The Hydrographic Confederation of the Miño-Sil River (CHMS), an autonomous body under MITECO, has submitted a new application to the cross-border cooperation programme INTERREG VI-A POCTEP 2021-2027 with the RISC_PLUS project...
24 February, 2023 No comment
The Council of Ministers approved on 17 January two royal decrees that determine, on the one hand, the flood risk management plans (PGRI) of the intercommunity demarcations of the Western Cantabrian, Guadalquivir, Segura, Júcar and the Spanish part of the hydrographic demarcations of the Miño-Sil, Duero, Tajo, Guadiana, Ebro, Ceuta and Melilla, Guadalquivir, Segura, Júcar and of the Spanish part of the Miño-Sil, Duero, Tajo, Guadiana, Ebro, Ceuta and Melilla river basin districts, and, on the other hand, of the Galicia-Costa river basin district....
23 January, 2023 No comment
Spain and Portugal have agreed to reinforce the measures to be adopted to prevent and deal with water shortages in the river basins shared by both countries within the framework of the Albufeira Convention and after a year marked by the drought that has affected both countries....
09 January, 2023 No comment
La gestión de las inundaciones, tema principal de las jornadas FLOODS 2022...
12 December, 2022 No comment
La gestión de las inundaciones, tema principal de las jornadas FLOODS 2022...
28 November, 2022 No comment
Flood management was the main topic of the FLOODS 2022 conference...
06 October, 2022 No comment
Cumulative rainfall is 39% below the historical average....
03 October, 2022 No comment
The Hydrographic Confederation of Miño-Sil River (CHMS) brought together the partners in the European RISC Miño-Limia project...
22 September, 2022 No comment
After analysing the parameters, it is concluded that the Alto and Baixo Miño are in a normal situation; pre-alert in the Upper and Lower Sil basin; and alert in the Cabe and Limia river basins. ...
05 August, 2022 No comment
The current scenarios are normal in the Miño Alto and Baixo Miño, pre-alert in the Sil basin (upper and lower) and alert in the Cabe and Limia river basins....
08 July, 2022 No comment
The Hydrographic Confederation of the Miño-Sil River (CHMS) convened, by videoconference, the 27th meeting of the joint working group of the RISC_ML Project, in which a review was made of the different steps to be taken to finalise the financial circuit of the project....
20 May, 2022 No comment
Work awarded by the University of Vigo in the "IV edition of the Awards for research, transfer and scientific dissemination" of the Auga Campus, in the category of Greatest scientific contribution....
12 April, 2022 No comment
The document has been informed by the Governing Board and by the Committee of Competent Authorities, before being submitted to the Water Council, the highest participatory planning body...
10 April, 2022 No comment
The Migra Miño-Minho project, finalist of the Natura 2000 Award of the European Commission, Cross-border Cooperation category; selected among the 40 projects submitted, the jury recognizes the actions of conservation and awareness of habitats and species....
30 March, 2022 No comment
The investment exceeded 2.3 million euros. Execution of 8 SAIH stations in the Spanish part and 2 in the Portuguese part -level, flow and precipitation data-, and 5 new SAICA stations in the Spanish part, -temperature, turbidity, oxygen, conductivity, ph- , in real time. Analysis...
26 November, 2021 No comment
Under the title “WATER RESOURCES IN THE FACE OF CLIMATE CHANGE – EXTREME PHENOMENA” the CHMS explained the results achieved by the RISC_ML project after its 4 years. During the working day, held by telematic means, the main actions that have been implemented were presented,...
25 November, 2021 No comment
During the event, the final video of the actions carried out within the general framework of the project will be presented. In addition, there will be a reflection on the future challenges faced by the Minho-Limia Demarcation....
22 November, 2021 No comment
The session was held at the facilities of the Faculty of Engineering of Oporto (FEUP) and was attended by all the partners....
18 November, 2021 No comment
The objective of the symposium was to disseminate projects that have the Miño river basin as an area of intervention and to promote the debate on the management of natural resources and raise awareness of the importance of preserving biodiversity....
17 November, 2021 No comment
As in previous occasions, each of the partners has presented the progress in the different activities of the project, whose degree of execution is around 92%....
14 October, 2021 No comment
The public consultation period begins for six months, until 22 December 2021, of the proposed draft revision of the hydrological plan....
31 August, 2021 No comment
68 sections of Areas at Significant Risk of Flooding (ARPSI) have been identified, organised into 26 groupings, with a length of 597.42 kilometres....
25 August, 2021 No comment
As on previous occasions, each of the partners has presented the progress made in the different activities of the project, whose degree of execution is around 90%....
30 June, 2021 No comment
The work consisted of installing the necessary equipment for the real-time measurement and transmission of data on water level in the riverbed, temperature and rainfall....
11 June, 2021 No comment
Each of the partners has presented the progress achieved in the implementation of the various activities of the project, which has concluded that, both technically and financially, the degree of implementation reaches 88%....
16 April, 2021 No comment
Held on March 10 and 11, 2021, telematically, they have been given in collaboration with the Polytechnic University of Valencia....
12 March, 2021 No comment
In this meeting, the degree of technical and financial execution of the works has been reviewed and a calendar of actions to be developed in the coming months has been established....
18 February, 2021 No comment
The project budget exceeds 2,335,000 euros and has reached 80% completion....
21 January, 2021 No comment
On Wednesday, 18th November, the Entities that make up the RISC_ML project partnership, led by the Miño-Sil Hydrographic Confederation, met again by videoconference on the occasion of the 20th meeting of the Joint Working Group....
23 November, 2020 No comment
An agreement has been signed between the National Centre for Geographic Information and the Miño-Sil Hydrographic Confederation, in order to update and consolidate the Hydrographic Reference Geospatial Information....
13 November, 2020 No comment
On 30 October, the Miño-Sil Hydrographic Confederation (CHMS) completed the public consultation of the provisional Scheme of Important Issues (EpTI) for water management in the Spanish part of the Miño-Sil district....
09 November, 2020 No comment
El artículo muestra un sistema de alerta temprana ante inundaciones, diseñado para el río Miño, MIDAS (Miño RIver FlooD Alert System), que parte de datos de lluvia proporcionados por METEOGALICIA....
21 September, 2020 No comment
The entities that make up the RISC_ML project partnership, led by the Miño-Sil Hydrographic Confederation, met again by videoconference this Monday 14th September 2020 on the occasion of the nineteenth meeting of the Joint Working Group....
15 September, 2020 No comment
The entities that make up the RISC_ML project partnership, led by the Miño-Sil Hydrographic Confederation, met again by videoconference this Wednesday, July 29, 2020; this would be the eighteenth meeting of the Joint Working Group....
30 July, 2020 No comment
Technicians from the Centre for Hydrographic Studies of CEDEX, an autonomous body attached to the Ministry of Development and for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge and those of the Miño-Sil Hydrographic Confederation, held a meeting by videoconference last Friday, 10 July, to analyse the progress of the work included in the assignment on the impact of climate change on water resources within the framework of the RISC_ML Project....
13 July, 2020 No comment
The objective is to complete all the cartography and hydrography of the shared part and to achieve a better delimitation of all the channels of the international demarcation....
06 July, 2020 No comment
The entities that make up the RISC_ML project partnership, led by the Miño-Sil Hydrographic Confederation, met by videoconference on Thursday 18 June 2020 on the occasion of the 17th meeting of the Joint Working Group....
22 June, 2020 No comment
The Miño-Sil Hydrographic Confederation and CEDEX held a working meeting by videoconference to evaluate the work of the commission on the impact of climate change on water resources within the framework of the RISC_ML Project. ...
28 April, 2020 No comment
This morning, the Miño-Sil Hydrographic Confederation and the University of Vigo held a working meeting by videoconference between the members of the Water Campus and the Basin Organisation, within the framework of the RISC_ML project....
28 April, 2020 No comment
More than 3,600 interested parties, from various sectors and territories, are participating in the web conferences organized by the Directorate General for Water and the Hydrographic Confederations....
15 April, 2020 No comment
The EpTI is the second of the three stages involved in drawing up the new Hydrological Plan and contains the description and assessment of the main current and foreseeable water-related problems of the demarcation....
07 April, 2020 No comment
Register for the webinar to attend on April 7th from 11:30 to 12:30...
03 April, 2020 No comment
The University of Vigo has published an article on the new module of the IBER model that will allow the modelling of water quality in rivers and estuaries....
03 March, 2020 No comment
The partners in the RISC_ML project, led by the Miño-Sil Hydrographic Confederation, an autonomous body dependent on the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, held the sixteenth session of the Joint Working Group at the Campus da Auga- Universidade de Vigo in Ourense....
02 March, 2020 No comment
The Risc Miño Limia (RISC_ML) project will be presented at the Seminar "The challenges of Water Resources Monitoring and Management in a climate change scenario", to be held at the Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil (LNEC), in Lisbon, on March 20th....
02 March, 2020 No comment
At the headquarters of the Centre for Hydrographic Studies of CEDEX, in Madrid, a working meeting was held between the teams of the Centre and the CHMS within the framework of the RISC-ML Project for the advancement and development of activity 1, more specifically in...
30 January, 2020 No comment
The partnership of the RISC_ML project, led by the Miño-Sil Hydrographic Confederation, has held a working meeting at the headquarters of the ARH-NORTE HPA in which the main aspects to be taken into account, both at a technical and financial level, have been presented following the approval of the extension of the project for a further 12 months, which makes it possible for the project to last until 31 December 2020....
16 January, 2020 No comment
Coral Salvador, researcher at the Environmental Physics Laboratory EPHYSLAB of the University of Vigo, explains to Galicia Confidencial the results of the studies she led on the impact of this hydrological extreme on specific causes of mortality (natural, circulatory and respiratory) in the Iberian Peninsula, in the context of climate change....
13 December, 2019 No comment
The work team of the Centro de Estudios Hidrográficos, dependent on the Centro de Estudios y Experimentación de Obras Públicas (CEDEX), today held a meeting with the working group of the Risc M_L project of the Confederación Hidrográfica del Miño-Sil, Oficina de Planificación Hidrológica, to carry out the follow-up of the Commissioning of the CEDEX ....
12 December, 2019 No comment
The Hydrographic Confederations have warmed up the engines of the European Conference on Water and Innovation of the European Commission, with a parallel event held at the Palacio de Congresos in Zaragoza and dedicated to "Innovative actions of basin organisations"....
12 December, 2019 No comment
The Miño-Sil Hydrographic Confederation participates in the EU Water Innovation Conference 2019, organized by the European Commission, which is being held from 11 to 13 December in Zaragoza in the parallel event "Innovative actions of the Spanish Basin Organizations" with the paper "International cooperation experience to establish the bases for optimal water management"....
11 December, 2019 No comment
The Spanish Hydrographic Confederations are preparing for the challenges of the future with "innovative actions and techniques", as demonstrated this Wednesday in an event held at the Palacio de Congresos Expo in Zaragoza within the framework of the European Water Conference and the Commission, organised by the European Commission....
11 December, 2019 No comment
Today, the technicians of the CHMS of the APA and of the Universities of Vigo and Porto, held a meeting, at the headquarters of the CHMS Basin Control Centre, on "Hydrometeorological modelling for the prevention of extreme phenomena"....
05 December, 2019 No comment
The Miño-Sil Hydrographic Confederation (CHMS), an autonomous body dependent on the Ministry for Ecological Transition, has completed the works to install a new Automatic Water Quality System (SAICA) station on the Arenteiro river in O Carballiño (Ourense), within the framework of the Miño-Limia RISC Project....
18 November, 2019 No comment
The team of FEUP (Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto) participated in the eleventh world edition of EWRA, which united professionals around "Managing Water Resources for a Sustainable Future". It took place in Madrid, between 25 and 29 June 2019....
30 June, 2019 No comment
The works will be executed through a commission to CEDEX The planned investment amounts to €129,672 and the execution period is twelve months. Download pdf...
23 May, 2019 No comment
French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman (1886-1963), on 9 May 1950, gave a speech that is now historic; in that public call, he presented a proposal developed by him for the creation of an organised Europe. Schuman based his speech on the fact that the union of European countries was a prerequisite for the maintenance of peaceful relations....
06 May, 2019 No comment
The Consultative Council of the Agrupación de Cooperación Territorial del Río Miño (AECT Rio Minho), chaired by its director, Uxío Benítez, met last week at the Escuela Superior de Ciencias Empresariales de Valença to give its approval to the "Estrategia Río Miño Transfronterizo 2030". Up to 26 organisations from Galicia and Portugal, including chambers of commerce and business associations, participated in the meeting, which was also attended by the Secretary of State for Regional Development of the Portuguese country, María do Céu Albuquerque, representing the Portuguese Ministry of Planning....
12 April, 2019 No comment
The partners of the Risc_ML project, coordinated by the Miño-Sil Hydrographic Confederation, were present at the 14th edition of the National Congress on the Environment, CONAMA 2018, held from 26 to 29 November 2018 in Madrid....
29 November, 2018 No comment
On 16 October 2018, the National Water Council approved a favourable report on the proposal for a ministerial order for the approval of the special drought plans of the hydrographic districts under the jurisdiction of the General State Administration (Cantabrian, Miño-Sil, Duero, Guadiana, Guadalquivir, Tajo, Ceuta, Melilla, Segura, Júcar and Ebro). Once this process has been completed in the highest body for consultation and participation in the matter, the next step is to issue and publish the approval order....
16 October, 2018 No comment
On 5 and 6 July 2018, a meeting on flood risk management was held in Oporto at the headquarters of the Ordem dos Engenheiros Região Norte in collaboration with the other partner involved in this action, APA-ARH Norte....
06 July, 2018 No comment
Management and coordination will be improved in the international Miño and Limia river basins in the event of floods, droughts or resource scarcity. The MAPAMA, through the CHMS, the APA and the Universities of Vigo and Porto are the project partners. Download pdf...
11 May, 2018 No comment
The purpose of the revision of the plan is to improve the identification of drought and scarcity phenomena, the provision of short-term measures to mitigate their effects and the organization of institutional mechanisms to activate and deactivate their measures. Municipalities or urban agglomerations with more...
26 February, 2018 No comment
External audit service of the Risc Miño-Limia, Raia Termal and Migra Miño-Minho projects of the Operational Cooperation Programme Cross-border Spain-Portugal 2014-2020. Documents: Technical Specifications Schedule of Particular Administrative Clauses BOE Announcement Composition of the Contracting Committee Written record of the opering of the tenders received...
05 February, 2018 No comment
Technical assistance service for the management and coordination of the Cross-border Cooperation Projects (POCTEP), Raia Termal and Risc Miño-Limia, led by the Miño-Sil Hydrographic Confederation O.A. Documents: Technical Specifications Schedule of Particular Administrative Clauses BOE Announcement Composition of the Contracting Committee Record of the...
29 January, 2018 No comment
The purpose of the revision of the plan currently in force is to improve the identification of drought and scarcity phenomena, the provision of short-term measures to mitigate their effects and the organisation of institutional mechanisms for the activation and deactivation of the measures contained...
21 December, 2017 No comment
The basin organisation informs the municipalities of Ourense, Lugo, Ponteareas and Ponferrada, and the Louro Consortium onthe need to draw up or adapt the Municipal Emergency Plans for Drought. The CHMS has also invited them to participate in the revision of the Drought Plan for...
01 December, 2017 No comment
RISC MIÑO-LIMIA OPENING DAY Marcos Valcárcel “Cultural Centre” Progreso, 30- 32003–Ourense 21 November, 8.15 p.m. PROGRAMME 20:15 Inauguration and welcome to the assistants Francisco Marín Muñoz. President of CHMS. José Carlos Pimenta Machado. Director of the ARH North. Rodrigo Maia. Faculdade da Enghenaria do Porto....
22 November, 2017 No comment
The total budget amounts to €2,335,283 and the contribution from the European funding programme will be 75% of the total. The objective of this project is to design measures to mitigate the effects of extreme phenomena, floods and droughts in this international area. The Committee...
14 July, 2017 No comment
The president of the CHMS took the opportunity to thank the ARH Norte for its collaboration in the planning process of the Miño-Sil demarcation and in the joint presentation of European projects. The paper presented was on “Transboundary Cooperation in the field of water”. Download...
04 May, 2017 No comment
The objective of the project is to prepare the international basins of the Miño and Limia rivers for extreme events and to prevent them. The results will be a step towards a shared hydrological plan in the international basins of the Miño and Limia rivers....
29 September, 2016 No comment
“PRESENT AND FUTURE OF THE HYDROGRAPHIC CONFEDERATION OF MIÑO-SIL: THE HYDROLOGICAL PLAN 2015-2021 AND ITS PROGRAMME OF MEASUREMENTS” has been the title of the intervention and the colloquium during the business lunch, with more than 25 members of the Galician Business Circle, in the Vigo...
21 January, 2016 No comment
The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment, through the Miño-Sil Hydrographic Confederation, has signed a collaboration protocol with the Portuguese Environmental Agency and the Universities of Vigo and Porto. The results of the project will lead to progress towards a shared hydrological plan in the...
08 October, 2015 No comment
This will be done through the Spain-Portugal Cross-border Cooperation Program (POCTEP), with the objective of obtaining the necessary economic resources for the adequate protection and management of both basins. The new project, to be submitted in the next application, will be aimed at improving knowledge...
07 September, 2015 No comment
The meeting has served to reinforce the good understanding between Spain and Portugal in the management and protection of the water resources of the basins shared by both countries: the Miño-Sil, Duero, Tajo and Guadiana basins. The meeting addressed various aspects related to the joint...
18 December, 2014 No comment
The Council reports favourably on the documents constituting the “Management Plan of the Northern Hydrographic Regions (PGRH-northern)”. The President of the Miño-Sil Hydrographic Confederation, Francisco Marín, accompanied by the Head of the Hydrological Planning Office, José Alvarez, attended the meeting of the “Council of the Hydrographic Regions...
26 June, 2012 No comment