[Departement_IRSTEA]Eaux [TR1_IRSTEA]ARCEAUThe Durance River is one of the major rivers located in the Southern part of France. Water resources are under high pressure due to significant abstractions for various water uses (irrigation, hydropower, drinking water, industries, recreation and ecological services) within and out of the river basin. The water management with the Durance River basin will have to face global change that may question the sustainability of the current rules for water allocation. A chain of models was developed to simulate climate at regional scale (given by 3300 projections obtained by applying three downscaling methods), water resources (provided by six rainfall-runoff models forced by a subset of 330 climate proje...