.. _credits: *********************** Credits *********************** The plugin INOPIA has been created by the Water Research Institute (IRSA) of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) under the collaboration agreement with the Civil Protection Department of the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers. *Scientific leader* E. Romano *Desgin* E. Romano & N. Guyennon *Realization* N. Guyennon e A.B. Petrangeli *IT development* M. Ghetta (Faunalia) *Visual identity* D. Togninelli *With the participation of* E. Boscariol, N. Martinićć, A. Augustoni ''Celui qui s'attache à son oeuvre ne crée rien de durable'' Lao-tseu *[Stephen Mitchell]* .. contents:: :local: Preface ====================== The decision support tool called INOPIA QGIS was developed as part of the Collaboration Agreement (09/01/2019 rep.n.224, on 23/01/2019) between the Presidency of the Council of Ministers - Department of Civil Protection (DPC) and the Water Research Institute (IRSA) of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) for "The development of information systems for the announcement of water crises and the evaluation of measures aimed at emergency water supply". The starting point of the planned activities was INOPIA v1.2, the operational tool developed by IRSA-CNR as part of the Operational Agreement signed by IRSA-CNR and DPC on the 19th of December, 2006, following the Program Agreement Framework signed on the 20th of June, 2006. INOPIA allows an immediate assessment of the risk of failure to satisfy water demand (water shortage) caused by conditions of significant decrease in water resources following persistent precipitation anomalies. The subject of INOPIA's analysis is a water supply system consisting of a reservoir, natural or artificial, fed by one or more water surface whose flow has been previously aggregated and which supplies water to satisfy any demand variable over time (or more aggregate demands). INOPIA v1.2 was subsequently developed up to version v1.6 in order to incorporate some of the indications of the “Guidelines on Indicators of Drought and Water Scarcity to be used in the activities of the Permanent Observatories for water uses” (Mariani et al., 2018) drafted by the Higher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA) in collaboration with IRSA-CNR. The complete description of the INOPIA v1.6 operating tool is available on the INOPIA user manual (Romano and Guyennon, 2019) and on the scientific literature (Romano et al. 2017; Guyennon et al. 2017; Romano et al. 2018; Guyennon et al. as of 2018). INOPIA QGIS v2.2 extends the functionality of INOPIA v1.6 to multi-resource and multi-user systems allowing to implement the topological scheme of any water system that tap into different types of resources (surface reservoirs, underground reservoirs, springs, water purifiers, etc.) and feeds multiple resources. Disclaimer ================= INOPIA is an experimental tool aimed at announcing water crisis and it provides technical support for the decisions that need to be taken for the prevention of water crisis. Due to the experimental characteristic of the tool, no responsibility can be attributed to the Civil Protection Department and to the IRSA-CNR. Acknowledgment ================= This tool has been made with the financial assistance of the Civil Protection Department and the European Union. The content of the present documentation is the sole responsibility of IRSA-CNR and under no circumstances can be regarded as reflecting the position of the European Union and/or ADRION programme authorities. .. figure:: img/logo/loghifinepagina.png :align: center How to cite ================= Romano, E., Guyennon, N., Duro, A., Giordano, R., Petrangeli, A. B., Portoghese, I., & Salerno, F. (2018). A stakeholder oriented modelling framework for the early detection of shortage in water supply systems. Water, 10(6), 762.