Governance tool for sustainable water resources allocation in the Mediterranean through stakeholder’s collaboration
Towards a paradigm shift in groundwater management by end-users
What is GOTHAM?
GOTHAM is a PRIMA MED-funded project which aims at developing and validating a user-driven tool that enables effective groundwater governance for the improvement of the management and preservation of this strategic resource in the Mediterranean basin. The developed tool, the GOTHAM Tool (GTool) uses an integrated methodological approach that targets optimal allocation of water resources from an environmental, social and economic perspective taking into account the stakeholders’ knowledge, their priorities and behaviour. It will provide a common framework for collaboration and engagement of the different water users (agricultural communities, municipalities and industrial users) and other relevant stakeholders such as water producers, water operators and regulators.
Latest news
Newsletter #3 – Saving Mediterranean groundwater: Discover the GTool
Our third newsletter is now available, it includes detailed information about the GTool, GOTHAM's solution. The GTool is an innovative groundwater governance tool specifically [...]
Newsletter #2 – Co-creation to advance the sustainable management of water resources
Our second newsletter is out! It includes detailed information about the GOTHAM co-creation workshops that were held in Spain, Jordan and Lebanon last July/August [...]
GOTHAM workshop in Iaat, Lebanon was a success !
On December 11th, 2021, ICU organised and implemented a workshop as part of the Lebanese case study in collaboration with the Municipality of Iaat. [...]
Use cases
Campo De Dalías
Spain
Campo de Dalías is located at the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula, specifically in the southwest of the province of Almeria. It is located in the Hydrological Subsystem III-4, within the Hydrographic Demarcation of the Andalusian Mediterranean Basins…
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Iaat, Baalbeck-Hermel district
Lebanon
Iaat is a town and municipality located in the Beqaa Valley of Lebanon in the North eastern part of the country with an area of about 42 km2. Administratively related to Baalbeck-Hermel Governorate (Baalbeck district)…