MELIA

Mediteranean Dialogue on Integrated Water Management

The aim of the project is to establish a strategic dialogue between experts, scientists, consumers and producers on integrates water ressource management in the mediteranean region.

The project aims at structuring a dialogue among key stakeholders concerned and affected by water use and management, such as scientists, professionals, decision makers, policy makers, water providers, media professionals, educators and citizens. In this view, there is a need for horizontal and vertical integration and dialogue. The achievement of this dialog and the dissemination and exploitations of the recommendations obtained shall create real added value at the European and Mediterranean scale.

The particular strategic objective of MELIA is to contribute to the improvement of the regional water planning and management under scarcity condition to enhance sustainable development in the Mediterranean region, according with the Key activity of the INCO Work Programme 2004. In particular, the specific objective of MELIA is not only the fostering of dialogue and communication among its 45 Core Group Members, but also to build-up and share a common knowledge and awareness (at different level of players) that is open to all its Legitimate Peripheral Participaton (LPP): legislators, political deciders, water users and providers and citizens, and would contribute to the sustainable management of limited water resources in the Mediterranean, including by exploring solutions outside the water resources of the Mediterranean Basin,i.e. trade and tourism.

SERI is leader of WP 7 “Water Participatory Management and Water Governance” and contributing to WP 9 “Knowledge share” and WP 10 “Performance, social and sustainability indicators”.