Sustainable Water: Uncertainty, Risk and Vulnerability in Europe

SWURVE Partners

Team 5

Role

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Prof A. Musy, Dr B. Hingray, N. Mouhous, B. Schäfli, N. Mouhous
SIE, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Gr-Ecublens
Lausanne 1015
Switzerland

• e-mail andre.musy@epfl.ch; benoit.hingray@epfl.ch; nassima.mouhous@epfl.ch; bettina.schaefli@epfl.ch
• fax +41 21 693 37 39
• tel +41 21 693 37 25

EPFL are the leaders of Work Package 2 on sustainable management, and perform Case Study 3. They are based in Switzerland.

Collaborating end users for Team 5

• The Swiss Federal Office for Water and Geology (FOWG) is the reference Swiss institution for all topics related with water management and measurement. Specifically for SWURVE, FOWG has control of the water release at the weir at Nidau-Port, governing the levels of the Jura lake system (Case Study 3). FOWG will supply the following information for the Case Study:
  • optimal and critical curves for time evolution of lakes water level required by the different water users in the Jura
  • level-costs relation (dependent of season) required for estimation of costs of failure per each user
• FOWG is also responsible for overall dam safety in Switzerland, and will be one of two end-users of the results from Case Study 4.
• Forces Motrices de Mauvoisin (FMM) will supply details of hydropower operations of the dam to the Team for this Case Study, including:
  • daily target for hydroelectric production;
  • procedures for operating policy of the dam costs function and efficiency function of hydroelectric production.

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• Team 1 (UNEW : University of Newcastle)
• Team 2 (KNMI: Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute)
• Team 3 (ICAT: Instituto de Ciencias Aplicada e Tecnologia)
• Team 4 (UEA: University of East Anglia)
• Team 5 (EPFL: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)