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Groundwater constitutes the largest reservoir of freshwater in the world, accounting for over 97% of all freshwaters available on earth (excluding glaciers and ice caps). The remaining 3% is composed mainly of surface water (lakes, rivers, wetlands) and soil moisture. By incorporation into the Water Framework Directive (WFD), groundwater became part of an integrated water management system.

In response to the hazard of flooding, the ICPDR adopted the Action Programme for Sustainable Flood Prevention in the Danube River Basin at the ICPDR Ministerial Meeting on 13 December 2004. As a follow-up to this Action Programme, seventeen sub-basin flood action plans were published by the ICPDR in 2009.

ICPDR Danube Watch: 'Get active for the rivers!' was the call for Danube
Day 2010 and was a theme that people took ‘onboard’
and ran with! We danced, sang, canoed,
climbed, swam, cooked, explored and rapped
for the rivers. The river came to the street
and school went to the Danube. We
celebrated by being active and
by taking action.

ICPDR Danube Watch: The ‘Troubled Waters’
exhibition, now making
its way around the world,
captures the wide range of
water challenges – from
floods to droughts.