Water and global change. The WATCH Project Outreach Report

The Water and Global Change (WATCH) programme was an Integrated Project funded under the European Union’s Sixth Framework Programme. It ran from February 2007 to July 2011. For the first time it brought together the hydrological, water resources and climate research communities at an international level. Together they analysed, quantified and predicted the components of the global water cycle and the related water resources – for the present and for the future. They also evaluated the associated uncertainties, and clarified the vulnerability of global water resources within key societal and economic sectors. The contacts and friendships that were made during the life of the project will benefit water research for many years to come.