Search Results
-
Measures for ensuring fish migration at transverse structures (1.03 MB)
Workshop on River and Habitat Continuity
Vienna, 4/5 September 2012. The ICPDR held a workshop on river and habitat continuity to support the ongoing developments in the implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive and related legislation in the Danube River Basin with regard to addressing river and habitat continuity.
Accident at Ajka alumnia plant
Kolotar, 4 October 2010. The acute toxic risk deriving from the heavy metals in the red sludge is rather low, as their concentrations are rather low. However, the chronic toxicity threat is high.
Danger heading downstream: the Accident Emergency Warning System in action
-
DBA 2004 - Map 14: Hydromorphological Alterations (3.19 MB)
Risk of failure to reach the Environmental Objectives - Hydromorphological Alterations Layers: Surface Water Bodies (Water body at risk, Water body possibly at risk, Water body not at risk) -
DBA 2004 - Map 10: Heavily Modified Surface Waters (3.15 MB)
Important Heavily Modified Surface Waters (provisional identification) Layers: Transitional waters, Coastal waters, Heavily modified surface waters (aggregated water bodies according to aggreed... -
DBA 2004 - Map 7: Major Hydraulic Structures (1.35 MB)
Major Hydraulic Structures Layers: Hydraulic structures (mainly dams and weirs), Harbours, Waterways ECE I-IV, Waterways ECE V-VII, Free flowing river stretch, Strongly regulated river stretch... AEWS - Accident Emergency Warning System
The Accident Emergency Warning System (AEWS) of the Danube River Basin is activated whenever there is a risk of transboundary water pollution, or threshold danger levels of certain hazardous substances are exceeded.
Wetlands
The floodplains and wetlands of the Danube basin are uniquely valuable ecosystems in global terms, although few areas are still in their natural or near-natural state.
Dams & Structures
Since the 16th century, people have been changing the natural course of the rivers in the Danube River Basin, mainly for flood defence, hydropower generation and navigation. All these changes affect the ecological quality of the rivers. Changes in the depth or width of a river typically reduce flow rates, interrupting natural sediment transportation as well as the migration routes of animals.