The STARS4Water project recently released its first Policy Brief on “Unlocking global data for tailormade water management strategies in Europe“, which is summarized below:

Climate change is significantly impacting water resources, leading to increased risks of water shortages, floods, and ecosystem disruptions. To address these risks, river basin authorities must implement adaptive strategies that account for projected changes in water demand and availability. However, challenges related to data accessibility, quality, and usability continue to hinder effective water management.

The STARS4Water project seeks to address these challenges by unlocking global datasets, developing new data services, and providing decision-support models tailored to river basin stakeholders. This policy brief outlines key challenges encountered by the river sasin stakeholders related to data findability, availability, accessibility and usability, highlights the added value of global data, and presents specific recommendations that address these challenges while integrating insights from river basin stakeholders in 7 European basins.

The Policy Brief itself can be found here.