Stakeholder Conference EU Strategie for the Danube Region 21 April 2010 , Vienna

1. Stakeholder Conference EU Strategie for the Danube Region 21 April 2010 , Vienna International Cooperation within the Water Sector in the Danube Catchment Area Timeline I A W D Objectives and activities H. Sailer, CEO – Vienna Waterworks

3. 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 ha Main tributaries of the Danube: Tisza, Sava, Inn, Norava, Drava, Velika Morava, Iskar, Siret, Prut

4. MULTILATERAL COOPERATION • Capacity as water way • 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 • 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 • Main - Danube – Channel Inland Water Way from Rotterdam (North Sea) to the Black Sea

5. 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 PartiesAUSTRIA, 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

6. 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 • Internat. Association of Water Works in the Danube Catchement Area (IAWD)

7. EU 1990

8. EU 2007

9. WATER POLICY EUROPEAN UNION • Starting directives with focus on utilization • 1976 Recreational Water Directive • Drinking Water Directive • Reduction of pollution at the source • Urban Waste Water Treatement Directive • 1991 Nitrate Directive • 1998 New Drinking Water Directive • 2000 Water Framework Directive

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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)

14. Members of IAWD

15. DANUBE, MEUSE AND RHINE MEMORANDUM 2008 Publicated in cooperation between IAWR International Association of Waterworks in the Rhine Catchement Area and IAWD

16. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION