Presentación de productos del Proyecto Focal de Cuencas de Los Andes

Mark Mulligan and Jorge Rubiano

[30 mins]

BFPANDES : Outputs1. Capacity built in local students (UG, MSc, PhD), institutions/

stakeholders (and in us!) through training, workshops, tools, dissemination

2. Freely available report, maps and baseline data diagnosing current status of water poverty, water productivity, environmental security and their social and institutional context along with likely future impacts (http://www.bfpandes.org). Incl. poverty, institutions, interventions, water avail and water productivity+lessons in knowledge needs and knowledge management.

3. The AguAAndes Policy Support System – a simple, accessible web based tool for understanding the likely impact of particular scenarios of change and policy options on water and water poverty in detail in any Andean catchment . Batteries included! -all data supplied. No silver bullet but a start.

WP5What do water policy makers in the

region need?

Questionnaire of 80 water professionals from 7 Andean countries. Of

the respondents: 46% were development workers, 26% scientists,

21% as students, and 9% public sector employees.

1. Highest priority in Andean watersheds is soil erosion (71%),

2. 44% said that the effects of soil erosion on agricultural

livelihoods should be considered more in the policy making

process ,

3. 48% said reform in the institutional approach regarding the

management of water resources is important,

4. 66% of respondents observed that equality of access to water is

important,

5. 58% said the implementation of Payment for Environmental

Services is a priority.

How can we help? Questionnaire of 80 water professionals from 7 Andean countries

Q. What are the most important factors for successful use of PSS?

A. Availability of good data, level of detail

Q. What are the reasons for the low uptake of policy support tools such as for example SWAT in the Andes?

A. Lack of knowledge of them, lack of or expensive data, lack of training/capacity

see www.bfpandes.org

Q. In your experience which phrase best describes the use of scientific data/informatiopn in policy formulation in the Andes?

A. Data are not used (46%), spatial analysis and modelling are encouraging wider use, decisions are taken using local or expert knowledge

Problems with existing data:

Either:Not existingOr:Not available Or:Not foundOr:Too expensive/specialist Or:Unusable

Needs:

AvailableNo costConsistentDetailedEasy to use and manageProcessed and dynamic to generate knowledge...data and information/knowledge products

Problems with existing PSS (e.g.::

1. Complex, require training

2. Data not available, not detailed or expensive to obtain

3. Require significant local data handling (GIS) capacity

4. Not applicable in data scarce environments

5. Not developed for mountain environments

Solutions in simTerra based PSS (e.g. :

1. Simple policy analyst interface

2. All data provided for entire model domain at two levels of detail (1ha and 1km) (i.e. batteries included!)

3. No GIS capacity required

4. Applicable in any data environment

5. Developed specifically for tropical mountain environments

It is different things to different people. The interface changes for scientists (detailed, shown), policy makers (less detailed)

The AguaAndes PSS

Multilingual.

Scientist, English

Policy analyst, Spanish.

Interfaces with geobrowsers like Google maps....

...and an embedded Google Earth

Shows the system being modelled...

...with links to the subsystems (this is hydrology)...

...and from there to the relevant part of the documentation (not yet finished!)

You start by defining the area you want support for. The SimTerradatabase has 1 degree raster tiles (@100m resolution, shown) and 10

degree tiles at 1km resolution)

The data are downloaded to your workspace on our servers (since AguaAndes runs on our servers not your local computer). Links are provided so that you can download any data which are not copyrighted or you can view the data in situ.

Simulations produce a range of outputs that can be downloaded as ARCASCII grids for GIS analysis or visualised online

http://www.policysupport.org/links/aguaandes

This is 1km rainfall for your tile from the SimTerra database.System allows some in-situ analysis, changing of colour scales etc and

visualisation in GE and GM as well as download as zipped ARCASCII

...geobrowsed in Google Maps

...geobrowsed in Google Earth

You can then choose from a set of policy options to implement

...along with climatic or other scenarios (futures)

You can then run the simulation

Time series of simulation outputs can be viewed during or after a simulation

Spatial simulation outputs can be viewed during or after a simulation

...and can be visualised in a geobrowser

e.g. Percentage of runoff derived from fog (N Colombia and Panama)

Some parts of the PSS still to be completed

Development finishes in March 20102-3 simple case studies from this group

Available at http://www.policysupport.org/links/aguaandes

Thank you

If you are logged in as a scientist you then access the simulation parameters which can be edited (collaboratively) in a Google spreadsheet (which AguaAndes then reads)

SIMTERRA FRAMEWORK

(collection of tools for analysis and

Modelling)

SIMTERRA DATABASE

(>2TB of global dataat 1km and 1ha resolution)

SIMTERRA FRAMEWORK (Web and geo-browser based user

interface)

FIESTA, PATTERN...

The SimTerra PSS framework and the AguaAndes PSS

User-base: expert

knowledge (YOU )

AGUA-ANDES

SIMTERRA

These are 3-hourly gridded rainfall series for your tile from www.kcl.ac.uk/geodata