BINGO: Bringing INnovation to onGOing water management - a better future under climate change

BINGO aims at providing practical knowledge and tools to end users, water managers, decision and policy makers affected by climate change to enable them to better cope with specific climate related challenges, in particular for highly vulnerable water resources of strategic importance. It will address average and extreme conditions of climate change scenarios in six areas across Europe: Portugal, Spain, Cyprus, Germany, the Netherlands and Norway.

• Explore and categorise risk management measures, technologies and other solutions to mitigate climate impacts on the water cycle.
• Assess the impact of extreme weather events on water quality and quantity and the subsequent effect on key sectors in society.
• Provide a portfolio of validated risk treatment strategies to better cope with challenges posed by climate change.
• Adequate predictions of the distribution of climate variables, at the temporal scale required for modelling both average situations and extremes.
• Build a common awareness in the end users of water resources, of the challenges and opportunities to guide future collaborative approaches.

• Improved and downscaled climate predictions and projections of climate variables;
• Integrated analysis of the impacts of climate change scenarios on the water cycle;
• Improved dialogue between different actors, including decision makers;
• Increased public awareness of the effects of climate change on floods and droughts;
• More efficient management of water resources in Europe.

Exploitation of project’s results by other initiatives and projects, at industrial, academic and governmental levels.