Management of rivers & wetlands at catchment scale in Europe

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1 Management of rivers & wetlands at catchment scale in Europe Bart Fokkens, RIZA, NL. Chairman ECRR 1

2 RIZA: National Institute for Inland Water Management and Waste Water Treatment NL Ministry of Transport Public Works and Watermanagement Wetland Restoration & Development 2

3 ECRR: EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR RIVER RESTORATION MISSION Enhance: Ecological river restoration throughout Europe. 3

4 VISION RR is an integral part of sustainable water management ECRR is connecting people and organizations working on river restoration (network / platform) ECRR supports development of good practices of river restoration 4

5 ESSENTIAL ACTIVITIES Promotion ECRR Network and functions Website: Newsletters (electronic) Conferences, study tours Workshops, training courses etc. External networking Polls the user to identify the function of the networks 5

6 NATIONAL CENTRES / NETWORKS United Kingdom Denmark Finland Spain Belgium Romania Russian Federation Italy The Netherlands Who is next? Network users: 200 organisations, institutions and individuals, alltogetheter thousands of people. 6

7 CONFERENCES 7

8 RIVER FUNCTIONS AND CONFLICTS 100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% East-E. West-E. North-E. South-E. nature fishery safety against flooding shipping water supply irrigation drinking water hydropower 8

9 NORTHERN EUROPE Boreal conditions Hydropower and dams Recreational use vs economic vs natural 9

10 EASTERN EUROPE Water and sediment pollution Flood protection Natural resources 10

11 WESTERN EUROPE Habitat degradation and fragmentation Flood protection Economics vs Nature 11

12 SOUTHERN EUROPE Hydropower and dams Water shortage Modification of discharge patterns Pollution 12

13 FRAMEWORK EU Water FD EU Bird/Habitat D EU Nitrate D EU Groundwater D CBD Ramsar Convention Helsinki Convention Specific Basin Conv. 13

14 WFD + NATURA 2000 WFD: Ecosystems water quality standards! Spatial coherence and integrity is missing Groundwater habitats ignored WFD is integrated towards the catchment Ramsar Convention is integrated towards the ecosystem 14

15 RESTORATION AND FLOOD PREVENTION (NL) 15

16 RIVER RHINE THE NETHERLANDS 16

17 RESTORED FLOODPLAIN 17

18 16 CM WATER LEVEL DECREASE (LOCALLY) 18

19 FLOODPLAIN RESTORATION (NL) 19

20 DUTCH NATIONAL PLAN River restoration Flood prevention Implementation EU WFD Increase nature Increase socio-economy Increase socio-culture 2.2 billion Ready

21 REFERENCE STUDY PECHORA RIVER (RF) 1500 km 12 salmonid species North Paleo-arctic flyway RIZA 21

22 RHINE DELTA / PECHORA DELTA 22

23 REFERENCE THE DANUBE DELTA (RO) ha Unesco Man and Biosphere Reserve Green Danube Corridor Floodprevention 23

24 DANUBE RIVER BASIN 24

25 LOWER VOLGA RIVER MORPHOLOGY (RF) 25

26 LOWER VOLGA 26

27 VOLGOGRAD RIVER MORPHOLOGY (RF) 27

28 CANALISED RIVER DINKEL (NL) 28

29 RESTORED RIVER DINKEL (NL) 29

30 DON RIVER (RF) 30

31 RESERVOIRS, ROSION, SPRINGFLOODS (RF) 31

32 SUSTAINABLE USE, THE ILOVLA RIVER (RF) 32

33 RESTORATION IN THE URALS (RF) water quality badly affected by mining agriculture metallurgical industries untreated waste water dams 33

34 NEW PERIOD NEW SYMBOL 34

35 POTENTIAL RETENTION AREA (NL) 35

36 RETENTION AREA (NL) 13 June 2006 LIFE3 Technical Conference, 36

37 RETENTION AREA LANDSCAPE 37

38 HABITAT DEVELOPMENT 38

39 COMORANT POPULATION DEVELOPMENT Oostvaarders plassen Naardermeer Lepelaarpla ssen De Ven Kreupel

40 POPULATION DEVELOPMENT/CONTROL? 40

41 SAVA RIVER BASIN RETENTION AREA & UNESCO HERITAGE SITE (HR) Transboundary co-operation International Co-operation 41

42 THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION 42