Targets

Why these 3 Rivers?
The three target rivers of this project are tributaries of the Danube River. While they display certain variations and differences from each other with relation to their surrounding landscapes, however, all three rivers represent the same vital importance to local people as well as to local animals and plants. They provide a livelihood and an important source of water. Their floodplains are managed and utilised in a similar way and therefore all three catchments also deal with similar water pollution problems.

All three rivers are suffering especially from agricultural, industrial and municipal activities for which humans are directly responsible. As a result, living conditions for both humans and nature deteriorate with the declining quality of local water. The greatest problem lies in the fact that, in the regions of these rivers, no proper infrastructure is in place to treat the products discharged into river lifelines. Additionally there is generally low public awareness on the issue of poor water quality and of its consequences on nature and human health. Local and regional authorities in each river basin do not see the reduction of pollution as their priority, since local people do not request it.

We use the water we pollute! The Morava, Mura and Ogosta Rivers are no exception. Once they become over-polluted, that means we will have cut our own lifeline. "Water is life"

Descriptions of river basins