EGU24 session HS1.1.3 Approaches and technical perspectives to combine flood protection and drought reduction

[Lea Augustin]

Dear colleagues,

Please consider submitting an abstract to the EGU General Assembly 2024 session: 

 

HS1.1.3 Approaches and technical perspectives to combine flood protection and drought reduction

https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/session/48119

 

Global climate change causes an increasing frequency and intensity of floods and droughts.  Nevertheless, management strategies and technical compensation and mitigation measures are often thought only from one side of the extreme, like flood retention basins releasing the stored flood water within days instead of keeping it in the region. On the other hand, managed aquifer recharge, especially when applied in drinking water catchments, is often turned off during flooding events, due to suspected contamination risks to the aquifer. Additionally, natural wetlands and/or the restoration of degraded wetlands can influence catchment water availability and flood and drought severity. Successful management of regional water resources seems to require approaches, tools, and management strategies that combine techniques from flood protection and drought prevention, i.e., combining water retention, treatment, and infiltration in subsurface storage systems (ideally aquifers) for long-term high-quality uses.

 

For this session we welcome contributions focusing on the whole strategic and operative management processes of these extreme events including:

• Field studies and modelling experiments for the hydrological hazards, sensitivity, and their consequences

• Interdisciplinary approaches for managing scarce water resources and flooding events and to support decision-making (e.g., public water supply, agriculture, industry, or environmental water use)

• Examples from coupling flood dams with managed aquifer recharge (Flood-MAR) including its legal framework

• Development of fast and robust infiltration and treatment schemes for flood waves

• Development of fast in-situ analytical tools to measure the water quality of the infiltrated water

• Mitigation measures, ranging from technical solutions like storm water storage to an adaptive design of urban and rural areas or operative-working forecasting systems

• Studies that evaluate the role of wetlands in the context of water availability and extreme hydrological events

 

Deadline for abstract submissions: 10 January 2024 (13:00 CET)

 

We look forward to see you in Vienna!

Lea Augustin, Scott Ketcheson, and Rudy Rossetto