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Stakeholder Conference
EU Strategie for the Danube Region
21 April 2010 , Vienna
International Cooperation within
the Water Sector in the Danube
Catchment Area
Timeline
IAWD
Objectives and activities
H. 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
into the Black Sea:
202 bn m3
(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:
Main tributaries of the Danube:
679,000 ha
Tisza, Sava, Inn, Norava, Drava,
Velika Morava, Iskar, Siret, Prut
MULTILATERAL COOPERATION
Capacity as water way
1815 Vienna congress, Request for free navigation
1856 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 CONVENTION
ICPDA
Implementation through the International Commission of the Danube
River (ICPDA) Secrateriat in Vienna
1994 signed in Sofia
1998 entering into
force
11 Contracting Parties
AUSTRIA, BULGARIA, CZECH.REP., GERMANY, CROATIA, HUNGARY, MOLDOVA,
ROMANIA, SLOVAKIA,SLOVENIA and EU.
Objectives:
- Providing a sustainable water management
- Cooperation on fundamental water management issues
- Combating water pollution
- Maintaining and improving the status of aquatic
ecosystemes
INTERNATIONAL Cooperation in
WATER Management
1956 Internat. Association on Danube Research - IAD
Exchange of experience and views across the „Iron
Curtain“
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
1993
Vienna’s former Enviroment City Councillor and today’s Mayor
Michael Häupl lent his support to the foundation of the Association
of Waterworks in the Danube Catchment Area (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 IAWD
Switzerland
Gemeinde St. Moritz – Wasserversorgung
Czech Republic
Brnenske vodarny a kanalizace, a.s.
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Vodovod i kanalizacija Sarajevo
Germany
Zweckverband Bodensee –
Wassersorgung
Ingolstädter Kommunalbetriebe AöR
SWU Energie GmbH
REWAG
Stadtwerke Passau GmbH
ZV WV Fränkischer Wirtschaftsraum
Slowakia
Vodarne a kanalizace Bratislava s.p.
Zapadoslovenske Vodarne a
Kanalizacie, s.p.
Romania
SC Apa Nova Bucuresti
Austria
Wiener Wasserwerke
evn wasser gmbH
WLV der Triestingtal- und
Südbahngemeinden
WLV Nördliches Burgenland
Linz Service GmbH – Geschäftsbereich
Wasser
Grazer Stadtwerke AG
Croatia
Vodoopskrba i Odvodnja
Yugoslavia
JKP Beogradski
JKP Vodovod i kanalizacija Novi Sad
Vodovod Subotica
Vodovod Zrenjanin
Javno Komunalno Preduzece Za
Hungary
Budapester Wasserwerke AG
Dunantuli Regionalis Vizmü Zrt.
Duna Menti Retionalis Vizmü Zrt.
Slovenia
Mariborski Vodovod d.d
DANUBE, MEUSE AND
RHINE MEMORANDUM
2008
Publicated in cooperation
between
IAWR
International Association of
Waterworks in the Rhine
Catchement Area
and
IAWD
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION