Held in Milano from 20 to 22 May 2026, FutureWater took part in the SOS-Water project consortium meeting.

Forty-four months into the project, and close to its end in September 2026, the Milano General Assembly meeting reviewed the progress and results derived from the application of the Safe Operating Space for Water in the project pilot basins of Rhine, Danube, Jucar and Mekong Delta. During the consortium meeting, and as part of the SOS-Water seminar series, research-professors Hector Macián-Sorribes and Manuel Pulido-Velázquez, both at IIAMA-UPV , delivered a webinar on the use of water-related indicators as key components for the quantification of water security and sustainability at the basin level.

During the meeting, several aspects were addressed relating to a) the integration and communication of uncertainty, b) the visualization of results through a dynamic, interactive and user-friendly web-dashboard, c) the presentation and communication of results to stakeholders through policy briefs, and d) the exploitation and sustainability of the methodology after the end of the project.

Within its scope of action, which focuses on the use of satellite data and the development of applications and EO-based services for SOS-Water, FutureWater, together with Eawag, presented the foundations upon which the next deliverable, “Recommendations for the promotion of Copernicus and GEOSS services”, will be based. The main barriers and recommendations developed by the European Water-ForCE project were discussed, and attendees’ views were gathered regarding the usefulness and potential of satellite services for improving the accuracy of key indicators used in the Operational Water Security Space at the catchment level.