SCENES, Waterscenario's for Europe and Neighbouring States

Client:	EU 6th Framework Program

assignment/short description

Since 2006 Deltares participates in the EU funded SCENES project. This project develops and analyses a set of comprehensive scenarios of Europe's freshwater futures up to 2025. It covers all of Greater Europe reaching to the Caucasus and Ural Mountains, and including the Mediterranean rim countries of north Africa and the near East.

The scenarios provide a reference point for long term strategic planning of European water resource development, alert policymakers and stakeholders about emerging problems, and allow river basin managers to test regional and local water plans against uncertainties and surprises which are inherently imbedded in a longer term strategic planning process. The SCENES project delivers combined qualitative and quantitative scenarios.

The qualitative scenarios (storylines) provide an internally consistent picture of how water resources in different parts of Europe may develop up to 2025. The quantitative scenarios, produced by state-of-the art models, complement the storylines by providing numerical information and by enriching the qualitative scenarios by showing trends and dynamics not apparent in the storylines. SCENES is planned as a 4-year Integrated Project with a total budget of 10.1 million EUR, of which 7 million EUR is contributed by the EU.