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

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.

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

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).

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.

BELARUS – NEW

IMPORTANT PROJECT

PARTNER

In order to fully

cover Neman river

basin it has been

decided to involve

Belarus into the

project.

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.

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;

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.

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

FEW EXAMPLES OF JOINT GIS MAPS

HYDROLOGICAL NETWORK AND MONITORING

STATIONS

PHOSPHORUS LOAD IN RIVERS

IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON NEMAN RB

Difference between1961-2009 average

and 2021-2050 average runoffs

• 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

• 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

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