Pressure on water resources has been mounting in the last decades and continues to grow worldwide, driven by increasing demand for food and energy, improving standards of living and complicated by regional water governance and climate change.
SOS-Water is a EU-funded project, started in October 2022, which aims to define a safe operating space (SOS) for the water resources, accounting concurrently for all relevant water dimensions across multiple sectors and spatial scales under the influence of socio-economic, policy, technological, and climatic changes.
This framework aims to operationalize and downscale the global freshwater SOS to the continental and river basin levels, by integrating water system models (WSMs) in five different case studies in Europe and abroad.
48 Months
of duration
11 Partners
from 9 countries
5 Case Studies
in Europe and abroad
€ 4.099.405
of EU contribution
NEWS
First Danube basin stakeholders workshop
First stakeholders engagement workshop for the Danube basin case study was successfully held in Vienna, involving various key stakeholders in the basin to co-identify current and future water challenges and elicit water values. [...]
SOS-Water partners at EGU2024
As part of the “Water Resources Policy and Management” group of sessions, SOS-Water Project coordinator Taher Kahil (IIASA), together with project parterns from Universitat Politècnica de València and Politecnico di Milano, will be convening [...]
SOS-Water annual GA in Utrecht
SOS-Water partners reunited in the beautiful Utrecht University on the 17th and 18th October for the 13 Month General Assembly. It was two days of updates, exciting first results and interesting discussions on the [...]
SOS-Water featured on Trend
Our SOS-Water project and coordinator Taher Kahil were featured in the austrian Trend magazine as part of an article highlighting EU-funded projects in Austria! 👏 The article sheds light on the substantial commitment of [...]
New publication from Universitat Politècnica de València
SOS-Water researchers from UPV published a new paper on Hydrological Sciences Journal. In this paper, they present an extension of the eco-engineering decision scaling (EEDS) method to explore trade-offs in agricultural and ecologic metrics at [...]
New publication in Water Resources Research
SOS-Water partner POLIMI, in collaboration with other international researchers, published a new paper on Water Resources Research on how to reduce impact of reservoirs on sediment connectivity in river by integrating sediment management strategies [...]
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