Partner 7: CETaqua

CETaqua - Centro Tecnólogico del Agua, is a non-profit private foundation. The centre is an agent and an integrator organism of the research, the technology development and the innovation in the field of water - especially in the urban cycle - with national and international vocation. The founding members are: AGBAR - Societat General d’Aigües de Barcelona (private water cycle Company in Spain has more than a hundred years of experience); UPC - Technical University of Catalonia (public University of recognized prestige specialized in the engineering, sciences and architecture areas); and CSIC - Spanish National Research Council (the major public research organism in Spain, embraces all the fields of the knowledge, since the basic research to the most advanced technological developments). CETaqua is constituted from the necessity of having a reference center in the water field and profits from the interaction of the founding partners, which allows covering the most basic investigation field of research and giving to the center an ample and integrated vision of the national territory. The activity of CETaqua can be summarized in: development of R&D projects in the field of the integral water cycle, and appliance of the R&D results (results transferring and scientific diffusion). The R&D project areas of the center are: new water resources, impact of global change in water resources, asset management and water quality.

Isabel Escaler (born in 1972) is civil engineer, specialized in hydraulics and environment, with 10 years experience in drainage systems within companies of the AGBAR group, working with real time flood forecasting systems as a practitioner, and now as responsible for the area of global change in CETaqua. She has participated in several projects related with floods as end-user.

Selected Publications

2001.    Ballester, L., I. Escaler, and C. Martin, 2001: The remote control system of the stormwater tanks in Barcelona. In: Proceedings of Novatech, Lyon (France), GRAIE, 3.4.4.
2001.    Escaler, I., J. Marti, M. Salamero, and C. Martin, 2001: Quasi-global regulation of stormwater detention tanks in the sewer system of Barcelona. In: Proceedings of Novatech, Lyon (France), GRAIE, 3.4.3.
2001.    Corral, C., D. Sempere-Torres, M. Berenguer, and I. Escaler, 2001: A distributed rainfall runoff model integrated in an operational hydrometereological forecasting system in Catalonia based in weather radar. In: Proceedings of 5th International Symposium on Hydrological Applications of Weather Radar, Disaster Prevention Research Institute., 407-412.
2002.    Escaler, I., G. Ramon, M. Salamero, and J. Marti, 2002: El sistema de Alerta del Parque Fluvial del Río Besós (Fase I). In: Proceedings of I Jornadas sobre sistemas de ayuda a la decisión ante problemas hidráulicos e hidrológicos en tiempo real, Madrid (Spain), CEH - CEDEX.
2002.    Cembrano, G., I. Escaler, V. Puig, J. Quevedo, M. Salamero, and J. Figueras, 2002: Real Time Optimization of the No Flooding/ No CSO Binomium: The Barcelona Sewer Network Case. In: Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Urban Drainage, Portland, Oregon, (USA), B04.4.
2002.    Corral, C., M. Berenguer, D. Sempere-Torres, and I. Escaler, 2002: Evaluation of a conceptual distributed rainfall-runoff model in the BesÚs catchment in Catalunya using radar information. In: Proceedings of 2nd European Conference on Radar in Meteorology (ERAD), Delft, 409-415.
2004.    Alsius, A., I. Escaler, J. Martí, J. Verdejo, and G. Ramón, 2004: Local control design for a CSO detention tank. In: Proceedings of Novatech, Lyon (France), 3.7.1.
2004.    Escaler, I., J. López, J. Verdejo, and G. Ramon, 2004: El sistema de alerta hidrológica del parque fluvial del Río Besós (Fase II). In: Proceedings of II Jornadas sobre sistemas de ayuda a la decisión ante problemas hidráulicos e hidrológicos en tiempo real, Madrid (Spain), CEH-CEDEX, 24.
2005.    Suñer, D., I. Escaler, P. Malgrat, and F. Rivero, 2005: Protección racional de la calidad de las aguas costeras mediante la gestión integrada y en tiempo real del medio hídrico. Tecnología del Agua, 25 - 261, 62-67.
2007.    Custodio, E., M. Manzano, and I. Escaler, 2007: Aquifer recharge and global change: application to Doñana. Climate change in Andalusia: trends and environmental consequences, Consejería de Medio Ambiente. Junta de Andalucía, 119-140.