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Stakeholder Conference Stakeholder Conference
EU Strategie for the Danube RegionEU Strategie for the Danube Region
21 April 2010 , Vienna21 April 2010 , Vienna
International Cooperation International Cooperation within the Water Sector in the within the Water Sector in the
Danube Catchment AreaDanube Catchment Area
TimelineTimeline
I A W DI A W D
Objectives and activitiesObjectives and activities
H. Sailer, CEO – Vienna WaterworksH. Sailer, CEO – Vienna Waterworks
The Danube River Basin
Length of the Danube: 2,780 km
Navigable length of the Danube: 2,412 km
Annual water discharge 202 bn m3 into the Black Sea: (6,460 m3/sec average)
Size of the basin: 801,463 km2 (almost 10% of continental
Europe)
Inhabitants: 81 million
Number of states: 18
Size of the Danube Delta: 679,000 haMain tributaries of the Danube: Tisza, Sava, Inn, Norava, Drava,
Velika Morava, Iskar, Siret, Prut
MULTILATERAL COOPERATIONMULTILATERAL COOPERATION
Capacity as water way
1815 Vienna congress, Request for free navigation1856 At the end of the Crimean War the Congress
of Paris appointed a commission to clear the delta of obstructions and to safeguard free navigation
1948 Belgrade Convention
Legal instrument to guarantee free navigation on the navigable stretch of the Danube in accordance with the interests and sovereign rights of the contracting parties
1992 Main - Danube – Channel Inland Water Way from Rotterdam (North Sea) to the Black Sea
DANUBE RIVER PROTECTION DANUBE RIVER PROTECTION CONVENTIONCONVENTION
ICPDAICPDAImplementation through the International Commission of the Danube River (ICPDA) Secrateriat in Vienna
1994 signed in Sofia 1998 entering into force11 Contracting PartiesAUSTRIA, BULGARIA, CZECH.REP., GERMANY, CROATIA, HUNGARY, MOLDOVA, ROMANIA, SLOVAKIA,SLOVENIA and EU.
ObjectivesObjectives:
- Providing a sustainable water management
- Cooperation on fundamental water management issues
- Combating water pollution
- Maintaining and improving the status of aquatic ecosystemes
INTERNATIONAL Cooperation inINTERNATIONAL Cooperation in
WATER ManagementWATER Management
1956 Internat. Association on Danube Research - IADExchange of experience and views across the
„IronCurtain“
1965 Internat. Hydrological decade initiated by UNESCO/WMO, covering issues of hydrology flood forecasts,riverine regime etc.
1990 ARGE Donauländer - Cooperation between regions
1993 Internat. Association of Water Works in the Danube Catchement Area (IAWD)
EU 1990
EU 2007
WATER POLICY EUROPEAN UNION
Starting directives with focus on utilization
1976 Recreational Water Directive
1980 Drinking Water Directive
Reduction of pollution at the source
1991Urban Waste Water Treatement Directive
1991 Nitrate Directive
1998 New Drinking Water Directive
2000 Water Framework Directive
The WFD is the most substantial piece of water legislation ever produced by the European Commission, and will provide the major driver for achieving sustainable management of water in the Member States of EU for many years to come.
It requires that all inland and coastal waters within defined river basin districts must reach at least good status by 2015 and defines how this should be achieved through the establishment of environmental objectives and ecological targets for surface waters.
The result will be a healthy water environment achieved by taking due account of environmental, economic and social considerations.
OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES
Europeanwide consonance in water protection
Criterias of Quality
Monitoring
Measures acc. BAT and BEP
Transparency and civil participation
Water Framework Directive as stimulating economic factor
Costcovering and –transparency
Strengthening of structures and competition
19931993Vienna’s former Enviroment City Councillor and today’s Vienna’s former Enviroment City Councillor and today’s
Mayor Michael Häupl lent his support to the foundation of Mayor Michael Häupl lent his support to the foundation of the Association of Waterworks in the Danube Catchment the Association of Waterworks in the Danube Catchment
Area (IAWD) in Central and Eastern EuropeArea (IAWD) in Central and Eastern Europe
Goals for IAWD in the Danube River Basin Representing the interests of all drinking water supply companies in the Danube catchment area
Continue with the IAWD monitoring and investigation program to safeguard water quality as well as evaluating and publishing the results thus obtained
Co-operating closely with other organizations pursuing similar objectives such as ICPDR
Co-organisational partner of the International Water Association (e.g. Cooorganiser World Water Congress in Vienna 2008 with special focus Danube)
Members of IAWDSwitzerlandGemeinde St. Moritz – Wasserversorgung
Czech RepublicBrnenske vodarny a kanalizace, a.s.
Bosnia-HerzegovinaVodovod i kanalizacija Sarajevo
GermanyZweckverband Bodensee – WassersorgungIngolstädter Kommunalbetriebe AöRSWU Energie GmbHREWAGStadtwerke Passau GmbHZV WV Fränkischer Wirtschaftsraum
SlowakiaVodarne a kanalizace Bratislava s.p.Zapadoslovenske Vodarne a Kanalizacie, s.p.
RomaniaSC Apa Nova Bucuresti
AustriaWiener Wasserwerkeevn wasser gmbHWLV der Triestingtal- und SüdbahngemeindenWLV Nördliches BurgenlandLinz Service GmbH – Geschäftsbereich WasserGrazer Stadtwerke AG
CroatiaVodoopskrba i Odvodnja
YugoslaviaJKP BeogradskiJKP Vodovod i kanalizacija Novi SadVodovod SuboticaVodovod ZrenjaninJavno Komunalno Preduzece Za
HungaryBudapester Wasserwerke AGDunantuli Regionalis Vizmü Zrt.Duna Menti Retionalis Vizmü Zrt.
SloveniaMariborski Vodovod d.d
DANUBE, MEUSE AND RHINE MEMORANDUM
2008
Publicated in cooperation
between
IAWRInternational Association of
Waterworks in the Rhine Catchement Area
and
IAWD
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION