The MAURICE project explores solutions in water management and land-use planning practices for public administrations and water management bodies to increase resilience to climate change. Climate change represents a risk to water availability in many Central European countries. These regions need to increase resilience to extreme weather events, such as droughts and urban floods, as well as depletion of urban groundwater resources. Both long-term declining groundwater levels and short-term overwatering represent urgent risks that require adequate water management practices to address.

The cooperation network of 11 organisations will jointly develop and implement 6 pilot actions, 8 solutions, 6 action plans and strategies for the benefit of cities, regions and water management and supply organisations.

The role of SoftWater in the project consists of three activities:

1. to statistically reconcile, for the territory of the Italian case study and up to the year 2100, the projections of the climate forcings (such as temperature, precipitation, etc.) publicly available with the historical measurements;
2. to implement expeditious models to represent the transformation of the climate forcings into inflow to Lake Maggiore, and this into the flows derived at PanPerduto towards the Villoresi canal and residual in the Ticino river;
3. to build a dashboard to interactively and synthetically display the main results of the Italian case study.