WANDEL: Water resources as important factors in the energy transition at the local and global level

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Water and energy are crucial to sustainable development, both globally and within Germany. WANDEL focuses on the question of whether limited water availability restricts the use of conventional energy systems and thereby accelerates the energy transition, or whether it actually slows the transition down. The project will demonstrate how energy generation impacts water resources locally and regionally (using four case studies in Germany, Brazil and Morocco), and it will also investigate the long-distance effects on other regions around the world from the perspective of water availability. WANDEL will adopt an interdisciplinary approach with multiscale consideration of the direct and indirect effects of energy generation on water resources. It will link data-based and model-based analyses of various energy scenarios with their direct and long-distance effects on the water sector. The project will use the case studies to map out regulatory and technical solutions for reducing negative impacts. It will also provide qualified consultancy services, and use a Web GIS to innovatively present the results and facilitate their use.

Project team at IGB

Martin Pusch

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Research group
Functional Ecology and Management of Rivers and Lake Shores

Sami Domisch

Research Group Leader
Research group
Global Freshwater Biodiversity, Biogeography and Conservation
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BMBF – funding measure “Global Resource Water” (GRoW)