Abstract:
Climate change is bound to impact the water cycle and water availability, compounding the sustainable
management of its quantity and quality. Groundwater is bound to suffer the impacts of climate change, coupled
with those of land use changes, population and its lifestyles evolution. Climate change studies normaly have a 50
to 100 years horizon, which is a challenge for decision makers, who usually rely on relatively short therm data
and projections to implement their management policies. BINGO Project tries to address this gap, by providing
information of climate change impacts, including those of extreme events, on the water cycle for the short-tomedium
term. Climate change impacts on groundwater rely on mathematical modeling, using recharge
projections obtained from the climate forecasts of the Regional Climate Models set up for Europe. Sea level
change is also a component of this analysis and its ensuing impacts of saltwater intrusion on the coastal and
estuarine areas of Aluviões do Tejo and Bacia do Tejo-Sado/Margem Esquerda aquifers.
