Water Security for Central Kosovo

Project overall objective: to secure future water supply to strategic sectors in Kosovo. The strategic sectors include domestic water use, irrigation, power and key industries.

Project specific objectives:
* Assist the Government of Kosovo to improve its river basin planning and management by providing for demonstration purposes a replicable model for integrated river basin planning and management. This model will take into account the status of Kosovo as a potential EU candidate country and thus the need to move towards alignment with the EU acquis, including but not limited to the Water Framework Directive.
* Support the Government of Kosovo in its identification of priority measures (structural and non-structural) within the water sector broadly to achieve its socio-economic development objectives as well as good water quality in the Iber basin. This will be done by providing for demonstration purposes a multi-criteria model for prioritization of measures as well as identifying and describing initial priority investments

Main results of the project achieved by the Consortium SCE - OIEau:
1.    Hydrological and hydraulic studies for a comprehensive assessment of water resource availability and water uses for the Iber basin including mapping and G.I.S activities for the global hydrological and hydrogeological studies
2.    Proposal for a Iber Basin water demand management program, including technical and non-technical measures including the development of a Integrated Water Resources model (WEAP model)
3.    Elaboration of conceptual note of measures proposed under EU format,  for funds application