Deliverable 1 summarises key issues relating to the availability, demand and management of water in the selected countries (Spain, Portugal, Italy, Israel, Cyprus and Greece).
Although a survey conducted on country level can only give a crude picture of the overall situation, this report is aimed at identifying typical issues in water management in Southern Europe. It provides the basis for selecting representative regions and for the formulation of specific principles and targets for the paradigms to be identified. The following issues are discussed in detail:

• Identification of water availability, use patterns and water shortage conditions in Southern Europe
• Analysis of existing institutional and legal frameworks in water deficient regions
• Identification of the existing water management policies and their compatibility with the targets of integrated water management and a sustainable use of the resource

Based on this information a set of representative regions are to be selected in the countries participating during the next phases of the project.

The deliverable is organised in the following way: The first section briefly describes water availability, water quality and institutional frameworks with regard to water management in the countries in Southern Europe. The key issues with regard to management approaches and the responses to the driving forces imposed by a water deficit are described in the next section.Section three gives a brief summary of the key issues. Individual country reports provided by the case study groups in the project are supplied in the appendix.

Deliverable 4 summarizes the research that was carried out in the Work Package 3 of the project, “Developing a Systematic Typology of Comprehensive Problematique” which according to the contract aimed “to formulate a typology of water deficient regions in terms of water resources, water supply and use patterns, water management practices and policy making functions, which will be used for the selection of representative Paradigms (Deliverable on the Set of Representative Paradigms for water deficient regions). The typology should be developed on a common analysis framework, able to depict the factors that affect the formulation and operational efficiency of an integrated water resources management approach.” The objectives of this Deliverable are:

• To present the regions selected and analyzed in each country,
• To illustrate the commonalities, similarities, differences and gaps among them, and
• To develop a classification scheme and through the analysis of the selected regions in order to formulate a typology of regions in terms of Drivers and Pressures leading to water deficiency, and Responses to these.

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Deliverable 5 presents the paradigms that were identified as representative of the specific character of the regions analyzed in the project. These Paradigms include a plethora of water supply options, water uses, economic and environmental frameworks and water cost recovery policies based upon the research that was carried out in the Work Package 3 of the project, “Developing a Systematic Typology of Comprehensive Problematique”. Paradigms should be relevant to the situation in each country, being complementary without overlapping with each other.

The objectives of the Deliverable are:

• To provide the framework of developing, analyzing and evaluating alternative water resources allocation scenarios and management options, and
• To present the procedures that have been followed in identifying Paradigms

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The overall objective of Deliverable 7 is to present and assess available methods for the quantitative analysis of water resources systems in terms of:

1. Water resources and water infrastructure systems,
2. Estimation of economic and environmental costs and
3. Multi-criteria decision making in water resources management.

The overall objective of Deliverable 8 is to integrate different methods that have been reviewed to a consistent methodology and to select those indicators and aggregation methods that are most appropriate for the paradigms. This document is organised in the following way: The first section summarises an appropriate approach for water demand forecasting based on different levels of data availability. Next, a method for evaluating water management strategies will be introduced that concentrates on the assessment of water management strategies by different scenarios. Finally, a set of core indicators is presented that forms the basis for the evaluation of strategies described above.

The following tools have been reviewed:

• Mike Basin, by the Danish Hydraulic Institute (DHI)
• Basins, by the U.S.- Environmental Protection Agency
• DSS for Water Resources Planning Based on Environmental Balance, developed within a project funded by the Italian Cooperation with Egypt
• A Spatial Decision Support System for The Evaluation of Water Demand And Supply Management Schemes, by the National Technical University of Athens
• Iqqm, by the New South Wales Department of Land & Water Conservation, with collaborative assistance from the Queensland Department of Natural Resources (QDNR).
• Ensis, by the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIWA) and the Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU)
• Realm, by the Victoria University Of Technology and the Department of Natural Resources and Environment, in The State of Victoria, Australia
• Mulino, main objective of the related European Mulino Project
• Ribasim, by Delft Hydraulics
• Weap, by the Stockholm Environment Institute's Boston Center at the Tellus Institute
• Waterware, main objective of the European research program Eureka-EU487
• Aquatool, by the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
• Iras, by the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department of Cornell University and the Resources Planning Associates Inc of Ithaca, New York State

Finally, in the second section some criteria, approaches and procedures for water allocation, water quality monitoring and analysis are shortly presented. Their descriptions are cited from the respective articles and papers.

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