29, 30 & 31 March 2022, Online

Objectives

The Opening Workshop was the first of a series of workshops on Water Quality Monitoring taking place during 2022-2023. It was intended to contribute to WMO’s Water Quality Long-Term ambition and fed into various activities from the key partners such as

1. Identifying potential synergies and mutual contributions between WMO-UNEP-WHO-UNESCO on in-situ water quality data observations, management and sharing.

2. Defining a WMO-UNEP-WHO-UNESCO coordination mechanism on in-situ water quality data observations, management and sharing.

3. Identifying the steps for the development of a joint WMO-UNEP-WHO-UNESCO work plan for regulatory and guidance material related to in-situ monitoring systems, from data collection to data sharing and use.

4. Identifying the way of interconnecting WHOS with GEMStat and other existing in-situ water quality data platforms and systems and how to connect these to the World Water Quality Assessment under development.

5. Identifying how to support the WaterML development in the domain of Water Quality: updating OGC WaterML -WQ Best Practice document with regards to evolutions in OGC APIs, and taxonomies/ontologies since 2014 and endorse an international standard on Water Quality data exchange.

6. Defining the Roadmap for an international OGC Interoperability Experiment on Water Quality data with pilot use cases (e.g., Lake Victoria, Lake Chad).

Meeting Agenda & WMO workshop page

See material here: https://hydrohub.wmo.int/en/news-events/opening-workshop-water-quality-monitoring

Day 1 & 2: domain needs

For more information, read the Workshop Report

Day 1 & 2 - part 1: Regulatory and Guidance material on Water Quality

The recording is available here

• Opening - Johannes Cullmann (WMO) & Hartwig Kremer (UNEP)
• World Water Quality Alliance & Proposed Series of Workshops - Nina Raasakka (UNEP)
• UNEP’s Global Environment Monitoring System for Freshwater - Kilian Christ (UNEP)
• Promoting science and innovation on water quality monitoring - Sarantuyaa Zandaryaa (UNESCO)
• WHO normative and monitoring products for WQ - Kate Medlicott (WHO)
• WMO Water Quality – a long term ambition - Tommaso Abrate (WMO)
• Hydrology Domain Working Group - Scott Simmons (OGC)

Day 1 & 2 - part 2: Coordinated operational support to UN Member States & WWQA

The recording is available here

• Q&A Session
• What are the countries' gaps and needs regarding regulatory and guidance material on Water Quality observations, management and sharing? - Fred Nyongesa (Water Resources Authority, Kenya)
• What is a synergized system we want to work towards? What is the added value of working together on WQ Regulatory and Guidance Material? - Melchior Elsler (UNEP)
• Closing - Johannes Cullmann (WMO) & Hartwig Kremer (UNEP)

Day 3: interoperable / FAIR answer to those needs

For more information, read the Workshop Report

Day 3 - part 1: Interoperability and interconnection of the existing Water Quality Data Systems

The recording is available here

• Opening - Tony Boston
• Introduction - Water Quality is Known - Silvano Pecora
• Water Quality data in practice: UNEP GEMS/Water & GEMStat - Philipp Saile
• Water Quality Data in Practice: The U.S. Experience and the Water Quality Exchange - Dwane Young
• Water quality data in practice: France and EU insight - Sylvain Grellet
• WMO Hydrological Observing System (WHOS) - Igor Chernov
• Discovery and Access Broker (DAB) technology - Enrico Boldrini
• Moderated discussion - Interoperability and interconnection of the existing Water Quality Data Systems - Sylvain Grellet

Day 3 - part 2: Identifying how to support the WaterML development in the domain of Water Quality

The recording is available here

• Water quality information models - Simon Cox, Bruce Simons
• Moderated discussion - Identifying how to support the WaterML development in the domain of Water Quality - Philipp Saile

Day 3 - part 3: a Roadmap for the Water Quality Interoperability Experiment

The recording is available here

• Water Quality Data Interoperability Experiment - Sylvain Grellet
• Moderated discussion - Defining a Roadmap for the Water Quality Interoperability Experiment - David Blodgett
• Way forward for the Roadmap - David Blodgett & Sylvain Grellet
• Closing - Johannes Cullmann

-- DavidBlodgett - 02 Mar 2022