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:
Drava,

679,000 ha
Tisza, Sava, Inn, Norava,
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

into

1998 entering
force

11 Contracting Parties
AUSTRIA, BULGARIA, CZECH.REP., GERMANY, CROATIA, HUNGARY,
MOLDOVA, ROMANIA, SLOVAKIA,SLOVENIA and EU.

Objectives:
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 Donaulnder - 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
Viennas former Enviroment City Councillor and todays
Mayor Michael Hupl lent his support to the foundation of
the Association of Waterworks in the Danube Catchment
Area (IAWD) in Central and Eastern Europe

Goals
Basin for IAWD in the Danube River
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
Ingolstdter Kommunalbetriebe AR
SWU Energie GmbH
REWAG
Stadtwerke Passau GmbH
ZV WV Frnkischer 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
Sdbahngemeinden
WLV Nrdliches Burgenland
Linz Service GmbH
Geschftsbereich 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 Vizm Zrt.
Duna Menti Retionalis Vizm 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