THE SPANISH INTEGRATED
WATER INFORMATION
SYSTEM
Ángel Barbero
Ministry of the Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs
[email protected]
Why a water information
system?
• Need to implement an ‘official space’ for water
information promoted by the Spanish water authority.
– Institutional response to the demands from the institutions with
direct responsibilities and / or interest in water management for
validated and credible water information
• Need to promote transparency policies in water related
environmental information
– Answer to public demand and interest
– Impulse to initiatives promoting further investigation around
water issues
– Response to the directives promoting improved environmental
information access
Why a water information system?
• A more efficient way to manage water information
– Improved availability of effective, coherent and credible water
information to support the decision making processes of the different
Spanish water authorities and social agents
• Need to unify and simplify in a single system all different
and partial views of the water environment.
– Use new technologies to set up a single point of access to a
multiplicity of data sources.
• A tool to support Water Framework Directive
implementation
– A key tool to promote public participation
– A shared space to exchange data between River Basin Districts and
central water authorities
– A tool to report WFD data to EU Comission and EEA
SIA opportunity
•
The Water Framework Directive Opportunity
– EU Commission has developed new criteria for water data management
and acquisition:
• New standards on data management (metadata, GIS, etc.)
• WISE – Water Information System for Europe: new electronic data reporting
mechanism to comply with the WFD.
– WFD implies a new, more integrated, water management model
• A new paradigm based on an integrated vision of resource and environment
• Need to implement a new data model compatible with the new vision
– New monitoring networks
• New tools are needed to handle the acquisition and publication of the
environmental data sets
Development criteria
•
Selected contents
– Only representative, validated and relevant information published trough
the system
•
Access to data sources
– Direct access to the information system where the information is
originated (measured, acquired, compiled, calculated…)
– Data access agreements with the most relevant data source partners
•
Information homogenization
– Information is processed to provide a unified and consistent view of the
environmental information: data dictionaries, etc.
– Unified data model compatible with the INSPIRE Directive
To respond to the need to access and exploit the
information three major tools are being developed:
•
Intranet for specialised Ministry users, accessible only
through the MARM infrastructure
•
A public geographical viewer for expert users
•
“Water e-book” with content structured around the SIA,
addressed to a less specialised audience.
SAI incorporates a new set of Spanish water
Indicators
SAI interacts with the Automatic
Hydrologic Information System (SAHI) and
the Agro-climatic Information System for
Irrigation (SIAR)
The Automatic Hydrologic Information System in
the main river basins (SAIH)
•
•
Captures, transmits, processes
and presents real-time data
describing the hydrologic and
water status of the river basin
including all water bodies,
works and control mechanisms
data and cartographic
information on rainfall, water
levels and flows, water
circulating volume, emergence
situations, etc.
A network of sensors and
transmitters in:
• Meteorological stations
• Dams
• Rivers
• Aquifers
• Overflow channels
• Drainages
• Sluice gates, valves, pump
stations, etc.
Data processing at three levels:
• Control points
• Concentration points and
exploitation centres
• Processing centre
MARM Water Information Systems and
Water Management in Spain
WATER
MANAGEMENT
Floods and
Droughts
National
Observatory
Automatic
Hydrologic
Information
Systems (SAHI)
National Water
Authorities
SIA
Regional
Water
Authorities
River Basin Water
Management
Plans
¾Floods and
droughts
Management
¾Ecological water
flows
¾Water quality
Agro-climatic
Information
System for
Irrigation
(SIAR)
River Basin
Authorities
¾Irrigation
Systems
¾Improvement of
the knowledge
about water
bodies
Functional Architecture
National stakeholders
External
Others
Institutes
International Stakeholders
UE
Internal
Companies
National
Water auth..
Regional
water auth.
Regional
WFD
WISE
Ministries.
EMWIS
EEA
Agreements
Common language – common protocols
National Water Information System (SIA)
Centralized Database
Administrative
framework
Physical
framework
Water
status
Meteo.
Uses &
Impacts
Infrastructure
Water
mgent.
Intranet > download center
Expert Extranet
Water Electronic Book
Internal Users (Specialists)
External technical users
(specialists)
General public
WEBSITE:http://www.mma.es/portal/secciones/aguas_continent_zonas_
asoc/