STARS4Water will build the next generation river basin tools and services that support decision- making on water resources management in 7 River Basin Hubs. These river basin hubs serve as living labs for co-creation of data services and tools with stakeholder communities and as accelerators for further up-scaling of these services and tools to other river basins worldwide. 

Each river basin hub has a direct beneficiary River Basin organisation (RBO) that will be the primary user of the products and services of the project (but not limited to them) and who has strong institutional connections and relationships with other governmental organisations, non-governmental organisations (e.g. water utilities, nature conservation organisations, civil society organisations) and private sector organisations (e.g. farmers associations, food and beverage industry, energy sector), who can also become users of the products and services when interested.

Explore the individual stories of our 7 River Basin Hubs through the Interactive StoryMaps:

• Danube – Drought water conditions under climate change: discover how drier conditions and glacier retreat could affect navigation, ecosystems, hydropower and other water uses, and how targeted management measures could strengthen resilience.
• Drammen – Balancing future water, energy and ecosystems: explore how changing runoff and seasonality could reshape hydropower production, ecological conditions and the trade-offs between different water-management objectives.
• Duero – Groundwater beneath your fields: see how climate and human pressures are affecting groundwater in this agriculturally important basin and how improved data and modelling can support more adaptive management.
• East Anglia – Drier future for wildlife, but action can help: examine the growing pressures on water for wetlands and rivers and the measures that could help protect environmental water requirements.
• Messara – Basin under water pressure: explore how groundwater over-abstraction, high irrigation demand and climate change are shaping water scarcity in Crete’s largest agricultural plain—and the alternative pathways that could improve its resilience.
• Rhine – Navigating water scarcity in a changing climate: explore how climate and socio-economic change could intensify summer water scarcity and trade-offs among domestic, industrial and agricultural water uses.
• Seine – The future of low-flow management: discover how climate change and different reservoir-management strategies could influence low flows and water availability along the Seine.
• Meuse – River Basin in a changing climate: explore how climate change and socio-economic developments may make low flows more frequent and severe, and how Nature-based Solutions, technical measures and water-demand management can contribute to more sustainable and balanced water availability across the transboundary basin.