Path4Med: a working regular meeting of the NUBiP’s team
Path4Med: a working regular meeting of the NUBiP’s team
On 24 December, the NUBiP’s team of the Path4Med EU Horizon project had a working kick-off meeting. They discussed the short progress of the Ukrainian demonstration site and the challenges of obtaining future results. Reminded, the NUBiP of Ukraine is the leader of the Demonstration site 3 “Future pathways for zero pollution in the Dnipro Basin under emerging challenges and threats” in the Path4Med Horizon European project “Demonstrating Innovative Pathways Addressing Water and Soil Pollution in the Mediterranean Agro-Hydro-System”.
During an intensive discussion, Vita Strokal highlighted the main deadlines of the related task results and explained the next steps. She also said that stakeholder mapping and cost-benefit analysis are the main tasks that our team needs to finish by the end of January 2025.
Oleksandr Labenko explained about the collection of the agricultural activities and identification of strategies to address water scarcity on the farm scale. Meanwhile, he justified that the datasets of social-economic drivers of the Dnipro basin are so significant to do cost-benefit analysis.
Maryna Ladyka added information on collected seasonal precipitation and air temperature of all regions of Ukraine (1981-2020) and monthly precipitation and air temperature of the meteorological stations near the water samplings in the Dnipro Basin (1970-2023).
Svitlana Palamarchuk described collected datasets of agricultural activities in Ukraine that included crop area, crop yield, and fertilizers. She is continuing to collect these data.
Olena Naumovska reported about one of the stakeholder groups – farmers. She also agreed that we need to start collecting datasets on the socio-economic drivers and urbanization of the Dnipro River Basin. This will be useful for figuring out the economic costs and benefits of different strategies to address water scarcity on the farm scale.
Larysa Voitenko discussed reviewing existing water quantity and quality indicators in Ukraine. She said that we need to apply datasets of official water intakes in the Dnipro Basin for a minimum of three years (2021-2023). These data will contribute to identifying water quality indicators in this basin. Meanwhile, it will pursue water quality monitoring and assessment in the Dnipro Basin in Ukraine (it is input to case 2 of the Ukrainian DS).
Summarizing all statements, we highlighted the next steps which include: (1) to conduct stakeholder mapping; (2) to figure out the economic costs and benefits of different strategies to address water scarcity on the farm scale; (3) to work on analyses of water parameters; (4) to start to collect datasets of socio-economic drivers and urbanization of the Dnipro River Basin; (5) to organize the third water sampling at the end of January.
Vita Strokal & Oleksandr Labenko
