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Romania Completes Its Portion of Danube Flood Risk Maps

12 Oct 2012 - 08:33 by Local Press Report

BUCHAREST (Act Media) — The Romania Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MMP) announced in a specialized conference the completion of the Atlas of the Danube drainage basin flood hazard and flood risk maps, worked out as

Danube Summit Adopts Declaration on EU Strategy

17 Nov 2010 - 14:48 by Local Press Report

BUCHAREST, Romania (Southeast European) — Participants in a Danube summit in Bucharest last week adopted a declaration on the EU Strategy for the Danube Region. In the document, Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic,

Banat Region Faces Drinking Water Problems

22 Sep 2010 - 14:48 by Local Press Report

SERBIA, BELGRADE (Blic) — The towns ofKikinda, Zrenjanin, Novi Becej, Secanj and others in the Banat region face perpetual drinking water problems. The water there does not meet either chemical or microbiological terms.

EC to Provide $650 Million USD to Serbia for Danube Strategy

28 Jul 2010 - 14:47 by OOSKAnews Correspondent

SERBIA, BELGRADE — The European Commission (EC) on July 21 decided to renew Serbia's Danube Tisa-Danube river system and Belgrade wastewater processing strategy within its own Danube Strategy draft, according to

Romania's Aries River Polluted With Heavy Metals

28 Apr 2010 - 14:47 by OOSKAnews Correspondent

BUCHAREST, Romania — The Aries River in western Romania is polluted with heavy metals, according to Romanian officials. The trans boundary river flows into Hungary's Tisza River.

Bucharest-Danube Canal Could Cost $746 Million USD

21 Oct 2009 - 14:48 by Local Press Report

BUCHAREST, Romania (ACTmedia (Romania)) — A proposed canal linking Danube River to the Romanian capital could cost some $746 million USD, according to Ovidiu Cups a, general manager of the national navigable canals authority ACN.

Danube Not Included in National River Basins Plan

15 Jul 2009 - 14:47 by Local Press Report

Bulgaria, ROUSSE (Black Sea Association of National News Agencies) — The Danube River is not included in the national plan for river basins management, according to the WWF. Of the four water management regions in Bulgaria, the Danube River basin is the

Hungary, Ukraine to Collaborate on Management of Tisza River

3 Jun 2009 - 14:47 by OOSKAnews Correspondent

HUNGARY, BUDAPEST — Hungarian and Ukrainian water management and environmental protection authorities are drafting a plan to preserve

Code Yellow Alert for Danube River

18 Mar 2009 - 14:47 by Local Press Report

BUCHAREST (Financiarul (Romania)) — Romania's National Institute of Hydrology and Water Management has issued a Code Yellow alert for the Gruia -Bechet stretch of the Danube River, due to high flows recorded at the Danube's entry to R

Romania to Resume Bucharest-Danube Canal

3 Dec 2008 - 14:48 by Local Press Report

BUCHAREST, Romania — Romania will resume work on a canal to connect the capital with the Danube River. The government will select a company to build the canal by mid-2010. The project is

Pollution of Sasyk Lake Wrecked Irrigation System in Odessa Region

19 Nov 2008 - 14:48 by OOSKAnews Correspondent

Ukraine, ODESSA — The Parliament of the Odessa region has asked the Ukrainian Cabinet to provide funds from the state budget to construct a canal from the Danube River to the Danube-Dniester irrigation system.

Black Sea at Risk for Ecological Disaster

5 Nov 2008 - 09:14 by OOSKAnews Correspondent

BUCHAREST, Romania — T he Black Sea continues to be heavily polluted by waste flowing from the Danube River.

Marius Postelnicu, the manager of the National Administration Romanian Waters, said

Tisa River Avoids Pollution

6 Aug 2008 - 14:48 by OOSKAnews Correspondent

BUCHAREST, Romania — The Tisa River has avoided becoming polluted by an overflow of mining deposits due to the massive volume of water from the small rivers that flow into it, said Minister of Environment

Romanian Officials Uninterested in River Water Pollution

5 May 2008 - 23:41 by OOSKAnews Correspondent

BUCHAREST, Romania — - Romania is the biggest producer of garbage among all the 27 member states of the European Union (EU), and authorities' failure to enact regulation and sanctions to

Romania Revives Stalled CeausescuEra Canal Project

22 Apr 2008 - 00:04 by OOSKAnews Correspondent

BUCHAREST, Romania — — Construction of the canal meant to connect the Danube, Europe's biggest river, and Romania's capital is expected to start by the end of this year with a total investment worth $712.5 million USD.