Fourth IDMP CEE workshop: Guidelines for Drought Management Plans & National Consultation Dialogues by Elena Fatulova

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Guidelines for Drought
Management Plans &
National Consultation
Dialogues
Elena Fatulova

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• Aim of Act. 2.1 – to develop Guidelines for Drought
Management Plans (DMPs)
• 10 CEE countries involved in the activity (BL, CZ, HU, LT, MO,
PL, RO, SK, SLO, UA)
• Act. 2.2 – National Consultation Dialogues - supportive
activity for Guidelines development
• First round of NCDs – 2013-2014 – Activity 1.2 Review
• Second round of NCDs – 2014 – Guidelines of DMPs
Aim & Output

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• First phase:
 October 2013 - March 2014 - Slovak case study
 15 September 2014 – first draft of Guidelines
• Second phase (progress since the 3rd IDMP workshop):
 2nd NCDs organized in 9 countries by December 2014
 31 December 2014 – national examples of the key DMP components
- 6 templates completed and comments to draft of the Guidelines
provided
 24 February 2015 – revised draft of the Guidelines
 9 April 2015 – final version of Guidelines for DMPs completed (PRG
comments included)
Progress Report – Activity 2.1 & 2.2

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General guidelines:
• WMO/GWP National Drought Management Policy Guidelines: A
Template for Action (D.A. Wilhite) - Global level – stepwise
approach
• Drought Management Plan Report Including Agricultural,
Drought Indicators and Climate Change – EU Guidelines –
principles of integrated water management in context of WFD
• Drought Management Guidelines, European Commission, MEDA
Water, MEDROPLAN – practical regional experiences from
South Europe
Related source documents for Guidelines

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Guiding principles of the Guidelines

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DMP – a part of integrated water
management
Water Framework Directive Flood directive
Climate change policy
Water legislation
River Basin Management plan
National level
Flood Risk Management Plan
National level
Drought
Management
Plan - not
legally binding
River Basin Management plan
River basin/sub-basin level
Flood Risk Management
Plan - River basin/sub-
basin level
EU Strategy on adaptation to climate
change - action plans

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7 steps in the drought policy

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• Drought – considered as a relevant issue
• Competent authority identification
• Drought Committee establishment
1. step – Drought policy development
Drought Competent
Authority
Drought Committee
Working groups (e.g.
monitoring, risk assessment)
WG 1
WG 2
WG n

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STEP 4 Produce/update the Drought
Management Plan

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Example of the regional contribution
Review of additional national indicators used in CEE countries:
In addition to EU indicators which are used rarely in CEE countries, high variety of national indicators is used in the region.
Bulgaria – Aridity Index (De Martonne), Palfai Index (PAI), Palfai Drought Index (PaDI) (used also in Hungary)
Standardized Flow index (SFI), Standardised groundwater index (SGI), Canadian Fire Weather Index (FWI); Czech Republic
- Amount of usable water in loam soils, Basic water balance of grasslands, Potential evapotranspiration of grassland,
weekly amount of precipitation, Danger of Fires Index (DFI); Lithuania - Percent of Normal, (PN) Deciles (PD), Effective
Drought index (EDI), Streamflow Drought Index (SDI), Selianinov hydrothermal coefficient (HTC); Moldova - Dry Periods
Index (IZU) after M. Nedealcov, Climatic resources; Poland - Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) Climatic Water Balance
(CWB), Threshold Level Method (ThLM), Ground Drought Risk Index (KN); Romania - Palmer Drought Severity Index
(PDSI), Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI), Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), Soil moisture
reserve, precipitation and air temperature (statistical methods based on monthly and yearly values), stream flows
(statistical indicators), Groundwater levels); Slovakia – Palmer Drought Severity Index, Tomlain climatic indicator of
irrigation, Konček index of irrigation, forecast of forest fire risk index; Ukraine - Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI),
hydrothermal indicator (HTI) of Selyaninova, humidification indicator of Shashko (Md), Moisture Content Indicator of
Protserova, number of days with relative humidity ≤ 30% (No), number of days with maximum temperature > 30 °C (NT),
content/supply of productive moisture in 0-20, 0-50, 0-100 cm soil layer of the lands with winter, early spring and late
ardent crops (W0-20, W0-50, W0-100). Slovenia - ten-day totals and comparison to long-term average (temperature,
precipitation and sunshine radiation, water balance, evapotranspiration), water availability of plants, phenological
development and impact of weather (drought) on plants, outlook for five days, Soil Water Balance, Precipitation
Percentiles, Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI).

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• Publishing of DMP (including provisional planning
documents)
• Making DMP available for comments
• Consultations aimed at active involvement of the
interested parties
STEP 5: Public participation

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• Improvement (harmonisation) of data collection and monitoring
(Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Ukraine – forest monitoring)
• Improvement of planning process – drought indicators, historical
evaluation and drought forecast (Poland, Moldova, Hungary), methodology
for risk assessment hazard and risk maps (Romania, Lithuania, Slovakia)
• Improvement of agricultural drought management (Slovenia)
• Support for implementation of measures – water leakages from water
supply systems, increasing of reservoirs volume, construction of small
water storage ponds, use of treated waters for irrigation (Bulgaria,
Slovakia, Hungary), increasing soil water holding capacity (Slovakia, Poland,
Czech Republic, Hungary), determination of e-flows (Lithuania, Slovakia)
• Climate change modelling (Czech Republic, Lithuania, Slovakia)
STEP 6: Research and science programme

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• Quantitative status assessment of groundwater according
to WFD – differentiation of water scarcity and drought
issues in RBMPs
• Ecological status assessment of surface water –
prolonged drought (e-flows assessment)
• Climate change aspects and adaptation strategy
Related issues – requirements of Water
Framework Directive

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Weaknesses identified in Activity 1.2 Review Achievements during Activity 2.1 & 2.2
Current status of DMP - not satisfactory Guidelines – main tool for improvement of DMP
Lack of methodology Methodology for DMP tailored for region completed
Drought - not considered as a relevant issue All participants attended NCDs confirmed drought as a
relevant issue (included representatives from ministries)
Organizational arrangements – not established/not
clear
All countries indicated preparedness of existing
organization structures to deal with drought
Insufficient coordination and communication among
sectors and institutions
Two rounds of NCDS started communication among
sectors and institutions in 10 CEE countries
Drought monitoring not sufficient Recommendations for drought monitoring given (impact?)
Drought indicators and thresholds CEE countries provided drought national indicator system;
thresholds are still rare
Data availability Recommendations for data collection provided
Insufficient legislation WFD – legal basis for DMP development
Valuable source of national experiences created during
NCDs – basis for IDMP CEE continuation
Added value – comparison with situation described in
Act. 1.2 – Review of the current status......

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• To launch the initiatives focused on harmonization of methods used for
development of the main elements of DMP:
- assessment of historical drought events
- drought indicator system in connection with drought monitoring
- thresholds for classification of drought stages
- early warning system
• To develop guidelines for the weakest elements of planning process:
- risk assessment (single and multiply risks assessment)
- climate change assessment
• To initiate demonstration projects focused on quantitative water
management issues (e.g. e-flows, water accounts)
Proposals for next steps – based on
identified weaknesses

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Thank you for your attention