21st century reality already sees 2.5 billion people without adequate access to water, whilst climate changes lead to dramatically changing water resources availability and needs. These changes will influence all citizens, and authorities will need more reliable information to adapt to the new situation. The MyWater project responds to these challenges, implementing a new information platform which integrates data from three scientific research areas – earth observation, meteorology and catchment modelling – to better access hydrological processes.

Earth observation satellites will be used to identify Land Cover Land Use (LCLU), measure Leaf Area Index (LAI), Evapotranspiration and Soil Moisture. On the other hand catchment models can estimate these parameters and allow confirming or complementing the satellite data. Meteorological data will provide information related to water availability (e.g. precipitation). The integrated use and improvement of the different information sources is expected to result in high reliability and accuracy of water services.

The MyWater platform will allow quasi-automatic service chains, which provide user tailored results like: drinking water needs (quantity and quality), agriculture water needs, flood scenarios, desertification scenarios, etc.

Overall, MyWater will provide reliable information on water quantity, quality and usage for appropriate water management, improving knowledge and creating the forecasting capabilities necessary to catchment managers, and at the same time optimizing the ratio cost/benefit of water resources monitoring.