Cofunded by the European Union

Maturity Level : 
A.4. Individual Rls and Obs (regional or single-site) with established networking links
RI Acronym : 
OMERE
Institution/Coordinating Institution : 
INRAE
Other partners : 
UMR LISAH (Inrae,IRD,Institut Agro) - HSM – Hydrosciences Montpellier (CNRS,IRD,Montpellier University) - INAT (Tunisia) - INRGREF (Tunisia)
Country : 
France
Current Status : 
Active
Location : 
UMR LISAH, INRAE-IRD-Institut Agro, 2 Place Pierre Viala, 34060 Montpellier Cedex 2, France
RI Type : 
Distributed RI (Central Hub and interlinked National Nodes RI)
Level of Access : 
Transnational
Cost of Access : 
Free
Keywords : 
Hydrology
Water4All Keywords : 
Ecohydrology - Sustainable water demands - Resource management - Water use - Resilience and sustainability - Other
(Surface water/ Groundwater/both; Quantity/ Quality/both; Category (lab, river, lake))
Domains and thematic area : 
Ecosystems - Sustainable Water Management
Services provided : 
Access monitoring sites - Access data and metadata - Knowledge transfer
Equipment : 
Observation networks and tools - Environmental analysis infrastructures
Type of variables provided : 
Hydrological variables - Water quality variables - Meteorological and climatic variables - Geochemical variables
Frequency of Measurements : 
Continuous Monitoring (Real-time, 10-min. period, hourly, every few hours, daily etc.) - Periodic Sampling (weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, etc.)
Variables Provided : 
Stream discharge volumes;soil erosion rates;rainfall-runoff metrics;
Kind of data provided : 
Environmental time-series;chemical pollutant logs
Sustainability of funding : 
Yes
Type of funding : 
Other
Data Catalogue : 
https://www.obs-omere.org/fr/donnees
Fair Principles : 
Off
Source : 
Website

The Franco-Tunisian OMERE observatory (Observatoire Méditerranéen de l’Environnement Rural et de l’Eau) includes two Mediterranean cultivated catchments: Kamech (Tunisia), and Roujan (Languedoc, France). These two elementary watersheds (2.63 km² for Kamech, 0.91 Km² for Roujan) have a Mediterranean climate with high inter-annual variability in rainfall and a high reference evapotranspiration. These low altitude basins (about 100 m asl) are underlain by Tertiary molassic sedimentary formations: sandstone and marl in Kamech, calcareous silt in Roujan. Roujan is primarily used for viticulture and Kamech for cereal production (wheat, barley, oats). The OMERE sites have been a center of human activity for millennia and are currently undergoing important changes (intensification of agricultural production in favorable regions, and abandonment in unfavorable regions, increasing pressure on resources, hydro-agricultural or environmental conservation projects) usually linked to a rapid increase in the population.

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The Water4All Partnership - Water Security for the Planet - is a funding programme for scientific research in freshwater. It aims to tackle water challenges to face climate change, help to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and boost the EU’s competitiveness and growth.

It is co-funded by the European Union within the frame of the Horizon Europe programme (a key funding programme for research and innovation). The Partnership duration is for seven years from 2022.

The Water4All objective is to enable water security at a large scale and in the long term. Its goal is also to tackle water issues in a holistic frame. 

All forms of life on earth need water. All human activities operate with this resource. Water is part of our everyday life. It is also integrated within urban and countryside landscapes. It is one of the most valuable elements we share with plants and animals.

These simple facts must be kept in mind to understand the Water4All ambition.

This resource is weakened in many places due to climate changes, and human habits. We know that we can improve the way we use water. Everyone has a role to play and especially the scientific research community.

Scientific research is the heart of the Partnership as It is a powerful tool to improve knowledge on preserving, restoring, and managing this essential resource. 

International cooperation is also needed as water has no borders on Earth and runs from one country to another.

Water4All brings together a broad and cohesive group of 90 partners from 33 countries in the European Union and beyond. This consortium gathers partners from the whole water Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) chain.