The document summarizes the activities of the Platform Water Management in the Alps over the past two years and outlines its planned activities for the next period. It discusses workshops held on sediment management, hydropeaking, and hydropower that brought together administrators, practitioners, and stakeholders. It also describes dissemination of guidelines on small hydropower and platform meetings. Going forward, the document outlines three planned workshops on local adaptation to climate change, flood risk prevention, and river management, as well as a conference on water in the Alps. The goals are to address EU directives in an alpine context and local adaptation to climate change.

1. Platform Water Management in the Alps
Presentation of the activities and proposal of the
new mandate
Martin Pfaundler, Swiss Federal Office for the Environment
(outgoing presidency)
Riccardo Rigon, Trento University (incoming presidency)
51th Permanent Committee of the Alpine Convention
Milano, 20 and 21th November 2012
Monday, January 14, 13

2. Activities during the last two years - 1
acts as a network of experts sharing experiences by means of workshops
(rather than scientific conferences => bringing together administrations,
practitioners and stakeholders
• Workshop Sediment Management Dec 2011 in Vienna, 50 participants
• Workshop Hydropeaking June 2012 in Zurich, 70 participants
• 4th Int. Conference on Water in the Alps « Sustainable Hydropower »
Oct 2012 in Munich
=> for all of these events slides and summary papers on www.alpconv.org
Monday, January 14, 13

3. Activities during the last two years - 2
• Dissemination & promotion activities of the Common Guidelines
on Small Hydropower
• Platform meetings:
> 1 formal meeting in Zurich (back to back to the hydropeaking workshop)
> 1 „informal“ meeting (back to back to the Munich conference) to finalize
the mandate
> informal communications around the workshops
> for the rest most of the communication and organizational aspects
among the platform members takes place via email to safe resources and
travel costs
Monday, January 14, 13

4. Outlook on the next period - 1
• The practice to acts as a network of experts sharing experiences by means
of workshops will be pursued.
• Three workshops were established:
• Local adaptation plans to climate change for water management:
experiences and strategies in place, probably to be held in Aosta, March
2013
• Prevention of hydrological risks in the alpine area: the flood risk and
the EU Directive 2007/60, autumn 2013, probably Brescia
• River management and geological processes, to be held in Lyon in 2014
Monday, January 14, 13

5. Outlook on the next period - 2
• 5th International Conference on Water in the Alps, Trento,
autumn 2014
• These activities should allow us to deal with:
- the appropriateness of the EU Directives for the alpine context;
- the local adaptation to climate change.
Monday, January 14, 13