Sustain COAST Deliverable 2.1: Report on the real sites characterization

Sustain-COAST “Sustainable coastal groundwater management and pollution reduction through innovative governance in a changing climate” is an R&I project co-funded under the PRIMA 2018 programme section II, for 3 years starting from June 2019. The Sustain-COAST consortium is led by the Technical University of Crete (TUC) and is composed of a multidisciplinary team of seven partners from six countries. Sustain-COAST intends to develop a calibrated multi-criteria decision supporting system (DSS) and a web Geographical Information System platform accessible for water stakeholders and policy-makers. The current document presents the first step for an optimal selection and implementation of the best methodologies, i.e. a sound characterization of the four case study sites. The scientific team in this document collects and analyses all the available data for the proposed sites in Greece, Italy, Tunisia and Turkey and makes an assessment on how the real situation is in each site. These data consist of surface-water related data like stream flows, rainfall, temperature etc., groundwater related data like hydraulic head levels and pumping rates, data on the water governance scheme in the area and all other relevant water quality data. After the analysis of available data, the scientific team (TUC, UNISS, CERTE and MEU) compiles a report on the status of surface water and groundwater resources, water quality and the used governance system in their respective areas