Abstract
This article presents research and development of an interoperable platform to facilitate, monitor and coordinate groundwater data sharing. This system was orchestrated by a number of services described by Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) such as Sensor Observation Service (SOS) and other services for the use of mapping data, Web Feature Services (WFS), Web Map Service (WMS), and catalogue services (CSW). An important activity for our project was the establishment of a portal for geographic data and services. Geoportal developed for this project will promote and facilitate access to groundwater data and share theme more openly. Otherwise our system has been designed to provide a powerful tool that enhances the ability of regional staff to monitor near real-time groundwater data (i.e. piezometric level) and as a result will help provide a more effective response to environmental upsets.
Highlights
The impact of human activities development on the natural resources is increasingly important and influences in a straightforward manner the availability of these resources on a global scale [1] [2]
Meetings and publications have addressed this problem, such as the Dublin Conference on Water in 1992, the European initiative EUWI and various reports prepared by UNESCO and other UN working groups, including the report of the UN-Water Task Force [3], which provides a dashboard with a series of quantitative and qualitative indicators, and this table can be used to give a better insight for the policy makers in water resources management
The groundwater level, which allows for a quantitative overview of the groundwater level; this is important information to be taken into consideration in reporting and summarizing periodically by the organizations operating in this area
Summary
The impact of human activities development on the natural resources is increasingly important and influences in a straightforward manner the availability of these resources on a global scale [1] [2]. It is necessary to implement a strategy for a sustainable management of this resource. Meetings and publications have addressed this problem, such as the Dublin Conference on Water in 1992, the European initiative EUWI and various reports prepared by UNESCO and other UN working groups, including the report of the UN-Water Task Force [3], which provides a dashboard with a series of quantitative and qualitative indicators, and this table can be used to give a better insight for the policy makers in water resources management. In Morocco, the hydrological context was for years considered quite positive, but this favorable situation is no longer the same since the years of drought. In addition to these dramatic years, there is the impact of the urbanization rate which has reached 51.4% in 1994 [4]. Another factor affecting this situation is the continuous growth of the population, which was estimated in 2004 at more than 29 million inhabitants [5] and which in 2014 exceeded the threshold of 33 million inhabitants (http://www.hcp.ma/)
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