Third IDMP CEE workshop: Development of GIS Based Communication Technology Platform by Bernardas Paukštys

1. Activity 1.4. Development of GIS Based
Communication Technology Platform for the
Sustainable Management of Transboundary Water
Resources in Lithuania, Poland and Kaliningrad
Region (Russia)
Bernardas Paukštys, GWP-Lithuania
3rd IDMP CEE Workshop
Budapest, 2 & 4 October 2014

2. AIMS OF THE “KALININGRAD” PROJECT
• To build an informal and professional partnership to
facilitate official dialogue, cooperation and investment
on the shared river basin systems between RF
Kaliningrad Oblast, Poland, Lithuania and Belarus.
• To strengthen professional links between water
managers and GIS experts in neighboring countries of
Belarus, Lithuania, Poland and Kaliningrad oblast.

3. Kaliningrad project is related to 2 other larger projects:
a) GWPCEE International Drought Management Programme
b) part of the project on “Building a Framework for Collective
Action in the Management of the Transboundary Waters in
Kaliningrad, Russia; Lithuania, and Poland (Baltic Sea
Region)” started in 2012 by the SIWI, GWP-Lithuania and
GWP-Poland .
Output 4 of GWPCEE Integrated Drought Management Programme (IDMP)
LINKS WITH OTHER PROJECTS

4. BUDGET, TIMETABLE, PARTICIPANTS KL
PROJECT
Financed by the public agency - Swedish Institute.
• Budget: 3000,000 SEK (~300 thous. EUR). GWP LT and
PL gets ~10 thous. EUR each.
• Implementation period: September 2012 – August 2015.
Project participants:
• SIWI and SEI (Sweden),
• GWP Lithuania and GWP Poland,
• Atlantic Branch of P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology
(Kaliningrad),
• Russian Academy of Science (Moscow).

5. ACTIVITIES OF KALININGRAD PROJECT
• A kick-off workshop was held in November 2012 in Vilnius.
• 1st workshop was held on 17-19 June, 2013 in Kaliningrad.
The topic was: Cooperation between Lithuania, Poland and
Kaliningrad Oblast (Russia) for the Management of
Transboundary Neman and Pregolya River Basins
• 2nd workshop on economic benefits of cooperative
investments was held on October 25-27 in St. Petersburg,
Russian Federation. The topic was: Cross-Border
Collaboration of Businesses, Academia and Authorities: The
Case of Water Management in the Triangle “Kaliningrad-
Poland-Lithuania”.
• 3rd workshop will be held 4-7 November 2014 in Poland.

6. BELARUS – NEW
IMPORTANT PROJECT
PARTNER
In order to fully
cover Neman river
basin it has been
decided to involve
Belarus into the
project.

7. ACTIVITIES WITH OF BELARUS
1st meeting between SIWI, SEI (Sweden), Belarus and GWP-
Lithuania on “Management of the Nemunas (Neman) river basin
with the accent to water and energy nexus” was organised by GWP-
LT in Vilnius 6-7 February 2014. 15 participants from SIWI, SEI,
Belarus and Lithuania attended the workshop, including
representatives of MoE and MoFA of Lithuania.
2nd meeting on the same topic was organised in Minsk, Belarus
15-16 of May 2014.
18 participants from governmental, scientific organisations and
Belarus municipalities attended the workshop.

8. THANKS TO GWP IN 2013 A NEW COMPONENT
WAS ADDED :
• Development of GIS Based Communication Technology
Platform for the Sustainable Management of Transboundary
Water Resources in Lithuania, Poland and Kaliningrad
Region (Russia).
• A web-based GIS information system will be created for
sharing of information by project partners and stakeholders:
governments, NGOs, the media, and other interested parties
in and outside the basin.
• GIS maps, web database and GIS visualization of the
transboundary and climatic clusters is being prepared by the
project participants;

9. NEW ACTIVITIES SUPPORTED BY THE GWP
• Three licences of ArcGIS software were purchased for the
development of GIS products for BY, RU and LT;
• A workshop for the GIS experts and water managers from
Lithuania, Poland, Kaliningrad and Belarus was held in
Warsaw, 2-4 July 2014; 14 experts attended the meeting.
• Concluding workshop of experts from the project countries
will be held on 4-7 November in Poland back-to-back with the
main workshop.
• The tasks and activities do not fully comply with the IDMP
requirements and we do not have drought experts in our
team but we will include climatic aspects into the maps.

10. SURFACE WATER:
• Hydrological network
• Existing surface water monitoring network
• Water bodies and their status
GROUNDWATER:
• Groundwater monitoring network
• Groundwater aquifers (bodies)
• Groundwater quantitative and chemical status
PRESSURES AND IMPACTS:
• Hydropower plants
• Point sources
• Diffuse pollution
JOINT GIS MAPS USING JOINT CRITERIA

11. FEW EXAMPLES OF JOINT GIS MAPS

12. HYDROLOGICAL NETWORK AND MONITORING
STATIONS

13. PHOSPHORUS LOAD IN RIVERS

14. IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON NEMAN RB
Difference between1961-2009 average
and 2021-2050 average runoffs

15. • The only problem is that non-EU countries (Belarus and
Russia) have uneven hydrological information and limited
information on human pressures.
• They have delineated some water bodies but have not
classified them.
• Some information from Russia is collected by our partners
unofficially.
• Future cooperation with Russia is not quite clear.
PROBLEMS&CHALLENGES

16. • The final project workshop will be held in Ryn, Poland 4-7
November 2014 where results of the project will be presented
and discussed;
• The final output will be transboundary GIS maps, including the
interactive map and joint databases which will be shared
between the project countries. Some maps will be used
(hopefully) by the IDMP and – very important - for the 2nd
RBMPs in Poland and Lithuania.
• It is planned to continue professional cooperation and we are
looking for the funds. We hope that our cooperation will
contribute to official transboundary agreements between RU-
BY and LT
NEXT STEPS AND FUTURE PLANS

17. THANK YOU