Unité Technique du SEMIDE / EMWIS Technical Unit

Informations générales

Euro-Mediterranean Water Information System (EMWIS/SEMIDE)
The Marseilles Euro-Mediterranean Conference on Local Water Management (November 1996) initiated EMWIS with, as main objective, the provision, in all the partner countries, of large and depth knowledge, especially as regards the actors, the available documentation, techniques and methods, programs and results of research activities, training opportunities, etc.
The declaration of the ministerial conference on Local Water Management (Turin - Oct. 1999) emphasized the importance of EMWIS (Euro-Mediterranean Water Information System) as the first operational system of integration and cooperation under the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (Barcelona Process, 1995).
Today, EMWIS became the main tool for regional water information and knowledge exchange in the Mediterranean region.
It is also an operational tool for cooperation within the framework of the Barcelona Process: Union for the Mediterranean.