Sustainable water management is increasingly challenged by anthropogenic pressures that drive overexploitation, water quality degradation, and biodiversity loss. Traditional monosectoral approaches have proven insufficient for ensuring fair water allocation across competing users. The situation is further exacerbated by incomplete knowledge of system properties, data scarcity, and cultural, governance, political, and socio-economic constraints.
This session will discuss state-of-the-art advances and pathways towards equitable, multisectoral water management. We seek interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary contributions addressing innovative monitoring (in-situ, Earth observation, citizen science, text mining), advanced data-driven and process-based modelling (conjunctive use, hydro-economic, water quality), robust decision-support systems and digital twins, effective stakeholder engagement, and co-designed nature-based solutions. Special emphasis will be placed on bridging hydrological process understanding with governance and decision-making, while considering equity, allocation metrics, and policy instruments for climate adaptation and resilience.
The session provides a timely platform to showcase results, contrast approaches, and identify replicable pathways for scaling from the Mediterranean and comparable regions. Submissions spanning methodological developments, case studies, and comparative syntheses are strongly encouraged.
This session is co-organised by the PRIMA-funded OurMED Project and NextGen4MED, a youth-led initiative fostering collaboration among early-career researchers on sustainable water management in the Mediterranean.