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

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