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WaterWare is an integrated, model-based information and decision support system for water resources management. WaterWare integrates results of the EUREKA project EU487 and related RTD projects; The System is designed to support the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC) or similar national legislation, and has been developed through a series of applications to:
WaterWare is implemented in an open, object-oriented client-server architecture, fully web-based, supporting the seamless integration of databases, GIS, simulation and oiptimization models, and analytical tools into a common, easy-to-use framework. This includes a multimedia user interface, using a standard web browser as the only client software required.
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The implementation integrates object data bases and GIS, time series analysis, an embedded expert system for estimation, classification and impact assessment tasks, and a hypermedia help- and explain system. Monitoring data acquisition, scheduled automatic forecast runs and reporting, is driven by a real-time rule-based expert system.
A key feature is a non-linear multi-objective, multi-criteria optimization model based on the dynamic water budget simulation for water allocation and use, designed to find with maximum "net benefit" for basin planning and management including monetary and non-market elements. Auxiliary tools manage user requirements and stakeholder preference structures for the participatory optimization.
Applications around the Mediterranean in the EU sponsored projects SMART and OPTIMA include river basins in Cyprus, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco. Other international applications include Mexico, Malaysia, and China as well as the Nile Basin (for DSS training). Latest developments include real-time simulation based operational optimal control of river basins.
Related tools include 3D dynamic prognostic hydro-meteorological modeling, land use dynamics and WELMM analysis, or a rule based expert system for water resources development project EIA.
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