Decision Support Tools for wastewater managementand for water & land management in agriculture

Abstract

This deliverable provides the description and the user guides for two Decision Support Tools (DSTs) relative to wastewater management and water & land management in agriculture, developed in the MADFORWATER project. The actual software and codes relative to these two DSTs have been deposited in open access repositories, and the corresponding links are reported in this deliverable. The first DST (Poseidon 2.0) compares different water-reuse options and it shows decision makers implementable solutions for wastewater treatment which comply with local requirements. It was developed in the framework of Task 5.2 of MADFORWATER - Strategies and economic instruments for WW management. Section 2.1 describes the DST and provides the links where it can be downloaded. A dedicated handbook explaining how to use the DST is included in Appendix I. The second DST is an integrated agro-economic model developed in Tasks 3.3 and 5.3, aimed at integrating water reuse and irrigation technologies (developed, tested and implemented in the MADFORWATER project) with economic instruments into basin-scale strategies to enhance the use of treated wastewater. Section 2.2 describes this DST and provides the links where it can be downloaded. A dedicated handbook explaining how to use the DST is included in Appendix II.