pag. 1 Bruxelles 26/03/07 stakeholder forum IRRINET in the framework of the Water Conservation and water Protection Plan in Emilia-Romagna Tiziano Draghetti Environmental Directorate Emilia-Romagna Region

pag. 2 Bruxelles 26/03/07 stakeholder forum Emilia-Romagna Region - Italy Emilia-Romagna ( 44° latitude) is in the River Po valley, bounded by Po, Apennine Mountains to the South and the Adriatic Sea to the East

pag. 3 Bruxelles 26/03/07 stakeholder forum Water and Emilia-Romagna Region +The use of surface water is increasing, in order to face with the serious subsidence problems encountered in Ravenna, Bologna and in almost all Romagna territory. +Ravenna Law 1980: new groundwater abstraction forbidden and strictly regulated the existing ones most important new infrastructure: +Ridracoli Dam (33 Mm 3 ) civil use for Romagna +CER, irrigation canal: 150 km, 60Mc/sec from Po river in summer

pag. 4 Bruxelles 26/03/07 stakeholder forum

pag. 5 Bruxelles 26/03/07 stakeholder forum Trends Increase 1400 M. c.m. Stable 500 M c.b. Decrease 230 M c.m.

pag. 6 Bruxelles 26/03/07 stakeholder forum The Water Conservation Plan of Emilia-Romagna

pag. 7 Bruxelles 26/03/07 stakeholder forum IRRINET: IT services for farm water management implemented by CER Consorzio di Bonifica di secondo grado per il Canale Emiliano Romagnolo: +to optimise the use of water at farm level by transferring personalised technical indications. +The support is based on water balance according to specific research and studies carried out locally for more than 20 years +Started in 1984 with public founding to test telematics in agriculture (Videotext) on the WEB in GIS and advanced WEB interfaces in 2002 and information on water content in soil from the “ipodermic” network (Region+ provinces); in 2003: WEB + SMS (IrriSMS)

pag. 8 Bruxelles 26/03/07 stakeholder forum Irrinet plant and soil model

pag. 9 Bruxelles 26/03/07 stakeholder forum Meteo Data Base Soil Data Base Crop data CER Relationship Pubblic Administration-farm Adding value service Irrinet irrigation model

pag. 10 Bruxelles 26/03/07 stakeholder forum Input Data Form

pag. 11 Bruxelles 26/03/07 stakeholder forum Irrinet Output page predicted evapotraspiration Water irrigation deficit Next irrigation day Water irrigation depth mm when sprinkler irrigation or h min when microirrigation applied

pag. 12 Bruxelles 26/03/07 stakeholder forum Register of Farm Irrigation The irrigation applied on field are registered and this form act for Reg. CE 1257 statement, to demonstrates farm irrigation applied in case of official control

pag. 13 Bruxelles 26/03/07 stakeholder forum Irrinet-sms: further application way Expanding the IrriWeb users reaching the no-Internet farmers (new users) Managing less interactive users (new users) No need to be on the net for getting the irrigation scheduling (regular users) An extension member can manage hundreds of farms Providing additional information like meteo/disease alarms or advertising/tech update

pag. 14 Bruxelles 26/03/07 stakeholder forum Anonymous +N° of unique users Real-Time Irrigation scheduling provided Irrinet Highlights 2006 Registered +N° of reg. users 637 +Real-Time Irrigation scheduling provided IrriSMS +N° of SMS users 112 +N° of SMS sent 3.687

pag. 15 Bruxelles 26/03/07 stakeholder forum +Several associations of producers have joined IRRINET, operating a service which collect information relevant to their members from IRRINET, and providing personalized advises to farmers. +A remarkable example is the Consorzio di Bonifica Parmigiana Moglia, (a reclamation bureau) locate in the area of production of the Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese. A call centre from the Consortium operates both in booking and distributing water. +CER estimate water saving allowed by applying Irrinet in the 2006 about 50 million/m 3 on the 23% of the regional irrigated plain surface +the new vulnerable Zones action plan approved from the Region (nitrate Directive) suggest all the farmers to use Irrinet in order to reduce the nitrate discharge in the soil