Development of lake Druksiai/Drisviaty Basin Management Program

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Development of lake Druksiai/Drisviaty Basin
Management Program

• Feasibility study

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Project Vision/ Goals

• To develop draft integrated water resource
  management plan and the pilot environmental
  information management system for
  Druksiai/Drisviaty lake as building blocks for
  development of the transboundary water resource
  management system

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Background information on the project development

• Project partners
• Belarus
• Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental
  Protection of the Republic of Belarus
• Institute of Zoology of Belarusian Academy of
  Sciences
• Lithuania
• Lithuanian Environmental Protection Agency, Basin
  Management and Pollution Prevention Department
• Institute of Ecology of Vilnius University

• The lake is the part of the National Park
  Braslavskie Ozera on the Belarusian side.
• The pollution of lake Druksiai/Drisviaty has been
  the issue of concern for Belarus and Lithuania
  for years.

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Background information on the project
development (2)

• Project needs
• cross-border assessment of environmental risks
• joint system of early warning and cohesive basin
  management plan.
• integration of the interests of all stakeholders
  to create preconditions for joint water resource
  management of lake Druksiai/Drisviaty.

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Aims

• conduct a cross-border assessment study
• develop the draft integrated water resources
  management plan
• develop a pilot environmental information
  management system (interactive database) for lake
  Druksiai/Drisviaty
• contribute to transparency of decision-making
• provide with training in water resource
  management, GIS, public relations and awareness
  raising
• build public awareness of the main issues related
  to environment and security in the area (in
  cooperation with the ENVSEC media and public
  participation component)

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Actives and project plan
Joint project planning, local consultations with stakeholders, data collection December - February
Cross-border assessment study March - April
Development of the draft integrated water resources management plan April - June
Development of the pilot environmental information management system (interactive database) June - September
Workshop on water resource management and GIS June
Workshop on public relations and awareness raising November
Testing and launch of the pilot electronic database September - November
Development of the draft project development proposal and reporting December
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Methodology

• Peipsi/Chudskoe Nenanus-Daugava
  Dniester
• lake basin

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Peipsi/Chudskoe lake basin

• The region
• 4th largest lake and the largest transboundary
  lake in Europe (since 2004)
• Major environmental problems
• Eutrophication
• Water polluttion (major sources - sewage and and
  oil shale mines, agriculture, point pollution)
• Overfishing

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Peipsi/Chudskoe lake basin
1994 Treaty on the conserv tion and use of
fishing stocks in Lake Peipsi, Lake Lämmijärv and
Lake Pihkva 1996 Agreement on Co-operation in
the field of Environment 1997 Agreement on
Co-operation in the field of Protection and
Sustainable Use of Transboundary Watercourses

• Two Joint Commissions
• on Fishery
• on Transboundary Waters

2001 2004 Development and use of transboundary
GIS
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Peipsi/Chudskoe lake basin

• Major achievements
• Joint monitoring of the transboundary waters
  under the Commissions, plus international
  research and applied projects.
• Joint Estonian-Russian Transboundary Water
  Management Programme for the Lake Peipsi/Chudskoe
  basin developed under h UNDP/GEF project.
• Annual Peipsi Forums as stallholders meetings for
  supporting cooperation and contributing to the
  regional activities.
• Regular cooperation among different bodies and
  organizations both under state programs and
  international projects aimed at different topics
  tourism. Regional development, water protection,
  biodiversity etc.

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What can Internet-based GIS provide?

• GIS may facilitate assessment of past, current
  and future development in the drainage basin and
  become the basis for a common data and
  information base used for various river basin
  management applications, e.g.
• Flood forecasting
• Characterisation
• Modelling of transport paths of pollutants
• Source apportionment
• Optimisation of pollution abatement strategies
• Scenario based trend analysis
• Building a common transboundary river basin
  identity through making maps and joint analysis
• The Internet-based GIS is the most appropriate
  environmental information handling, production
  and dissemination tool for river basins including
  water bodies
• Establishment of an institutional solution for
  the continued updating and management of the
  river basin information infrastructure and
  systems.
• Implementation of Water Framework Directive.