problems with one of the participating partners (the problem raised pertains to the accounting procedures used by the administration of the participating institution which are different from the one accepted by the Commission).
Presentations by each partner followed showing preliminary results on Work Package 3.
Guidelines and deadlines for the remaining work packages were presented and discussed by all the leading and participating partners.
Main decisions
The following decisions were taken during the MidWay WAM-ME meeting:
 the IV co-ordination meeting will be held in Rome on February 21-23, 2002. Partners at CINSA will be encharged with the organization of the meeting;
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 the II Workshop will be organized, tentatively (PLAN A), in Cairo (Egypt) on
September 27-October 2, 2002. The role of groundwater in integrated water management under drought condition will be the theme of the Workshop;
Alternatively (PLAN B), the Workshop could be held in Crete conjunctively with the
Mediterranean Symposium on Water Reuse (September 23-26, 2002) which is sponsored by IWA and chaired by Dr. A.N. Angelakis, Water Resources and
Environment Division, National Agric. Research Foundation, Institute of Iraklio
(Greece). Dr. Angelakis has been contacted and was eager to have the WAM-ME meeting as a parallel event at the referred symposium.
 the III Workshop will be held in Valencia conjunctively with an international specialty conference organized by UPV;

All the documents related to the project will be made available to all the partners through download routines from the WAM-ME web site
( http://www.dica.unict.it/users/fvaglias ). The project web-site will be updated by
November 15, 2001. All the partners are urged to signal any troubles in the downloading routines.
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Table 1. Future activities and deadlines
Activities
WP3 Step 1 (All Partners)
WP3 Step 2 (DICA,CINSA,RIGW, BGU, WERSC)
WP3 Step 3 (WERSC)
WP3 Final report (DICA)
WP4 Task 1 (All Partners)
WP4 Task 2 (WDD, RIGW, WERSC)
WP4 Task 3 (WDD, RIGW, WERSC)
WP4 Task 4 (WDD, RIGW, WERSC)
WP4 Task 5 (RIGW)
WP4 Final report (RIGW)
II year progress report (All Partners)
II year cost statement (All Partners)
Meetings and Workshops:
4 th
Coordination Meeting: Rome
II Workshop and 5 th meeting PLAN A: Cairo
II Workshop and 5 th
meeting PLAN B: Crete
III Workshop: Valencia
6 th
Coordination Meeting: Valencia
Deadlines
October 1 st
, 2001
December 1 st , 2001
February 1 st
, 2002
April 1 st
, 2002
December 1 st
, 2001
January 1 st
, 2002
March 1 st
, 2002
April 1 st , 2002
May 1 st
, 2002
July 1 st
, 2002
March 15 th
, 2002
March 15 th
, 2002
Proposed Dates
February 21-24, 2002
September 27-October 3, 2002
September 23-29, 2002
Spring, 2003
Spring, 2003
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INCO-MED (DGXII)
Contract N° ICA3-CT-1999-00014
(Proposal N° ICA3-1999-10035)
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Sept. 27 4 PM-7 PM: Status of the Project activities, Giuseppe Rossi (DICA)
General discussion on undergoing and future activities and deadlines
WP3: Criteria for marginal water treatment and reuse under drought conditions: Objectives, work program, expected results Federico Vagliasindi (DICA)
Dinner
Sept. 28 9 AM-1 PM: WP3: Criteria for marginal water treatment and reuse under drought conditions

Reservoirs for wastewater reuse: performance based guidelines, G. Mancini (DICA)

EWATRO: a WEB-based decision support system for the evaluation of wastewater treatment and reuse options, S.
Sipala (DICA)

STEP1: Basic Information, all Partners

STEP2: Detailed Information on Marginal Resources:
- Urban wastewater, DICA, WERSC, BGU, CINSA
- Industrial wastewater, DICA, RIGW
- Drainage water (urban runoff, irrigation), DICA, WERSC, BGU
- Sea and brackish water, BGU, WDD
- Deep (fossil) groundwater, RIGW, WERSC

STEP3: Guidelines for marginal waters quality and treatment, Muhammad Shatanawi, Manar Fayyad, Adnan
Salihi (WERSC)
Lunch
3 PM-5 PM: WP4: Strategies for the use of groundwater in mitigating drought impacts, Ahmed Khater (RIGW)
WP5: Optimization model for conjunctive use of conventional and marginal waters, Nanni Sechi, Paola Zuddas, Francesca
Salis (CINSA)
WP6: Decision support system for integrated water management under drought conditions, Joaquin Andreu
(UPV)
WP7: Application of the Optimization model and the DSS,
Giuseppe Rossi (DICA)
5 PM-7 PM: WP2: Advanced Irrigation Technologies for Wastewater
Reuse.
Gideon Oron (BGU)
7 PM-8 PM: Wrap-up session.
Dinner
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