What is tailor-made information? Tailor-made information is information that is Effective: the information product is tailored to the questions.Efficient: the information is provided at a reasonable and affordable price.

1. Information Management and Public Participation in Transboundary Water Cooperation
8-10 June 2005, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Tailor-Made Information in
Transboundary Water
Management
Jos G. Timmerman
International Water Assessment Centre (IWAC)
Institute for Inland Water Management and Waste
Water Treatment (RIZA)

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Information Management and Public Participation in Transboundary Water Cooperation
8-10 June 2005, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Outline
• What is tailor-made information?
• How to produce tailor-made information?
– Specification of information needs: how?
– Function-issue table: explanation and
examples
– DPSIR: explanation and examples
– Examples from River pilots

3. UNECEInternational
WaterAssessment
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Information Management and Public Participation in Transboundary Water Cooperation
8-10 June 2005, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
What is tailor-made information?
• Tailor-made information is information that is
effective:
– the information product is tailored to the questions,
• and efficient:
– the information is provided at a reasonable and
affordable price
(Adriaanse 1997)

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Information Management and Public Participation in Transboundary Water Cooperation
8-10 June 2005, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
How to produce tailor-made
information?
Information utilisationInformation needs
Data collection
Information strategy Data analysis
Water management

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Specification of information
needs: how?
• Water management analysis
– Policy / water management objectives
– Legal obligations
– Inventory of water resources use / land use
• Function-issue table
• Cause-effect relationship for each
function-issue combination
• Define DPSIR indicators
• Define parameters for each indicator

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8-10 June 2005, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Function-issue table: explanation
and examples

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Cause-effect relationship

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Driving forces

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Driving forces

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Driving forces

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Pressure

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State

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Impact

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Impact

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Response

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Responses
ResponsesDriving forces
ImpactPressures
State

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Some examples from River pilots
UNECE guidelines on monitoring and
assessment of transboundary rivers

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Defining indicators
Ecological functioning
Driving force Pressure State Impact Response
Number of
individual
households
Amount of water
consumption for
municipal
purposes
The load of P and
N from WWTP´s
discharged into the
river and its
tributaries from
point sources
Concentrations of
P and N in
groundwater
Concentration of
chlorophyll
Water
consumption
index per capita
Changes in diversity,
abundance and
distribution of species,
number of species of flora
and fauna
Number and area of algae
blooming (blue-green
algae, diatoms, green
algae), including the algae
toxic for the water fauna,
for cattle and people
Number of
sewage systems
Number of new
sewage
treatment plants
constructed
Costs of
removing N and
P from the
sewage
Eutrophication
Agricultural
land use area
and distribution
in the basin
Amount of
artificial and
natural fertilisers
used in
agriculture
Amount of
nutrients washed
off into the river
N and P
concentrations,
O2 concentration
Turbidity, changes in
diversity and abundance
in fish populations, timing
and number of fish kills,
timing and number water
bloom
Investment into
good
agriculture
practices in €
per year

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Indicators -> parameters

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Parameters