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Journal article
Published: 07 October 2020 in Agricultural Water Management
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Water pricing has been identified as a generally valid water supply policy to help solve problems of water scarcity and competition. As for the non-agricultural sectors, in the last three decades water pricing has been widely discussed in and promoted with regard to the irrigation management, though in the actual practice its effectiveness is quite controversial. This is particularly true in semi-arid regions, where conjunctive use of collective facilities and on-farm groundwater pumps may cause conflicts and mismanagement of water resources. Under such circumstances, irrigation water pricing policies are not easy to deploy and implement effectively, due to potential occurrence of side and unintended effects. In this framework, the present work aims at investigating the impact at the district scale of water pricing policies, on both surface water (SW) and groundwater (GW) resources. In this regard, a model which deals with the analysis of farmers’ decision concerning water source selection is proposed. The analysis is carried out keeping capital asset as given, also with the aim to elicit the relevance of on-farm irrigation water cost on resources use during the irrigation season. Reference is made to an intensive agricultural district in Southern Italy, conjunctively supplied by collective schemes managed by the local irrigation board and on-farm individual groundwater pumping systems. The proposed model was built along with local stakeholders, in order to (i) underline the relationship between the water tariff applied for collective supply service and the irrigation source selection during the irrigation season; and (ii) the relevance of the conjunctive use of GW based on pumping cost convenience and service standards needed to fulfill the irrigation requirements. The results have been then integrated into a quantitative water balance model, and a scenario analysis used to show the potential side impacts that a restrictive SW tariff policy applied during drought periods may have on the GW state, in different hydrological conditions.

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Ivan Portoghese; Giacomo Giannoccaro; Raffaele Giordano; Alessandro Pagano. Modeling the impacts of volumetric water pricing in irrigation districts with conjunctive use of surface and groundwater resources. Agricultural Water Management 2020, 244, 106561 .

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Ivan Portoghese, Giacomo Giannoccaro, Raffaele Giordano, Alessandro Pagano. Modeling the impacts of volumetric water pricing in irrigation districts with conjunctive use of surface and groundwater resources. Agricultural Water Management. 2020; 244 ():106561.

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Ivan Portoghese; Giacomo Giannoccaro; Raffaele Giordano; Alessandro Pagano. 2020. "Modeling the impacts of volumetric water pricing in irrigation districts with conjunctive use of surface and groundwater resources." Agricultural Water Management 244, no. : 106561.

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Published: 15 July 2020 in Water
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In the test site of Castellana Grotte (Southern Italy), since 2016, around 2300 m3d−1 of tertiary treated wastewater has been alternatively spread in nine infiltration trenches, dug into fractured and karstified limestone. In one of these trenches, located upstream, seasonal variations in the infiltration rate were observed, with a lower infiltration rate during summer than in winter. This effect could be due to the occurrence of a bioclogging phenomenon in the warm season. In addition, time-lapse electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) was carried out in two different periods, corresponding to the wet and dry seasons, in order to investigate the infiltration process dynamics below the bottom of the trench. Remarkable variability was observed between the south and north sides of the trench—clearly related to the local-scale heterogeneity of the rock formation of the trenches. The results suggest that such an integrated approach should be considered of great interest in case of using infiltration trenches as managed aquifer recharge (MAR) plants. This methodology could provide useful information about the heterogeneities of the rock formation, supporting an alert system for the identification of clogging effects during the life cycle of the plant.

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Lorenzo De Carlo; Maria Clementina Caputo; Rita Masciale; Michele Vurro; Ivan Portoghese. Monitoring the Drainage Efficiency of Infiltration Trenches in Fractured and Karstified Limestone via Time-Lapse Hydrogeophysical Approach. Water 2020, 12, 2009 .

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Lorenzo De Carlo, Maria Clementina Caputo, Rita Masciale, Michele Vurro, Ivan Portoghese. Monitoring the Drainage Efficiency of Infiltration Trenches in Fractured and Karstified Limestone via Time-Lapse Hydrogeophysical Approach. Water. 2020; 12 (7):2009.

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Lorenzo De Carlo; Maria Clementina Caputo; Rita Masciale; Michele Vurro; Ivan Portoghese. 2020. "Monitoring the Drainage Efficiency of Infiltration Trenches in Fractured and Karstified Limestone via Time-Lapse Hydrogeophysical Approach." Water 12, no. 7: 2009.

Journal article
Published: 18 April 2020 in Sustainability
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The hydrological monitoring of springs is an auxiliary and indispensable tool that goes alongside investigations in wells to reconstruct a conceptual phenomenological model of an aquifer–groundwater system and its interactions with surface waters. There are manifold ways to carry out this monitoring, but the choice of which way is significant for a correct qualitative and quantitative knowledge of spring systems. The present work focuses on the characterization of the thermo-saline and flow regimes of the Tara spring system along the northern coast of Taranto (southern Italy), where a karst groundwater basin is the major source of the Tara River and the surrounding coastal wetland. A series of measurements was carried out on the spring system to support a technical feasibility study on the possible use of the brackish water of this river to feed a future desalination plant. To estimate the flow rate, a comparison was made between different flow measurement methods in a derivation channel. Through an analysis of the available dataset, the response of the aquifer to the autumn–winter recharge, for which updated hydrologic measurements were not available, is highlighted.

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Ivan Portoghese; Rita Masciale; Maria C. Caputo; Lorenzo De Carlo; Daniela Malcangio. Combined Discharge and Thermo-Salinity Measurements for the Characterization of a Karst Spring System in Southern Italy. Sustainability 2020, 12, 3311 .

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Ivan Portoghese, Rita Masciale, Maria C. Caputo, Lorenzo De Carlo, Daniela Malcangio. Combined Discharge and Thermo-Salinity Measurements for the Characterization of a Karst Spring System in Southern Italy. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (8):3311.

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Ivan Portoghese; Rita Masciale; Maria C. Caputo; Lorenzo De Carlo; Daniela Malcangio. 2020. "Combined Discharge and Thermo-Salinity Measurements for the Characterization of a Karst Spring System in Southern Italy." Sustainability 12, no. 8: 3311.

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Published: 11 February 2019 in Water Resources Management
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Irrigated agriculture plays a vital role for the socio-economic development of the Mediterranean area, although it has significant impacts on both water and energy resources. Therefore, in a context in which water resources are also experiencing increasing pressures, there is an urgent need for supporting their sustainable management. This may be an extremely challenging task, especially at the local scale, due to the several interconnected dynamics affecting the state of a complex irrigation system. In fact, multiple actors are involved in decision-making processes, and the use of natural resources (and their mutual interactions) strongly depends on their behaviors, which affect the system as a whole. In this context, the present study proposes an integrated methodology, based on the Water Energy Food Nexus (WEFN), specifically focused on the sustainable management of water resources for irrigation. Firstly, a model based on Causal Loop Diagrams (CLD) is developed in order to get a deep insight into the key dynamics behind a complex irrigation system. Secondly, three indices based on the “footprint” concept are identified, in order to synthesize such dynamics. The integration of these two approaches support investigating the whole system and, particularly, understanding the influence of multiple decisional actors on it, as well as the role of a set of key drivers and constraints. This might also allow drawing some relevant conclusions, useful for supporting effective decisions oriented to a sustainable water resources management. Specific reference is made to a case study, the Capitanata irrigation system, located in the Southern Italy.

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Rossella De Vito; Alessandro Pagano; Ivan Portoghese; Raffaele Giordano; Michele Vurro; Umberto Fratino. Integrated Approach for Supporting Sustainable Water Resources Management of Irrigation Based on the WEFN Framework. Water Resources Management 2019, 33, 1281 -1295.

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Rossella De Vito, Alessandro Pagano, Ivan Portoghese, Raffaele Giordano, Michele Vurro, Umberto Fratino. Integrated Approach for Supporting Sustainable Water Resources Management of Irrigation Based on the WEFN Framework. Water Resources Management. 2019; 33 (4):1281-1295.

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Rossella De Vito; Alessandro Pagano; Ivan Portoghese; Raffaele Giordano; Michele Vurro; Umberto Fratino. 2019. "Integrated Approach for Supporting Sustainable Water Resources Management of Irrigation Based on the WEFN Framework." Water Resources Management 33, no. 4: 1281-1295.

Journal article
Published: 11 June 2018 in Water
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Management of water supply systems under shortage conditions due to drought requires computational tools able to relate the past precipitation regime over different time scales to future water resources availability. This work proposes a modelling framework to address the occurrence of shortage for water supply systems whose resource is constituted by natural or artificial reservoirs. The proposed methodology aims at identifying “management triggers” for possible mitigation measures. Emphasis is given on the use of standardized indices to promote information sharing. The implemented tool is structured into five modules: “hydrological” module; “scenarios” module; “reservoir” module; a module for the evaluation of “indices of shortage”; and a “support to early-warning” module. The whole procedure has been applied to three Italian reservoirs. For each water body, a case specific shortage early-warning system, based on standardized precipitation indices has been identified, allowing the implementation of efficient local mitigation measures.

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Emanuele Romano; Nicolas Guyennon; Andrea Duro; Raffaele Giordano; Anna Bruna Petrangeli; Ivan Portoghese; Franco Salerno. A Stakeholder Oriented Modelling Framework for the Early Detection of Shortage in Water Supply Systems. Water 2018, 10, 762 .

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Emanuele Romano, Nicolas Guyennon, Andrea Duro, Raffaele Giordano, Anna Bruna Petrangeli, Ivan Portoghese, Franco Salerno. A Stakeholder Oriented Modelling Framework for the Early Detection of Shortage in Water Supply Systems. Water. 2018; 10 (6):762.

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Emanuele Romano; Nicolas Guyennon; Andrea Duro; Raffaele Giordano; Anna Bruna Petrangeli; Ivan Portoghese; Franco Salerno. 2018. "A Stakeholder Oriented Modelling Framework for the Early Detection of Shortage in Water Supply Systems." Water 10, no. 6: 762.

Journal article
Published: 01 June 2018 in Journal of Hydrology
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The main goal of this study is to evaluate the reliability of the Mise-á-la-Masse (MALM) technique associated with saline tracer tests for the characterization of groundwater flow direction and velocity. The experimental site is located in the upper part of the Alento River alluvial plain (Campania Region, Southern Italy). In this paper we present the hydrogeological setting, the experimental setup and the relevant field results. Subsequently, we compare those data against the simulated results obtained with a 3D resistivity model of the test area, coupled with a model describing the Advection – Dispersion equation for continuous tracer injection. In particular, we calculate a series of 3D forward solutions starting from a reference model, all derived from electrical tomography results, but taking into consideration different values of mean flow velocity and directions. Each electrical resistivity 3D model is used to produce synthetic voltage maps for MALM surveys. Finally, the synthetic MALM voltage maps are compared with the ones measured in the field in order to assess the information content of the MALM dataset with respect to the groundwater field characteristics. The results demonstrate that the information content of the MALM data is sufficient to define important characteristics of the aquifer geometry and properties.\ud This work shows how a combination of three-dimensional time-lapse modeling of flow, tracer transport and electrical current can substantially contribute towards a quantitative interpretation of\ud MALM measurements during a saline tracer test. This approach can thus revive the use of MALM as a practical, low cost field technique for tracer test monitoring and aquifer hydrodynamic characterization

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Maria Teresa Perri; Pantaleone De Vita; Rita Masciale; Ivan Portoghese; Giovanni Battista Chirico; Giorgio Cassiani. Time-lapse Mise-á-la-Masse measurements and modeling for tracer test monitoring in a shallow aquifer. Journal of Hydrology 2018, 561, 461 -477.

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Maria Teresa Perri, Pantaleone De Vita, Rita Masciale, Ivan Portoghese, Giovanni Battista Chirico, Giorgio Cassiani. Time-lapse Mise-á-la-Masse measurements and modeling for tracer test monitoring in a shallow aquifer. Journal of Hydrology. 2018; 561 ():461-477.

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Maria Teresa Perri; Pantaleone De Vita; Rita Masciale; Ivan Portoghese; Giovanni Battista Chirico; Giorgio Cassiani. 2018. "Time-lapse Mise-á-la-Masse measurements and modeling for tracer test monitoring in a shallow aquifer." Journal of Hydrology 561, no. : 461-477.

Conference paper
Published: 01 January 2018 in 24th European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics
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In Italy, during the last decades, the infiltration ponds are increasingly used to dispose of effluent in the subsurface, according to the current regulation DL 152/06. In Apulia Region, Southern Italy, about 30 wastewater treatment plants are connected to an infiltration ponds network where the effluent is naturally infiltrated in the unsaturated zone, exploiting its natural filtering capacities against organics, chemicals and contaminants. At the same time, this approach could be particularly efficient in treatment plants located near the coastline to face contamination phenomena such as salt-water intrusion, as well as to artificially recharge shallow aquifer. The infiltration ponds are typically subjected to cyclic saturation and desaturation conditions that can affect the hydrological properties of the filtering medium, hence itd life cycle. Therefore, for the optimal management of the infiltration ponds, a detailed monitoring of infiltration dynamics is required. In the experimental test area of Castellana Grotte, more than 2000 m3/day are alternatively infiltrated into nine infiltration ponds.In order to evaluate infiltration patterns under different hydrological conditions, a time-lapse Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) has been carried out in two periods of the year, in March and July, corresponding about to the maximum and minimum rainfall periods of a hydrological year.

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L. De Carlo; R. Masciale; Ivan Portoghese; M. Vurro; M.C. Caputo. Monitoring Wastewater Disposal Dynamics through Infiltration Ponds by Using Time-Lapse ERT Survey. 24th European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics 2018, 1 .

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L. De Carlo, R. Masciale, Ivan Portoghese, M. Vurro, M.C. Caputo. Monitoring Wastewater Disposal Dynamics through Infiltration Ponds by Using Time-Lapse ERT Survey. 24th European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics. 2018; ():1.

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L. De Carlo; R. Masciale; Ivan Portoghese; M. Vurro; M.C. Caputo. 2018. "Monitoring Wastewater Disposal Dynamics through Infiltration Ponds by Using Time-Lapse ERT Survey." 24th European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 01 December 2017 in Advances in Water Resources
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Rossella DE Vito; Ivan Portoghese; Alessandro Pagano; Umberto Fratino; Michele Vurro. An index-based approach for the sustainability assessment of irrigation practice based on the water-energy-food nexus framework. Advances in Water Resources 2017, 110, 423 -436.

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Rossella DE Vito, Ivan Portoghese, Alessandro Pagano, Umberto Fratino, Michele Vurro. An index-based approach for the sustainability assessment of irrigation practice based on the water-energy-food nexus framework. Advances in Water Resources. 2017; 110 ():423-436.

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Rossella DE Vito; Ivan Portoghese; Alessandro Pagano; Umberto Fratino; Michele Vurro. 2017. "An index-based approach for the sustainability assessment of irrigation practice based on the water-energy-food nexus framework." Advances in Water Resources 110, no. : 423-436.

Journal article
Published: 08 September 2017 in Water
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Agriculture and farming worldwide are responsible for numerous environmental threats, including degradation of land and water resource depletion. Underlining the dynamic interaction between bio-physical and socio-economic drivers is the key towards a more sustainable land and water management. With regard to a highly-developed agricultural area in Southern Italy, multi-regression models were developed to provide an ex-post interpretation of the observed inter-annual variability of cropped land. The main drivers related to Common Agricultural Policy support, product market prices, crop yield, and irrigation water availability were investigated. The adopted models revealed the different weights of each driver. The findings reported the role that direct payments played in supporting the extension of irrigated crops, such as processing tomato. Likewise, the models pointed out the decoupled payment scheme as the most important driver of change in the crop pattern over the last years.

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Donato Zingaro; Ivan Portoghese; Giacomo Giannoccaro. Modelling Crop Pattern Changes and Water Resources Exploitation: A Case Study. Water 2017, 9, 685 .

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Donato Zingaro, Ivan Portoghese, Giacomo Giannoccaro. Modelling Crop Pattern Changes and Water Resources Exploitation: A Case Study. Water. 2017; 9 (9):685.

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Donato Zingaro; Ivan Portoghese; Giacomo Giannoccaro. 2017. "Modelling Crop Pattern Changes and Water Resources Exploitation: A Case Study." Water 9, no. 9: 685.

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Published: 08 September 2017 in Water
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Among different uses of freshwater, irrigation is the most impacting groundwater resource, leading to water table depletion and possible seawater intrusion. The unbalance between the availability of water resources and demand is currently exacerbated and could become worse in the near future in accordance with climate change observations and scenarios provided by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In this context, Increasing Maximum Capacity of the surface reservoir (IMC) and Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) are adaptation measures that have the potential to enhance water supply systems resiliency. In this paper, a multiple-users and multiple-resources-Water Supply System (WSS) model is implemented to evaluate the effectiveness of these two adaptation strategies in a context of overexploited groundwater under the RCP 4.5 and the RCP 8.5 IPCC scenarios. The presented a case study that is located in the Puglia, a semi-arid region of South Italy characterized by a conspicuous water demand for irrigation. We observed that, although no significant long-term trend affects the proposed precipitation scenarios, the expected temperature increase highly impacts the WSS resources due to the associated increase of water demand for irrigation purposes. Under the RCP 4.5 the MAR scenario results are more effective than the IMC during long term wet periods (typically 5 years) and successfully compensates the impact on the groundwater resources. Differently, under RCP 8.5, due to more persistent dry periods, both adaptation scenarios fail and groundwater resource become exposed to massive sea water intrusion during the second half of the century. We conclude that the MAR scenario is a suitable adaptation strategy to face the expected future changes in climate, although mitigation actions to reduce green-house gases are strongly required.

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Nicolas Guyennon; Franco Salerno; Ivan Portoghese; Emanuele Romano. Climate Change Adaptation in a Mediterranean Semi-Arid Catchment: Testing Managed Aquifer Recharge and Increased Surface Reservoir Capacity. Water 2017, 9, 689 .

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Nicolas Guyennon, Franco Salerno, Ivan Portoghese, Emanuele Romano. Climate Change Adaptation in a Mediterranean Semi-Arid Catchment: Testing Managed Aquifer Recharge and Increased Surface Reservoir Capacity. Water. 2017; 9 (9):689.

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Nicolas Guyennon; Franco Salerno; Ivan Portoghese; Emanuele Romano. 2017. "Climate Change Adaptation in a Mediterranean Semi-Arid Catchment: Testing Managed Aquifer Recharge and Increased Surface Reservoir Capacity." Water 9, no. 9: 689.

Conference paper
Published: 05 June 2017 in Water and Society IV
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The present work describes a model developed to interpret water allocation patterns in an intensive agricultural district of Southern Italy, supplied...

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Donato Zingaro; Ivan Portoghese; Alessandro Pagano; Raffaele Giordano; Michele Vurro. MIGRAD: A WATER ALLOCATION MODEL FOR MULTI-RESOURCES IRRIGATION SUPPLY SYSTEMS IN THE CAPITANATA DISTRICT, ITALY. Water and Society IV 2017, 216, 323 -334.

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Donato Zingaro, Ivan Portoghese, Alessandro Pagano, Raffaele Giordano, Michele Vurro. MIGRAD: A WATER ALLOCATION MODEL FOR MULTI-RESOURCES IRRIGATION SUPPLY SYSTEMS IN THE CAPITANATA DISTRICT, ITALY. Water and Society IV. 2017; 216 ():323-334.

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Donato Zingaro; Ivan Portoghese; Alessandro Pagano; Raffaele Giordano; Michele Vurro. 2017. "MIGRAD: A WATER ALLOCATION MODEL FOR MULTI-RESOURCES IRRIGATION SUPPLY SYSTEMS IN THE CAPITANATA DISTRICT, ITALY." Water and Society IV 216, no. : 323-334.

Proceedings article
Published: 04 September 2016 in Near Surface Geoscience 2016 - 22nd European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics
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The Alimini water system, located in south eastern part of Italy, named Salento peninsula, is constituted from two connected coastal lakes, Alimini Piccolo and Alimini Grande. Specifically, Alimini Piccolo is a small freshwater body, directly fed by rainfall and by shallow porous aquifer through of several springs. From '50s Alimini Piccolo provides the surrounding area with water for agriculture and domestic use. In June 2013, IRSA-CNR started a study concerning the quali-quantitative characterization of the hydrogeological system feeding the Alimini Piccolo, in order to investigate the potential for additional exploiting of the lake as a resource for drinking water. For the purpose, a monitoring system has been set up for an entire hydrological year. Continuous measurements of water level, electrical conductivity and temperature, such as quantitative and qualitative monitoring monthly campaigns both in groundwater and in the lake have been carried out. In order to support the above mentioned surveys, Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) has been carried out to identify geological structures and hydrogeological features, to better understand the system feeding the Alimini Piccolo and to set the boundary conditions of the hydrological model useful to represent the water balance of the lake.

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L. De Carlo; R. Masciale; I. Portoghese; M. Vurro; M.C. Caputo. ERT Surveys to Investigate the Hydrogeological System Feeding the Alimini Piccolo Lake. Near Surface Geoscience 2016 - 22nd European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics 2016, 1 .

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L. De Carlo, R. Masciale, I. Portoghese, M. Vurro, M.C. Caputo. ERT Surveys to Investigate the Hydrogeological System Feeding the Alimini Piccolo Lake. Near Surface Geoscience 2016 - 22nd European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics. 2016; ():1.

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L. De Carlo; R. Masciale; I. Portoghese; M. Vurro; M.C. Caputo. 2016. "ERT Surveys to Investigate the Hydrogeological System Feeding the Alimini Piccolo Lake." Near Surface Geoscience 2016 - 22nd European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 01 September 2016 in Science of The Total Environment
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The assessment of the impact of long-term climate variability on water supply systems depends not only on possible variations of the resources availability, but also on the variation of the demand. In this framework, a robust estimation of direct (climate induced) and indirect (anthropogenically induced) effects of climate change is mandatory to design mitigation measures, especially in those regions of the planet where the groundwater equilibrium is strongly perturbed by exploitations for irrigation purposes. The main goal of this contribution is to propose a comprehensive model that integrates distributed crop water requirements with surface and groundwater mass balance, able to consider management rules of the water supply system. The proposed overall model, implemented, calibrated and validated for the case study of the Fortore water supply system (Apulia region, South Italy), permits to simulate the conjunctive use of the water from a surface artificial reservoir and from groundwater. The relative contributions of groundwater recharges and withdrawals to the aquifer stress have been evaluated under different climate perturbations, with emphasis on irrigation practices. Results point out that irrigated agriculture primarily affects groundwater discharge, indicating that ecosystem services connected to river base flow are particularly exposed to climate variation in irrigated areas. Moreover, findings show that the recharge both to surface and to groundwater is mainly affected by drier climate conditions, while hotter conditions have a major impact on the water demand. The non-linearity arising from combined drier and hotter conditions may exacerbate the aquifer stress by exposing it to massive sea-water intrusion.

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Nicolas Guyennon; Emanuele Romano; Ivan Portoghese. Long-term climate sensitivity of an integrated water supply system: The role of irrigation. Science of The Total Environment 2016, 565, 68 -81.

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Nicolas Guyennon, Emanuele Romano, Ivan Portoghese. Long-term climate sensitivity of an integrated water supply system: The role of irrigation. Science of The Total Environment. 2016; 565 ():68-81.

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Nicolas Guyennon; Emanuele Romano; Ivan Portoghese. 2016. "Long-term climate sensitivity of an integrated water supply system: The role of irrigation." Science of The Total Environment 565, no. : 68-81.

Conference paper
Published: 06 September 2015 in Near Surface Geoscience 2015 - 21st European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics
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This study presents the results of a saline tracer test conducted on an unconfined alluvial aquifer placed in the Alento River Valley (Campania region, South-Western Italy) and monitored by Mise-à-la-Masse measurements. The aim of this test is the investigation of groundwater flow field by a time-lapse analysis. The work first introduces the local hydrogeology of the investigated system and the experimental set-up. The results of the geophysical tracer test are then described and followed by the discussion of several simulations conducted on a 3D electrical model of the system. Finally, the comparison between real and simulated datasets is discussed in order to highlight advantages and limitations of Mise-à-la Masse technique when applied for hydrogeological purposes.

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M.T. Perri; P. De Vita; G. Cassiani; R. Masciale; I. Portoghese; G.B. Chirico. Quantitative Interpretation of Time-lapse MALM Measurements During a Saline Tracer Injection in an Alluvial Aquifer. Near Surface Geoscience 2015 - 21st European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics 2015, 1 .

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M.T. Perri, P. De Vita, G. Cassiani, R. Masciale, I. Portoghese, G.B. Chirico. Quantitative Interpretation of Time-lapse MALM Measurements During a Saline Tracer Injection in an Alluvial Aquifer. Near Surface Geoscience 2015 - 21st European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics. 2015; ():1.

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M.T. Perri; P. De Vita; G. Cassiani; R. Masciale; I. Portoghese; G.B. Chirico. 2015. "Quantitative Interpretation of Time-lapse MALM Measurements During a Saline Tracer Injection in an Alluvial Aquifer." Near Surface Geoscience 2015 - 21st European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 10 January 2015 in British Journal of Applied Science & Technology
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Talal Darwish; Amin Shaban; Ivan Portoghese; Michele Vurro; Roula Khadra; Sagedah Saqallah; Laurent Drapeau; Simon Gascoin; Nabil Amacha. Inducing Water Productivity from Snow Cover for Sustainable Water Management in Ibrahim River Basin, Lebanon. British Journal of Applied Science & Technology 2015, 5, 233 -243.

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Talal Darwish, Amin Shaban, Ivan Portoghese, Michele Vurro, Roula Khadra, Sagedah Saqallah, Laurent Drapeau, Simon Gascoin, Nabil Amacha. Inducing Water Productivity from Snow Cover for Sustainable Water Management in Ibrahim River Basin, Lebanon. British Journal of Applied Science & Technology. 2015; 5 (3):233-243.

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Talal Darwish; Amin Shaban; Ivan Portoghese; Michele Vurro; Roula Khadra; Sagedah Saqallah; Laurent Drapeau; Simon Gascoin; Nabil Amacha. 2015. "Inducing Water Productivity from Snow Cover for Sustainable Water Management in Ibrahim River Basin, Lebanon." British Journal of Applied Science & Technology 5, no. 3: 233-243.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2015 in Agricultural Water Management
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Raffaele Giordano; Daniela D’Agostino; Ciro Apollonio; Alessandra Scardigno; Alessandro Pagano; Ivan Portoghese; Nicola Lamaddalena; Alberto Ferruccio Piccinni; Michele Vurro. Evaluating acceptability of groundwater protection measures under different agricultural policies. Agricultural Water Management 2015, 147, 54 -66.

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Raffaele Giordano, Daniela D’Agostino, Ciro Apollonio, Alessandra Scardigno, Alessandro Pagano, Ivan Portoghese, Nicola Lamaddalena, Alberto Ferruccio Piccinni, Michele Vurro. Evaluating acceptability of groundwater protection measures under different agricultural policies. Agricultural Water Management. 2015; 147 ():54-66.

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Raffaele Giordano; Daniela D’Agostino; Ciro Apollonio; Alessandra Scardigno; Alessandro Pagano; Ivan Portoghese; Nicola Lamaddalena; Alberto Ferruccio Piccinni; Michele Vurro. 2015. "Evaluating acceptability of groundwater protection measures under different agricultural policies." Agricultural Water Management 147, no. : 54-66.

Book chapter
Published: 04 November 2014 in Managing Water Resources under Climate Uncertainty
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The most critical impacts of climatic change on the Mediterranean society and environment are likely to be associated with water availability. The whole area is expected to become vulnerable to the scarcity and irregular availability of water resources. In the framework of the FP6 EU CIRCE project (http://www.circeproject.eu/), a Regional Assessment of Climate Change in the Mediterranean (RACCM) was produced in 2013 to support the design of adaptation and mitigation policies on the whole region including Europe, North Africa, and the Middle-East. To this end, a set of coupled models has been developed to produce regional climate change projections. These projections allow assessment of the response of the Mediterranean Sea to climate change over the period 1950–2050 under the A1B hypothesis and to a large extent, the associated uncertainty. Some results concerning the use of CIRCE scenarios for the assessment of impacts on water resources are presented with an emphasis on the methodological approach to bridge the scale gaps between climate model structure and the resolution of basin-scale hydrology. Focusing on Southern Italy, the sustainability of surface and groundwater resources is explored. Additional results concerning a coastal catchment in Lebanon are presented. In this case study regarding a snow-dominated hydrological system, the combined effect of changes in temperature and precipitation is highlighted. The above methodological approach set-up for the Mediterranean area could be adopted for regions in Southeast Asia where in order to undertake similar impact studies, the local scale of investigation plays a determinant role for water resources assessment and flood protection.

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Ivan Portoghese; Michele Vurro; Antonio Lopez. Assessing the Impacts of Climate Change on Water Resources: Experiences From the Mediterranean Region. Managing Water Resources under Climate Uncertainty 2014, 177 -195.

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Ivan Portoghese, Michele Vurro, Antonio Lopez. Assessing the Impacts of Climate Change on Water Resources: Experiences From the Mediterranean Region. Managing Water Resources under Climate Uncertainty. 2014; ():177-195.

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Ivan Portoghese; Michele Vurro; Antonio Lopez. 2014. "Assessing the Impacts of Climate Change on Water Resources: Experiences From the Mediterranean Region." Managing Water Resources under Climate Uncertainty , no. : 177-195.

Journal article
Published: 28 June 2014 in Natural Hazards
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Drinking water security is a life safety issue as an adequate supply of safe water is essential for economic, social and sanitary reasons. Damage to any element of a water system, as well as corruption of resource quality, may have significant effects on the population it serves and on all other dependent resources and activities. As well as an analysis of the reliability of water distribution systems in ordinary conditions, it is also crucial to assess system vulnerability in the event of natural disasters and of malicious or accidental anthropogenic acts. The present work summarizes the initial results of research activities that are underway with the intention of developing a vulnerability assessment methodology for drinking water infrastructures subject to hazardous events. The main aim of the work was therefore to provide decision makers with an effective operational tool which could support them mainly to increase risk awareness and preparedness and, possibly, to ease emergency management. The proposed tool is based on Bayesian Belief Networks (BBN), a probabilistic methodology which has demonstrated outstanding potential to integrate a range of sources of knowledge, a great flexibility and the ability to handle in a mathematically sound way uncertainty due to data scarcity and/or limited knowledge of the system to be managed. The tool was implemented to analyze the vulnerability of two of the most important water supply systems in the Apulia region (southern Italy) which have been damaged in the past by natural hazards. As well as being useful for testing and improving the predictive capabilities of the methodology and for possibly modifying its structure and features, the case studies have also helped to underline its strengths and weaknesses. Particularly, the experiences carried out demonstrated how the use of BBN was consistent with the lack of data reliability, quality and accessibility which are typical of complex infrastructures, such as the water distribution networks. The potential applications and future developments of the proposed tool have been also discussed accordingly.

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Alessandro Pagano; Raffaele Giordano; Ivan Portoghese; Umberto Fratino; Michele Vurro. A Bayesian vulnerability assessment tool for drinking water mains under extreme events. Natural Hazards 2014, 74, 2193 -2227.

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Alessandro Pagano, Raffaele Giordano, Ivan Portoghese, Umberto Fratino, Michele Vurro. A Bayesian vulnerability assessment tool for drinking water mains under extreme events. Natural Hazards. 2014; 74 (3):2193-2227.

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Alessandro Pagano; Raffaele Giordano; Ivan Portoghese; Umberto Fratino; Michele Vurro. 2014. "A Bayesian vulnerability assessment tool for drinking water mains under extreme events." Natural Hazards 74, no. 3: 2193-2227.

Proceedings article
Published: 27 June 2014 in Vulnerability, Uncertainty, and Risk
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The present work summarizes the theoretical development process and the preliminary results of a research activity oriented to the definition of a Decision Support System (DSS) to be used for managing drinking water systems exposed to different hazard classes. The core of such DSS is a probabilistic vulnerability assessment tool based on Bayesian Belief Networks, mainly developed integrating expert knowledge and literature information. This vulnerability assessment tool proved able to define a reliable map of vulnerability levels for complex and interconnected infrastructures, thus helping decision-makers in the selection of the optimal strategies to respond to emergencies. The DSS is based also on the implementation of hydraulic models, both for gravity and pressurized water mains, which should provide information regarding the changes in the hydraulic behavior of the network due to a specific event or an action. A case study is described, confirming the potentialities of the proposed tool.

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A. Pagano; R. Giordano; I. Portoghese; M. Vurro; Umberto Fratino. Emergency Management of Drinking Water Infrastructures Based on a Bayesian Decision Support System. Vulnerability, Uncertainty, and Risk 2014, 2012 -2021.

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A. Pagano, R. Giordano, I. Portoghese, M. Vurro, Umberto Fratino. Emergency Management of Drinking Water Infrastructures Based on a Bayesian Decision Support System. Vulnerability, Uncertainty, and Risk. 2014; ():2012-2021.

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A. Pagano; R. Giordano; I. Portoghese; M. Vurro; Umberto Fratino. 2014. "Emergency Management of Drinking Water Infrastructures Based on a Bayesian Decision Support System." Vulnerability, Uncertainty, and Risk , no. : 2012-2021.

Journal article
Published: 31 August 2013 in Environmental Modelling & Software
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In many arid and semi-arid regions agriculture is the main user of GW, causing problems with the quantity and quality of water, but there are few institutional policies and regulations governing sustainable GW exploitation. The authors suggest an integrated methodology for enabling local GW management, capable of combining the need for GW protection with socio-economic and behavioural determinants of GW use. In the proposed tool, integration is reinforced by the inclusion of multiple stakeholders, and the use of Bayesian Belief Networks (BBN) to simulate and explore these stakeholders' attitude to GW exploitation and their responses to the introduction of new protection policies. BBNs and hydrological system properties are integrated in a GIS-based decision support system – GeSAP – which can elaborate and analyse scenarios concerning the pressure on GW due to exploitation for irrigation, and the effectiveness of protection policies, taking into account the level of consensus. In addition, the GIS interface makes it possible to spatialize the information and to investigate model results. The paper presents the results of an experimental application of the GeSAP tool to support GW planning and management in the Apulia Region (Southern Italy). To evaluate the actual usability of the GeSAP tool, case study applications were performed involving the main experts in GW protection and the regional decision-makers. Results showed that GeSAP can simulate farmers' behaviour concerning the selection of water sources for irrigation, allowing evaluation of the effectiveness of a wide range of strategies which impact water demand and consumption.

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Ivan Portoghese; Daniela D'Agostino; Raffaele Giordano; Alessandra Scardigno; Ciro Apollonio; Michele Vurro. An integrated modelling tool to evaluate the acceptability of irrigation constraint measures for groundwater protection. Environmental Modelling & Software 2013, 46, 90 -103.

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Ivan Portoghese, Daniela D'Agostino, Raffaele Giordano, Alessandra Scardigno, Ciro Apollonio, Michele Vurro. An integrated modelling tool to evaluate the acceptability of irrigation constraint measures for groundwater protection. Environmental Modelling & Software. 2013; 46 ():90-103.

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Ivan Portoghese; Daniela D'Agostino; Raffaele Giordano; Alessandra Scardigno; Ciro Apollonio; Michele Vurro. 2013. "An integrated modelling tool to evaluate the acceptability of irrigation constraint measures for groundwater protection." Environmental Modelling & Software 46, no. : 90-103.