Acequia report : climate change, droughts and water uses : a LOGIC proposal for action

The Joint Research Centre (JRC) organised a workshop in Tenerife Island in 2017 called 'Resilient Tenerife', intended to explore participatory strategies to enhance climate resilience. An environmental expert from the Island Council of Gran Canaria was a member of one of the round tables and participated actively in various activities about the case study that had been developed in Tenerife (Hernandez et al., 2018a, 2018b; Cuevas et al., 2018). Owing to the success of this event, this expert from the Island Council of Gran Canaria communicated those results to his councillor. In January 2018, the President of the Island Council sent an official letter to the JRC to explore the possibility of carrying out a similar workshop in Gran Canaria with regard to the topic of climate change adaptation. The JRC accepted, and proposed the analysis of drought risks, since Gran Canaria Island had been affected by a severe drought the previous year, in 2017. Both organisations agreed and collaborated to develop the Acequia workshop called 'Climate change, droughts and water uses in Gran Canaria'. It took place in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria from 18 to 20 June 2018. This report is one of the outcomes of the workshop and has a twofold objective. Firstly, it summarises the main conclusions obtained in the Acequia workshop and, secondly, it also aims to move a step forward in proposing more detailed actions to tackle drought risks in Gran Canaria by means of co-creation practices. This report will be adopted by the Council of Gran Canaria, as well as the island's municipalities that have become signatories of the Covenant of Mayors. The report is structured as follows: Section 2 will present the case study, with a description of why Gran Canaria deserves to be analysed. Section 3 is devoted to presenting the methods applied in this 3-day workshop. Section 4 presents the results obtained, including a list of actions. Section 5 will discuss the results. Lastly, Section 6 concludes.