Expert article
Project
GUARDIAN - Green Urban Actions for Resilient fire Defence of the Interface Area
Riba-roja de Túria, Spain
Sujet
Climate adaptation
Modifier 16 December 2020
by Elsa Pastor, UIA Expert
Unsupervised irrigation, how GUARDIAN scientists satisfy their thirst for innovation
Automatic preventive irrigation through water canyons is one of the several fire management actions that GUARDIAN is implementing at La Vallesa Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI). This is perhaps the most innovative aspect the project is working on as very few (inspiring!) examples exist worldwide. To our knowledge, GUARDIAN is the first attempt undertaken in Mediterranean ecosystems in which, capitalizing on surplus water from a waste water treatment plant, advanced water technology and infrastructure is put in place for wildfire management. Prof. del Campo and his team of scientists from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) have been in the field for weeks developing front-line research to give answers on where and when preventive irrigation is effective and how much water is needed to improve forest ecological conditions to face the impact of fires. This is a critical study, as its outcomes will be used for the design of unsupervised water irrigation patterns to be applied during the fire season in Riba-Roja and Paterna WUI. Let me guide you through this exciting process!
Climate adaptation
