Nutrient Reduction Files

Folder containing papers and presentations from the Moldova Conference on Nutrient Reduction

Experience of the North Sea in the OSPAR context

Gert Verreet gert.verreet@ec.europa.eu With twenty years of involvement of marine eutrophication related issues in the North-East Atlantic, the author gives an overview of how eutrophication combating was addressed in the North Sea context. North Sea eutrophication has proven to be a problem that isn’t easily resolved, among other things because nutrient losses from agriculture, which contribute significantly to this phenomenon, are more difficult to control than point sources and there is a longer than expected time lag from decision, to implementation, to results in the sea. The North Sea drains a densely populated area with intensive agriculture. When the eutrophication problem received political attention in the 1980's, the North Sea Conference framework provided a forum for a first round of principal policy decisions. These were taken up in a EU context in the early 1990's, giving rise to specific EC directives. The international monitoring and assessment of the evolution of the eutrophication status of the North Sea then started in the context of the OSPAR Convention. The technical and scientific infrastructure to monitor relevant aspects was developed in the period since 1987, with gradual improvements to the international arrangements in place. Formal monitoring of implementation of relevant policy became mostly the remit of the EU, with periodic reporting to the North Sea Conference and OSPAR fora. The development of the toolkit is reviewed, and some monitoring and assessment results are discussed. With the advent of the Water Framework Directive, most EU Member States attention has now turned to achieving the objectives of that directive including 'good ecological status' by 2015. This integrated water policy approach is, among other things, providing even more detailed guidance on the assessment of eutrophication and the need to take measures at source for different sectors, including agriculture in the context of basin management plans. The European Commission uses its various powers to induce Member States to comply with the environmental legislation as many Member States experience an implementation gap. In the meantime, in recent years little new international legislative measures are taken to address nutrients from agriculture. There is insufficient knowledge of the question whether existing policy implementation will suffice to resolve the eutrophication problems of the North Sea.

Nutrient management in Danube river basin for eutrophication control in Western Black Sea Coastal Area

Kishnev, Oct. 2006 H. Kroiss, M. Zessner, Ch. Lampert Institute for Water Quality and Waste Management, Vienna University of Technology

The Danube - Black Sea Strategic Partnership Program: Progress, Issues and Ways Forward

Jitendra Srivastava & Meeta Sehgal Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Unit Europe and Central Asia Region, World Bank U.S.A. Moldova, October 2006

Use of Best Management Practice Efficiency Estimates in Multi-Jurisdictional Water Quality Planning for the Chesapeake Bay

Thomas W. Simpson, University of Maryland and The World Bank Group Introduction The Chesapeake Bay is the largest and, historically, most productive estuary in the United States of America (USA). The Bay is long and narrow being about 250 km long and 25 to 50 km wide. The estuary is very shallow with an average depth of only 7 m, but it contains a narrow, deep trench up to 60 m deep that is the drowned river valley of the Susquehanna River. What is remarkable about the Chesapeake Bay is the very large size of its watershed to its relatively small water volume. The watershed is approximately 100,000 km square in size (Fig. 1). The Bay has a watershed area to water volume ratio of about 2400:1, which is six times greater than the estuary with the next largest watershed area to water volume ratio, The Bay of Finland.

Moldova Nutrient REduction Conference Participant List

Participants at the Black Sea – Danube Regional Conference on Nutrient Pollution Control in Chisinau, Moldova – October 2006

Environmental Management System - Nutrient Management at Farm Level

Mr Niklas Bergman MSc Agriculture Project Manager, Scanagri Sweden AB Working in projects in Russia and the Baltic States as Expert and Team Leader Presented at the Black Sea – Danube Regional Conference on Nutrient Pollution Control in Chisinau, Moldova – October 2006

Evolution of M&E from TDA/SAP to Current Country Strategies: A Science and Policy Perspective

Laurence Mee -Delivering the ecosystem approach: adaptive management and the TDA/SAP process -Scientific challenges and uncertainties for nutrient reduction -From outputs to outcomes, how do we measure success? Presented at the Black Sea – Danube Regional Conference on Nutrient Pollution Control in Chisinau, Moldova – October 2006

Alocuţiunea dlui prim ministru Vasile Tarlev la deschidere

Speech read at the Black Sea – Danube Regional Conference on Nutrient Pollution Control in Chisinau, Moldova – October 2006 In Romanian

Anatolia Watershed Rehabilitation Project Presentation

The objective of the project is to support sustainable natural resource management and poverty reduction in degraded watersheds in the 2 river basins and the Black Sea Coast. Halil AGAH Senior Rural Development Specialist Presented at the Black Sea – Danube Regional Conference on Nutrient Pollution Control in Chisinau, Moldova – October 2006

Presentation: Bulgaria Wetlands Restoration and Pollution Reduction Project

Christina Nikolova Project coordination unit Local officer “Kalimok-Brushlen” Protected site Presented at the Black Sea – Danube Regional Conference on Nutrient Pollution Control in Chisinau, Moldova – October 2006

Source Apportionment of Nitrogen and Phosphorous Inputs into the Aquatic Environment - An EEA Assessment

Presented by János Fehér h. Associate Professor Chairman & General Director of VITUKI CONSULT Zrt on behalf of European Environmental Agency’s European Topic Centre on Water Presented at the Black Sea – Danube Regional Conference on Nutrient Pollution Control in Chisinau, Moldova – October 2006

Anaerobic Digestion Technologies for Energy Production and Pollution Control

Kurt F. Roos AgSTAR Program U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Introduction Environmental concerns Pollution Prevention Options Anaerobic Digesters What are anaerobic digesters How do they work Technology types, project approaches, and technology choice Environmental Performance Presented at the Black Sea – Danube Regional Conference on Nutrient Pollution Control in Chisinau, Moldova – October 2006

Componentul 1: Sub-Componentul Sistemul de Monitorizare a Calităţii Apei

Presentation on Component 1 of the Moldova Agricultural Pollution Control Project in Romanian. Presented at the Black Sea – Danube Regional Conference on Nutrient Pollution Control in Chisinau, Moldova – October 2006

Mediterranean Replication Strategy Outline (Guglielmi)

Paolo Guglielmi Mediterranean Sea Project INFO-Regional Activity Center Presented at the Black Sea – Danube Regional Conference on Nutrient Pollution Control in Chisinau, Moldova – October 2006

East Asian Seas Strategic Partnership Arrangements (Ross)

Presented at the Black Sea – Danube Regional Conference on Nutrient Pollution Control in Chisinau, Moldova – October 2006

Georgia ARET Project: Environment Pollution Control Program

Presentation on activities in the Black Sea Catchment of Georgia. Presented at the Black Sea – Danube Regional Conference on Nutrient Pollution Control in Chisinau, Moldova – October 2006

$ and Sense of Non-point Source Water Pollution Monitoring in Central and Eastern Europe, and USAID/ Moldova Case Study (Latif)

This paper presents the pollution monitoring approach and selected results from USAID Global Environmental Facility (GEF) Danube Pollution Reduction Program in Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania; and discusses a case study on non-point source pollution monitoring in Moldova associated with USAID and non-USAID programs. The USAID/GEF Danube project in three key tributaries of the Danube River was meant to improve water quality and reduce transboundary pollution coming from Slovakia and Romania into Hungary and ultimately to the Black Sea. The program’s intent was to serve as one implementation model for similar environmental improvement activities (Ref. 1and 2) to be undertaken in 17 countries of the Danube River Basin as part of the Environmental Action Plan (EAP) and Strategic Action Plan (SAP). The intent of Moldova case study on non- point source pollution monitoring also has a strong potential of replication in Central and Eastern Europe. Paper presented at the Black Sea – Danube Regional Conference on Nutrient Pollution Control in Chisinau, Moldova – October 2006

Danube-Black Sea Regional Projects – Catalysts for Nutrient Reduction (Zavadsky)

Experiences with Setting Targets, Measuring Compliance and Results, and Scaling up Achievements in Nutrient Reduction Presented at the Black Sea – Danube Regional Conference on Nutrient Pollution Control in Chisinau, Moldova – October 2006

Experiences in Nutrient Pollution Control Planning, Implementation and Evaluation in the Chesapeake Bay Basin with Comparisons to the Great Lakes Program (Simpson)

Thomas Simpson, University of Maryland and The World Bank Group Presented at the Black Sea – Danube Regional Conference on Nutrient Pollution Control in Chisinau, Moldova – October 2006

Future of the Baltic Sea Regional Project

BSRP Kaspars Zurins, Niclas Bergman, Johanness Delstra, Viesturs Jansons Presented at the Black Sea – Danube Regional Conference on Nutrient Pollution Control in Chisinau, Moldova – October 2006

Mountains of the World – Water Towers for the 21st Century (Messerli, et.al)

Bruno Messerli Institute of Geography, University of Bern Hallerstrasse 12, 3012 Bern Switzerland Abstract Mountain and Hydrology Research has a long tradition, but only the Rio Conference 1992 created a real breakthrough for a new awareness about the mountains of the world and their natural and human resources. In the years 1997 and 1998 the mountains as water towers for a thirsty planet got a special interest of the UN institutions, which led not only to the International Year of Mountains 2002 and the International Year of Freshwater 2003, but also to a better cooperation between science and policy. The particular hydrological characteristics of mountains areas are manifested by disproportionately large discharge, compared to the surrounding lowlands. Mountains account for 20-50% of total discharge in humid temperate regions, while in semi-arid and arid areas, the contribution of mountains to total discharge are 50 – 90 % with extremes of over 90 % (e.g. Nile, Colorado, Orange, Syr Daria, Amu Daria, Rio Negro etc.). Moreover , discharge from mountainous areas is highly reliable and causes significant reduction of the coefficient of variation of total discharge. These findings were quantified and used to elaborate an overall assessment of the hydrological significance of mountain areas. The dryer the lowland, the greater the importance of more humid mountain areas. Locally and regionally differentiated changes in temperature, precipitation, snow-cover and glacier storage are likely to alter discharge from mountain-dominated territories with respect to timing, volume and variability, and will influence runoff characteristics in lowlands. Catchments which are dominated by snow are particularly sensitive to climate change, and will be most affected by shifts in discharge patterns. Increasing demands on limited water resources ensure that mountains water resources will play an increasing important role in the 21st century. But we need more and better data, especially for the mountains of the tropics and subtropics, and this means for the developing world, where water scarcity means immediately food shortage. The scientific community has the responsibility to analyse the consequences and complex interactions of climate, water and land-use changes, but also of growing population and its impact on watershed management and agriculture-forestry-policy, in order to develop adequate long-term strategies on water resources management in the mountains and highlands for the surrounding lowlands.

Experience of the North Sea in the OSPAR Context (Verreet)

Gert Verreet gert.verreet@ec.europa.eu Currently Chairman of the OSPAR Eutrophication Committee European Commission DG Environment Unit D.2 Protection of Water and Marine Environment Contents  History of treatment of eutrophication in North Sea Conference and OSPAR (~ 1987 – 2006)  EU: WFD and nitrates directives  Concluding remarks

Monitoring of the Agricultural Run-off in Latvia (1994-2005)

Viesturs Jansons Professor, Head of Department of Environmental Engineering and Water Management. Latvia University of Agriculture, e-mail viesturs.jansons@llu.lv

How Control of Nutrient Pollution Results Could be Measured in a Program That Has a National Dimension (Romania) (Nicolau)

Stefan Nicolau Romania Agricultural Pollution Control Project Includes consideration of proxies…

Presentation: Serbia Danube River Enterprise Pollution Reduction Project

Serbia Danube River Enterprise Pollution Reduction Project (DREPR), Under the World Bank – GEF Investment Fund for Nutrient Reduction in the Black Sea/Danube Basin And coordination of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management - Republic of Serbia

GEF IW Projects Indicators Framework (Merla)

Strategic Partnerships Indicators Presented at the Black Sea – Danube Regional Conference on Nutrient Pollution Control in Chisinau, Moldova – October 2006

Problem of Water Quality Control in the Niger Basin

M. Ould Aly Oumar Niger-HYCOS Project Coordonator Niger Basin Authority, Niamey, NIGER REPUBLIC CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION 2. THE NIGER BASIN AND SUB-REGIONAL COOPERATION 3. RIVER NIGER HYDROLOGY 4. IMPACT OF CLIMATIC CHANGE ON HYDROLOGY 5. PROBLEMATIC OF WATER QUALITY CONTROL WITHIN THE NIGER BASIN 5.1 THE ACTUAL SITUATION 5.2 THE WAYS FORWARD 6. CONCLUSION Presented at the Black Sea – Danube Regional Conference on Nutrient Pollution Control in Chisinau, Moldova – October 2006

Presentation: $ and Sense of Non-point Source Water Pollution in Eastern Europe and USAID/ Moldova Case Study (Latif)

Mohammad A. Latif, P.E. Bureau Environmental Officer USAID Europe and Eurasia Bureau Presented at the Black Sea – Danube Regional Conference on Nutrient Pollution Control in Chisinau, Moldova – October 2006

Presentation on the activities of the Moldova Agricultural Pollution Control Project (Magdill)

Presented at the Black Sea – Danube Regional Conference on Nutrient Pollution Control in Chisinau, Moldova – October 2006

Methodologies to Measure Nutrient Reduction and to Aggregate Results at the Project , National, and Regional Basin Levels (Kanwar)

Ramesh Kanwar Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA and Aaron Zazueta and Jitendra Srivastava Global Environmental Facility and the World Bank 1818 H St. NW Washington D.C. 20433, USA CONTENTS A. Introduction – major sources of nonpoint source pollution B. Key motivators for monitoring – Hypoxia/regulations/EU Nitrate Directive C. Objectives of nutrient reduction programs D. Key water quality or stress indicators for assessment nutrient reduction E. Water quality laws or standards for nutrients for water bodies F. What is current status of science on nutrient reduction? What do we know? F. Developing methods for assessment – local, country, & global level G. Analysis, interpretation, and reporting of data – use of models H. Using Romania example to move from pilot level on to national level as country is willing to borrow 50 m euros to conduct national level assessment H. Discussion Presented at the Black Sea – Danube Regional Conference on Nutrient Pollution Control in Chisinau, Moldova – October 2006

Presentation: Livestock in East Asia Project (Roos)

Kurt Roos World Bank Team Member for Weiguo Zhou – Team Lead Rural Development & Natural Resources Sector Unit East Asia and Pacific Region The World Bank Presented at the Black Sea – Danube Regional Conference on Nutrient Pollution Control in Chisinau, Moldova – October 2006

Moldovan Experience with Nutrient Pollution Control in Agro-Processing

Dr. Alexandru Jolondcovschi, APCP Manager Presented at the Black Sea – Danube Regional Conference on Nutrient Pollution Control in Chisinau, Moldova – October 2006

The Monitoring Strategy in Romania in Line With the WFD: The Nitrate Pollution by the Agriculture Sources

Chem. Elena Tuchiu Dr. Chem. Eng. Marcel Perjoiu NATIONAL ADMINISTRATION “ ROMANIAN WATER” Presented at the Black Sea – Danube Regional Conference on Nutrient Pollution Control in Chisinau, Moldova – October 2006

5th Regional Conference on Nutrient Pollution Control in the Danube-Black Sea Basin

A site to contain outputs stemming from the 5th Regional Conference on Nutrient Pollution Control in the Danube-Black Sea Basin held from 3 to 6 October 2006 in Chisinau, Moldova.

Photos from the 5th Conference on Nutrient Pollution Control in the Danube - Black Sea Basin

This album contains photos from the 5th conference on Nutrient Pollution Control in the Danube - Black Sea Basin, which occurred from 3 October to 6 October 2006 in Chisinau, Moldova.

Moldova Nutrient Pollution Control Draft Rapporteur Summaries and Conclusions

Proceedings from the 5th Regional Conference on Nutrient Pollution Control in the Danube-Black Sea Basin held from 3 to 6 October 2006 in Chisinau, Moldova.

Presentations Given at the 5th Conference on Nutrient Pollution Control in the Black Sea - Danube Basin

 

6th Regional Conference on Nutrient Pollution Control in the Danube-Black Sea Basin

A site to contain outputs stemming from the 6th Regional Conference on Nutrient Pollution Control in the Danube-Black Sea Basin held from 23 to 25 October in Ankara, Turkey.

GEF Presentations at the 4th Nitrogen Conference

IW:LEARN supported three GEF projects (Lake Manzala, Danube Regional and Romania APCP) to the 4th Nitrogen Conference, part of the Global Nitrogen Initiative. This page contains their presentations.

Presentation: Romania Agricultural Pollution Control Project [4th Global Nitrogen Conference] (Nicolau)

Presentation given by Stefan Nicolau on behalf of the Romania Agricultural Pollution Control project at the 4th Nitrogen Conference, part of the Global Nitrogen Initiative.

Turkey Files

Files from the 6th Regional Conference on Nutrient Reduction in the Black Sea - Danube Basin in Ankara, Turkey.

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Nutrient Reduction CoP - Contacts

This page contains contacts in the Constructed Wetlands community of practice.

Nutrient Reduction CoP: Background Materials and Links

This page contains background materials and links for the nutrient reduction CoP: http://www.iwlearn.net/nutrientreduction