Study Sites​​

The global approach is to design and test, in collaboration with stakeholders, the interests and shortcomings of innovative water accounting tools in real sites dominated by agricultural, natural and forested cover, while considering current situations under water crisis (restrictions in particular) and future plausible situations.

7 Mediterranean Sites

The AQUEDUCT project includes 7 sites, where accounting tools and methods will be designed, tested and implemented:

2 Types of Sites

  • Sites with implementation of integrated water accounting taking into consideration upstream/downstream linkages – meso‑scale catchments (100–1000 km²).

  • Sites representative of one or two sectors: rainfed agriculture, natural ecosystem, forest ecosystem, or irrigated agriculture.

Hilly cultivated landscapes

Irrigated field Landscapes

Valleys & slopes

Reservoirs and Dams

Hills & fields