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DRBM Plan

Basis

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Visions &Management Objectives

for all

Significant

Water Management Issues

…….lead all countries of the DRB towards a joint goal!

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Visions & Management Objectives

Anthropogenic barriers and habitat deficits do not hinder fish

migration and spawning anymore - sturgeon species and

specified other migratory species are able to access the

Danube River and relevant tributaries. Sturgeon species and

specified other migratory species are represented with self-

sustaining populations in the DRBD according to their

historical distribution.

Longitudinal Continuity

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Joint Programme of Measures

DRBM Plan & Joint Programme of Measures integrates all

components and addresses

current and future pressures from all SWMIs

national measures to achieve good ecological status

measure implementation on the basin wide scale to

achieve good ecological status

…….in line with EU WFD

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GWP CEE UNESCO - IHP

Navigation Commission

Black Sea Commission Die Donau –

Tourism Commission

VGB Power TechREC

Observers to the ICPDR

Europ. Angling Ass.

Friends of Nature

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DRBM Plan

Draft Key Results

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• First time and unique overview on basin-wide issues

• Transboundary WFD implementation for largest international river basin district

• Pressures/impacts for all SWMIs

• Basin-wide analysis on wastewater treatment

• Nutrient management on a large scale

• HYMO alterations – first time overview

• Protected areas inventory

• Large scale data collection based on DanubeGIS

DRBM PlanCurrent Draft 6.0

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• 738 Water bodies

• 728 River WBs / 61 River Danube River WBs

• 5 Lake WBs (one of it transitional)

• 2 Transitional WBs

• 4 Coastal WBs

• River WB network > 4,000 km2 = 20,882 rkm

• 11 transboundary groundwater bodies of

basin-wide importance

DRBM PlanBasic Results

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Organic Pollution

Reference Situation:

• 6,224 agglomerations > 2,000 PE in the DRB:

• 2,000 – 10,000 PE: 4,969 agglomerations

• > 10,000 PE: 1,255 agglomerations

• Many agglomerations without wastewater treatment or

sewerage connection

• No wastewater collection: more than 2,600 aggl.

= 11% of the generated load

Basic Facts

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Organic Pollution

• Baseline Scenario – UWWT 2015

• Includes measures that are legally required for EU MS

• Measures committed to be undertaken by Non EU MS

• Midterm Scenario

• BS-UWWT 2015 plus P removal for Non EU MS

(agglomerations > 10,000 PE)

• Vision Scenario goes far beyond other scenarios

• Full technical potential for WWT for organic and

nutrient removal applied (EU MS & Non EU MS)

Different Scenarios - UWWT

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Organic Pollution

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COD -emissions

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• BOD5 and COD emissions• Reference situation• Baseline Scenario-UWWT 2015• Midterm Scenario-UWWT• Vision Scenario-UWWT

BOD5 and COD emissions

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• Overall Baseline Scenario – Nutrients 2015

• Baseline Scenario Agriculture – Nutrients 2015

• Moderate agricultural development

• Agreed measures to reduce nutrients

• Future NOx deposition

• Agricultural Scenarios-Nutrient 2015 1 & 2

• Intensified agricultural development

• Phosphate Ban Scenario

• Considers P ban in laundry detergents and dishwashers

Different Scenarios - NutrientsNutrient Pollution

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Nutrient Pollution

N & P Emissions and LoadsReference – Baseline 2015

Nitrogen Phophorous

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• N emissions to surface waters in 2015: 12% lower.

• Load to the Black Sea: Below present state but still far

above (40%) that of the 1960‘s.

• Management objectives and EU WFD objectives not ensured by 2015

• P emissions to surface waters in 2015: 25 % lower

• Load to the Black Sea: Below present state but still

above (15%) that of the 1960‘s

• Management objective will not be achieved by 2015

and this is most likely also the case for the WFD environmental objectives

• Introduction of limitations on P in detergents is seen as a cost effective and

necessary measure

Nutrient Pollution

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• Based on EPER (EU MS) and ICPDR Emission Inventory data

• to be improved end 2009 (but not part of DRBM Plan)

• EU IPPC and other Directives key instruments for reduction

• Lack of knowledge on sources , pathways and losses of

hazardous substances on the basin-wide scale

• Estimation that management objectives and

EU WFD environmental objectives will not be achieved in 2015

• Further measures needed

• There is a need for more monitoring data and information on sources of

hazardous substances

Hazardous Substances Pollution

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Hydromorphological

Alterations4 HYMO Components

HydromorphologicalAlterations

River and Habitat Continuity Interruption

Disconnection of Adjacent Wetlands/Floodplains

Hydrological Alterations

Future Infrastructure Projects

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Hydromorphological

Alterations

River and Habitat Continuity Interruption

• 219 barriers passable for fish; 693 remain continuity interruptions in 2015

• Remaining continuity interruptions will be addressed by 2021/2027

• Achieve the WFD environmental objectives in an ecologically effective way: initial

measures should focus on the defined ecological priority river stretches.

• Perform feasibility study on the re-opening of the Iron Gate Dams

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Hydromorphological

Alterations

Disconnection Wetlands/Floodplains

• 578,115 ha of wetlands/floodplains with reconnection potential

• 60,450 ha reconnected and/or the hydrological regime improved by 2015

• Difficult to indicate currently the effect of measures on basin-wide scale

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Hydromorphological

AlterationsFuture Infrastructure Projects

• 115 Future Infrastructure Projects reported

• 19 of them in Danube River

• 49% dedicated to navigation; 43% to flood protection

• Rest: hydropower generation, water supply and other purposes

• 18 projects are subject to WFD Article 4(7) in EU MS

• 32 FIPs in Non EU MS

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Groundwater Quality & Quantity

GW Quality

• Findings show: nitrate contamination is key hindrance of achieving a good chemical

status

• Key Measures: Implementation EU Nitrates Directive and EU UWWT Directive

GW Quantity

• Some GW-Bodies show poor quantitative status

• Appropriate controls over the abstraction of fresh water and groundwater and

impoundement of surface waters (including abstraction registers)

must be put in place

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Water Status

Preliminary Results:Chemical Status - Rivers

• Significant data gaps still do exist

• Update/revision during second half of 2009

WB Number WB Length

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DRBM Plan

Next Steps

• Launch of the public consultation process after the 7th StWG Mtg

• Stakeholder Conference – Bratislava, 29 to 30 June 2009

- follow-up with a respective analysis of the PC process

• Improvement, screening and quality check of all draft

- DRBM Plan data and analyses in order to ensure and provide a

consistent final draft DRBM Plan for OM12

• Final data upload to Danube GIS by 14 September 2009

• Presentation of a final Draft DRBM Plan at OM 12

• Ministerial Meeting in February 2010