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34 The News N° 25 - February 2015
”GEST’EAU”
Better understanding the ”SAGEs”
and Environments Contracts
Established in2002by the FrenchMinis-
tryof Ecologyand IOWater, ”Gest'eau” is
the national website dedicated toWater
Development and Management Plans
(SAGE) andEnvironments Contracts.
In 2014, it had more than 1.2 million
visitors.
Sharing the actions completed
Its objective is to foster the sharing of
knowledgebetween stakeholders invol-
ved in local integrated water manage-
ment processes.
For such a purpose, IOWater has develo-
ped the website since its creation: in
2014, this represents 164 descriptive sheets
of the ”SAGE” and 90 updated sheets on the
EnvironmentsContracts, 10newdocumentary
entries, 1,402 documentary notes entered,
12newsletters, including6with a testimony.
Monitoring the progress of integrated
watermanagement tools
If these tools arenowbetter known, stakehol-
ders in local water management are always
curious to know about their progress and
evolution. Therefore IOWater conducted a
study to:
l Identify a list of key figures for the
”SAGEs” and Environments Contracts,
l Describe the necessary data and formulas
to calculate these key figures,
l Develop an automatic calculation system.
www.gesteau.eaufrance.fr
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Décembre 2014
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Quelle stratégie pour lutter contre les espèces végétales
envahissantes dans lebassin versant de l’Azergues ?
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Le bassin de l’Azergues est confronté à des invasions d’espèces végétales. LeSyndicatmixte pour le
réaménagement de la plaine desChères lutte contre ces plantes depuis une quinzaine d’années dans
le cadre d’un contrat demilieu : quel bilan? quelles limites à la stratégie? et quelles actions pour les
annéesà venir?
Témoignage
PierreGADIOLET
Chargédemission du contrat de rivière et du PAPI dubassin versant
de l’Azergues
Quelles sont lesespèces végétalesquiprolifèrentdans lebassinde l’Azergues ?
L'Azergues est un affluent de rive droite de la Saône qui coule dans le département du Rhône et
draine la partie sud des monts du Beaujolais. Son bassin versant qui recouvre un territoire d’environ
500 km² et 260 km de cours d’eau, est depuis de longue date envahi par la renouée du Japon,
introduite en Europe comme plante ornementale. Cette espèce se retrouve un peu partout dans le
bassin versant mais est surtout omniprésente sur le cours aval de l’Azergues. Des fragments de
rhizomes contenus dans des remblais suffisent en effet à donner naissance à de nouveaux massifs
qui sontà leur tourautantde sourcesdedisséminationde laplante.
F
S
A glossary
on water
and aquatic
environments
Theglossaryonwater andaquatic envi-
ronments is a common tool for thepart-
ners of the French Water Information
System (WIS).
It results from the pooling of fifty glossaries
since 2010, in order to develop a semantic
datamodel.
It includes about 1,100 terms currently
available in English, French and
Spanish.
This is a ”collaborative”website, any user can
propose to amend it, delete some words or
add others. Proposals are evaluated by a
group of users, WIS partners. The website
content is entirely free and reusable.
It is also in line with the ”linked data” dyna-
mics, which aims to promote the publication
of structureddata on theWebusing semantic
technologies.
Current efforts are based on the linking of the
glossary termswithWikipedia articles (DBpe-
dia) and theGEMET thesaurus.
IOWater addedapproximately300Glos-
sary terms in 2014.
As IOWater was anxious to make it a more
interactive Glossary, more game-like inter-
faces, based on relationship graphs, were
established for the general public and, for
specialists, a SPARQL query interface (fr.wiki-
pedia. org / wiki / SPARQL) will allow explo-
ring, recoveringor viewing the contentsof the
glossary.
www.glossaire.eaufrance.fr
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