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Vienna, 14 June 2011. The ICPDR published a new brochure that gives an overview on the Danube River Basin last week. The publication is not limited to environmental issues alone, but includes facts and figures on a range of topics. It is distributed through the ICPDR and its contracting parties and provided for download below.

ICPDR President for 2011, Mykola Melenevskyi speaks about finding strength for the Danube through its cooperation in the Danube Delta, and the role of the ICPDR in implementing a sustainable strategy for the Danube region.

Partners throughout Danube countries are working together for the same
shared concern and outcome: a stakeholder-oriented flood risk assessment for
the Danube floodplains.

The European Union’s new Strategy for the
Danube brings together policies and structures
to provide new opportunities for sustainable
development in the region.

The Prut River Basin comes into focus this year with greater attention from
Ukraine’s ICPDR Presidency and the three Prut countries working together to
create a sub-basin plan for the second-longest tributary of the Danube.

A proposed regulation would uniformly
limit phosphorous compounds in laundry
detergents, resulting in a major
reduction of pollution loads to the Danube
River and beyond to the Black Sea.

With the new sub-basin management plan for the Tisza, the Tisza Group and the
countries of the Tisza River Basin have achieved significant progress and an outstanding
example of cooperation.

While flood risk management means cooperative planning, countries
around the region are putting ideas into action to protect themselves
against threatening waters.