WP 3: Implementation and monitoring of the WATERCARE water quality integrated system (WQIS) Deliverables: D.3.1.1 - Generation of Software utilities and D.3.1.2 - Development of the WATERCARE WQIS

The preparation of the WQIS consists in the development of all components of the WQIS: (i) the generation of a dataset of microbial and environmental parameters (Act. 3.2) of seawater in the pilot (Fano) and target areas (Dubrovnik, Pescara, Split, Istria); (ii) the implementation of a FOM (Act. 3.1) in order to simulate and forecast the bacterial dispersion in coastal bathing waters of the pilot site and control sites; (iii) the implementation of WQIS in the target and control areas (Act. 3.3). The software utilities have been developed to ensure information flow between WQIS components. Further, the WQIS have been set up and implemented to operate in the pilot and target coastal areas. All the components will be integrated into a unique system ensuring the information flows from the monitoring networks and the forecasting tools to support management actions. The WQIS will be able, in fact, to preventively identify the potential ecological risk from faecal contamination of bathing waters due to high unusual local riverine floods caused by high rainfalls under climate anomalies.